My obituary for programming
My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you…
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Considerations or quirks for direct Vec<u8> file writing/reading
I'm working on a program that will involve storing struct instances in data files, and so far have a working process of serialization, writing, reading, and de-serialization directly manipulating the Vec<u8> buffers (I…
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2026! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2026. Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community: Aldo Caneo LinkedIn, GitHub…
Code coverage ignore comments
Would like to see an option to add comments to exclude certain lines of code from code coverage like this... println!("Loading..."); let response: ResponseType = match api_lib::get().await { Ok(response) => response,…
Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E26 - dev2Next, Native JSON and a Week of New Models
Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest from the Spring ecosystem. We’re back from Dev2Next with a recap. Dan shows off two things he built last week. One is Kiln, a warm new theme for IntelliJ. The other is a…
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 546: Adaptive Heap Sizing for ZGC
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 546: Adaptive Heap Sizing for ZGC
Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 28, Azul Payara, Gatherers4j, Google ADK, Yupiik, Apache Camel CVEs
This week's Java roundup for October 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 28; the October 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Gatherers4j, Yupiik Fusion, Google ADK for…
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Startup configuration files
Learn how to use startup configuration files to run package entry points when the Python interpreter starts up. A startup configuration file is a file with the extension .start. Starting from Python 3.15, the Python…
Local-first photo editing in the browser: what the pipeline split actually looks like
If you build anything in the browser that touches user photos, you eventually run into the same wall: the cheap operations want to be local, and the expensive ones cannot be. Here is how I ended up splitting the…
Como ler e inspecionar arquivos Apache Parquet no navegador sem backend
Se você trabalha com engenharia de dados, analytics ou pipelines em Python/Spark, com certeza já precisou dar uma olhada rápida na estrutura ou em algumas linhas de um arquivo .parquet e teve que abrir um notebook…
How We Built a 100% Client-Side C2PA Metadata Scrubber, Invisible Unicode Cleaner & NotebookLM Bundler in the Browser
As AI workflows matured in 2026, three technical bottlenecks hit developers, creators, and enterprise teams simultaneously: Binary C2PA & JUMBF Provenance Flags: Even minor edits using Photoshop Generative Fill or…
The DELETE Route Checked Ownership. GET Didn't. (BOLA Write-up)
A BOLA vulnerability in OopsSec Store's wishlist API lets any logged-in user read anyone else's private wishlist, including an admin one that contains the flag. The wishlist API on OopsSec Store authenticates users but…
Build a Voice-Powered Accessibility Tool
Why Voice‑Powered Accessibility Matters If you’ve ever watched a video with no subtitles, tried to read an article on a mobile screen, or used a screen reader that sounded robotic, you’ll understand how frustrating it…
I deleted my Rust helper and moved zip extraction into the browser. Here's what it cost.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about LinkUnzip, a Chrome extension that pulls files out of a zip on the internet without downloading the zip. It reads the zip's table of contents with an HTTP Range request, then…
How to Build a Pronunciation Guide App with AI Voice
Why a Pronunciation Guide App? If you’ve ever tried to learn a new language, you know how frustrating it can be to hear a word in a textbook and have no clue how it actually sounds. A pronunciation guide app solves that…
Two .npmrc Lines That Stop npm Supply Chain Worms (Tested on npm 10, 11 and 12)
Every npm install trusts hundreds of strangers at once, and the worms going around npm this year exploit two things in particular: lifecycle scripts that run during the install, and versions published minutes before you…
Cannot Read Properties of Undefined (Reading 'bind'): The Fix
Originally published on CoreMesh. Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'bind') means your code ran something.bind(...) and something was undefined at that moment. The word in quotes is the property the engine…
Playwright recorded my 25 fps animation at about 9. The fix was to stop recording.
I needed a short video of my portfolio for LinkedIn: the opening animation, a swordsman who cuts the screen in two, then a fast scroll through every section. Playwright records video in one option, so I started there.…
Why I built a lightweight, ad-free QR Scanner using Web Technologies
As a developer, I’ve always been fascinated by how we can solve daily problems with simple web tools. One such problem I encountered was the "QR Scanner Struggle." Most of the QR scanner apps available today are…
The provider still bills the open STT socket after the browser hangs up
Gladia bills the upstream live WebSocket by wall clock. A Socket.IO blip can drop the browser while that job is still open. On detach the service flushes provider cost and user billing, then sets socketDetached.…
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