What year is it again? 26? I haven't left the terminal long enough to notice — my system clock drifted and I only just caught it. Anyway, hello to all the engineers out there, junior and senior, and of course to my fellow Linux nerds. In this post I...

Most competitor monitoring tools have the same flaw. They tell you something changed, then hand the thinking back to you. You get a red-highlighted diff in your inbox. A rival's pricing page moved. Great. Was it a real price change, or did they swap...

Can AI meaningfully assist in security testing, or is it just a hype? In this post, I walk through a concrete example: using Claude Code to run the same IDOR, authentication, and CSRF test cases you'd normally run manually with Burp Suite, and look a...

One thing I discovered today is that before Kubernetes can decide what you're allowed to do, it first needs to know who you are. That means there are two separate steps: 1. Authentication – Proving your identity using a client certificate. 2. Autho...

Kore.ai1's engineering team doesn't write most of their code anymore. Two AI agents do. And the only reason that works on a production codebase is a governance harness they spent more than a year building from scratch. Prasanna Arikala, CTO and Head...

Or, why AI systems fail in surprisingly familiar ways. With the introduction of AI-assisted coding tools and agents, many people were hoping we’d solve all the problems of human teams. Without the people, politics, and personalities software deliver...

Originally published on uptimepage.devhttps://uptimepage.dev/blog/email-bombing-uptime-pages. I build an uptime monitoring tool. Part of my job is to attack it before someone else does. This post is about one attack that most people in this space do...

The Crash You pull down a fresh React Native repo, or you upgrade your Expo project, navigate to your /ios directory, and run your standard installation command: pod install Instead of a clean build, your terminal drops a wall of text pointing t...

If you have built anything data-heavy in Svelte or SvelteKit, you know the grid problem. Your options usually collapse into two: Wrap a React grid AG Grid and friends and fight the framework boundary forever. Go fully headless TanStack Table and han...

There's a hidden switch in Python that can cut your object's memory by 50% — and break your code in five different ways. Here's the full story. The Moment of Discovery You're profiling a Python service. Memory usage is climbing. You check the heap...

In Part 1, we learned what slots is and why it saves memory. Now let's talk about why it can destroy your architecture — and the five traps that catch every developer who uses it without reading the fine print. Trap 1: No Dynamic Attributes — Ever ...

You're parked at a gorgeous campsite, the kind of spot you drove six hours to reach, and the moment you try to hop on a work call or stream a show, your satellite dish decides it doesn't like the tree cover, the cloud cover, or honestly just your gen...

The Soft Target: Why Eastern Europe Is the Testing Ground for the Next Wave of Cognitive Warfare Part two of the Cognitive Warfare series. Part one, "The Same War, A Faster Engine," argued that influence operations and the dark web underground have m...

Most of my API checks are embarrassingly small. Is staging up? Does this endpoint still return the field the frontend expects? Did the auth header fix actually deploy? For work that small, opening Postman feels like bringing a truck to carry one groc...

?> Schema Markup Guide: Using JSON-LD to Win Rich Results February 2026 16 min read I’m Jacob Campbell, and schema markup is one of the most underused SEO wins out there — it’s how you turn a plain blue link into a r...

GEO dashboards that track 'best pagespeed monitoring tool 2026' and plans that only watch three homepages share one flaw: inputs with no buyer context. Agencies copy the mistake in two channels. The agency Slack channel had two screenshots in the sa...