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My first steps with Playwright. PostgreSQL for everything. Goodbye to IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition after 16 years! I scraped 25K comments to find which AI tools actually make people money or save time . MIT says AI isn’t replacing you… it’s just wasting your boss’s money. Saying NO is not a free action in the world of software engineering. Researcher Unearths Thousands of Leaked Secrets in GitHub’s "Oops Commits". Making a font of my handwriting. Oldest recorded transaction. What Are Python Asterisk and Slash Special Parameters For? Python is Dying and Nobody Wants to Admit It. crosspost. Building a Runtime JAR inspector in 10 hours.

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Developer Relations Foundation. Ces recruteurs qui agacent les candidats. The Real Cost of Poor Documentation for Developers. What are OKLCH colors? Everything I know about good API design. How to Name Your Span Attributes. New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.34 Release. DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation. The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time. Pogocache: Open Source Caching Software with Low Latency and Multiple Wire Protocols.

Feedback from calling Rust from Python. Simplifying Code: migrating from Reactive to Virtual Threads. The four horsemen of a dying career (and the shields that protect you). Apache Fory™ Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project. Note from Teemu, Tim, and Torin to the Open Policy Agent community. Understanding Perses: Open Standards for Observability Dashboarding in CNCF. A Better Vocabulary for Testing. The Hidden Forces Shaping Our Systems: Cognitive Biases in Software Development. How to Name Your Spans. Microsoft Admits: US Law Supersedes Canadian Sovereignty. Architectural Patterns, The Pattern Language of SoftwareArchitecture. Typosquatting a package? How about typosquatting the whole registry!.

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: SWT. This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur Rust Developers. Stop Using the Wrong CNI in 2025: Flannel vs Calico vs Cilium. New Rust Client Enables Building Safe, High-Performance Apps with Aerospike. Soft Assertions with AssertJ. I Built a Ballistic Missile Defense Simulator in a Browser. EU Commission Reactivates Bug Bounties. Sneaky git commits. No digital sovereignty without open source, warns OSBA. Announcing Crossplane 2.0. Looks Good to Me. Purity: A Kotlin Compiler Plugin for determining and enforcing Pure and Readonly functions.

A tentative comparison of fault tolerance libraries on the JVM. 5 Grafana in Docker examples to get started with metrics, logs, and traces. Navigating Consistency in Distributed Systems: Choosing the Right Trade-Offs. Do not Kick against the Pricks. So you want to parse a PDF? If you had to start over…​ The enshittification of tech jobs. Koalas vs. Crows: An Evolutionary Theory of Software. Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog. I Asked AI to Build an App. It Made a Database Roasting Bot. We’re All Doomed.. Next level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4. HTTP is not simple.

BlockHound: how it works. Dumb pipe. How I fixed my blog’s performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin. The Ultimate Guide to Git Branching Strategies. Reverse Proxy Deep Dive Part 3: The Hidden Complexity of Service Discovery. Working with the new Idempotency Keys RFC. StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey. Atomic Habits for Developers. Partner with the AI, throw away the code. PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril. The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade.

In defense of XML. "Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers. Critical Container Registry Security Flaw: How Multi-Architecture Manifests Create Attack Vectors. Policy-Driven Cost Optimization with Open Policy Agent and Kubernetes. Writing a Technical Book for Manning. Deeper theories of program design. git-branchless. The Structure of a PDF File. API Standards ARE Data Standards. Building Telemetry Pipelines with the OpenTelemetry Collector. Evolution of HTTP. What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? Reverse Proxy Deep Dive Part 2: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks. Why Japanese Developers Write Code Completely Differently (And Why It Works Better).