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llm-gemini 0.36

Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and…

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model…

Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 pays close attention to who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to the existing structure when the prompt said nothing about ownership or…

Yonkers Rises

Tool: Yonkers Rises I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude Fable 5.2's 3D modeling and animation…

Django Security Releases Issued: 6.1.3, 6.0.10, and 5.2.19

django-mcpz: Easy Peasy MCP Servers in Django

django-ses: Django Backend for Amazon’s Simple Email Service

Soft Delete in Django Without Making a Mess

PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #760: Type Checkers, Claude Code Hooks, MarkItDown, and More (2026-11-10)

#760 – NOVEMBER 10, 2026 View in Browser » How a Python Type Checker Decides a Variable Is Unused A variable is unused only if no read resolves to its binding and in Python that read can sit inside a nested function or…

#504 Who turned the GIL back on?

Topics covered in this episode: PyPI's redesigned project pages now warn when provenance changes gilguard catches the import that turns the GIL back on pip 26.3: pylock extras, and pip says plainly that untrusted wheels…

A Free React Curriculum — 131 Chapters, From `useState` to Custom Renderers

Most React tutorials stop at the same place: useState, useEffect, props, maybe context. Then they stop. The real questions come after that. Why does my component re-render? What happens during the commit phase? How does…

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (curl, dpdk, glibc, kernel, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs22, nodejs24, nodejs:18, nodejs:22, patch, qt5, qt5-qtdeclarative, ruby, ruby4.0, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, squid:4, tomcat,…

4 useEffect Mistakes Almost Every React Dev Makes (I Ran Them All in React 19)

useEffect is the most misused hook in React. Most of the time the bug isn't obvious: the component looks fine, until your API gets hammered or the wrong user's data shows up on screen. I took four common mistakes, ran…

Mastering Advanced Server-Side Caching Patterns in Next.js

Originally published on tamiz.pro. Next.js ships with a sophisticated, multi-layered caching system that can be a superpower or a footgun. The default behavior—automatic static optimization, fetch caching, and…

Shopify Checkout Customisation by Plan: What Developers Can Build Without Plus (and What Needs It)

Sooner or later a merchant asks for something inside checkout: a delivery-date picker, a gift message, a rule that hides a payment method for certain orders, a wholesale discount nobody sells as an app. The first…

How X (Twitter) is rebuilding its web app

#​810 — November 10, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly How X (Twitter) is Rebuilding Its Web App — X is replacing 3 servers with one app built on React, Vite and Fastify. Yagiz, famed for his performance work on…