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Pre-mortem method: a facilitation guide for teams
For me, the pre-mortem method is the most underrated meeting in everyday project work. We all run retrospectives, and most teams now hold postmortems after incidents. Both share the same catch, though: they happen once the damage is done. A pre-mortem flips the order. Before…
PAN-OS CVE-2026-0321: what an unauthenticated dataplane DoS actually breaks
PAN-OS CVE-2026-0321: what an unauthenticated dataplane DoS actually breaks A firewall that stops forwarding traffic is not a firewall. CVE-2026-0321 in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS does exactly that, and it does not ask for credentials first. The flaw in one paragraph The CVE Record published…
SlothDesk AI: The Anti-Burnout Desktop Operating Suite That Rewards Laziness (Powered by Google Gemma 2)
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Tomorrow, October 20, is International Sloth Day . In modern developer culture, sloths are often misunderstood as "lazy." In evolutionary biology, however, sloths ( Bradypus tridactylus )…
Sloth Mode: a game you win by moving slowly
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady . What I Built Sloth Mode is a webcam game where a sloth climbs a vine only while you move slowly and smoothly. Rush, and the sloth holds on while…
Why I Prefer string.Empty Over null! in Input DTOs
Small coding choices can make software easier to understand and maintain. One example in C# is how we initialize string properties in DTOs. A DTO —Data Transfer Object— carries data between parts of an application. For example, it might carry a customer’s name from an…
Forex WebSocket Integration: Stream EUR/USD Quotes with Node.js and Recover After Disconnects
Forex WebSocket Integration: Stream EUR/USD Quotes with Node.js and Recover After Disconnects Abstract: A live forex display needs a client that authenticates, subscribes to the right quote channel, and restores that subscription after a disconnect. A server-side Node.js collector can do this while keeping credentials…
The Forensic Layer: Why Automated Decisions Need a Court-Admissible Record
October 25, 2026 On October 15th, the 44% problem was named: the reality that nearly half of all ransomware attacks now exploit a victim's own AI agents. That report did not create a new problem. It exposed an old one. The problem is not that…
From Source Code to a Running Pod
The road from a source file to a Service At the end of Part 2 , the cluster in our VM could run any image that somebody had already built and published, as it did with the nginx web server. The step that remains is…
A Kubernetes Cluster of Your Own
From running a container to keeping it running In the module on containerization we ran containers with Docker, one command at a time, and watched each one start, answer a request, and stop. That way of working is perfect for a developer's laptop and hopeless…
A Computer Inside Your Computer
Why we begin with an empty machine In the second or third week of almost every programming course that asks students to run real infrastructure, the room divides in two. Half the class has a working setup and has already moved on to the exercise,…
Deep dive into the C++ Passkey idiom
1. Motivation: The Problem with friend In C++, friend is a double-edged sword. If you allow your friend to touch you inappropriately, that would be hurt. If class A befriends another class B , then everything in A becomes visible to B . friend grants…
ESP32-C6 vs ESP32-C3: Wi-Fi 6 y Thread, ¿vale la pena el cambio?
Publicado originalmente en iot.gripe . El ESP32-C3 es el chip barato de Espressif para nodos sencillos. El ESP32-C6 es su sucesor directo: mismo tipo de CPU (RISC-V), pero con Wi-Fi 6 y una segunda radio para Thread y Zigbee . ¿Compensa pagar más por él?…
Sloth Digest: I Taught Gemma to Read My Group Chats So I Don’t Have To
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Sloth Digest is a small web app that reads your group chats so you don't have to. You paste in a noisy chat from WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram…
Beyond Prompting: Using Diátaxis, C4, and Decision Tables for Clearer Documentation
How established standards, frameworks, and notations help us structure knowledge for humans and AI agents. On October 2, 2026, Andrej Karpathy suggested several ways to make language-model output easier to understand . One was to ask for explanations in ASD-STE100, the controlled language developed for…
LazyMate AI: Turn Study Notes into a Study Pack with Local AI
Students spend a lot of time preparing summaries, revision questions, and study notes. I wanted to build a simple tool that could help students do these tasks more easily. That is how I built LazyMate AI , a lightweight AI study assistant powered by the…
Why We Moved a Fan-Out Operation to Temporal
A quick note before this starts: we use an internal library that wraps Temporal , fully managed by the backend team at the company I work at. So this isn't a Temporal API tutorial, there are no workflow/activity code snippets here. This is the story…
How to accept crypto payments on your own server with Docker
Most guides to taking crypto in a web shop start with "sign up for a processor". You paste an API key, the processor hosts the checkout, and the money lands in an account they control until they pay you out. That works, but it means…
Night Butler: You Sleep, Your Second Brain Works the Night Shift 🦥🌙
You sleep. Your second brain works the night shift. Every morning I used to re-read yesterday's chat history to remember what my AI assistant had learned, what was still pending, and what I was supposed to do today. Night Butler does that while I sleep…
NoticeCatcher: Qwen3-8B Finds the Deadlines in a WhatsApp Group, and Plain Code Picks the Dates
* This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Every class has that WhatsApp group. 300 messages a day, memes, "ok sir", "who has the notes?" and somewhere in the middle, one message with the…
How to Write a Job Description That Attracts the Right Candidates (2026): Title, Summary, Responsibilities and Requirements
Full disclosure: my team built a job description tool, so I'm biased. The structure below works in any doc. TL;DR A good job description is short, specific and honest about what the job is. Write for the person you want to apply. Use a plain…
SlothScript: Automating My Code Reviews Locally with Gemma so I Can Be Lazier
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Meet SlothScript —a lightweight, local CLI script that automatically reviews my git diffs and writes my commit messages or pull request summaries for me. As developers, writing…
Scoring Text Similarity With Embeddings, With a Deterministic Offline Fallback for Tests
I keep running into the same wall when I add embedding-based checks to a project: the moment a test needs a real embedding, it needs a network call and an API key. That makes the test slow, flaky, and impossible to run in a fork's…
The Attacker's Mindset (Part 1/3): Foundations of Offensive Security
This is part 1 of a 3-part series about a hands-on offensive security training I gave at the Algérie Télécom Skills Center in Saïda, as part of the 7-77 Digital Skills Programme: three sessions in one week, from "what is a request?" to finding and…
JavaScript Coding Standards: Best Practices for Clean, Maintainable Code
Writing JavaScript that works is one thing; writing JavaScript that other developers can understand, maintain, and extend is another. As applications grow, inconsistent naming, duplicated logic, unclear functions, and unpredictable error handling can turn a simple codebase into a maintenance challenge. JavaScript coding standards provide…
Category Page vs. Product Page: How I Fixed Keyword Cannibalization on a Dubai E-commerce Site
Every developer who has built an online store has seen this at least once: you search for an exact product name, and Google shows the category page instead of the product page you wanted to rank. That is what happened on a Dubai e-commerce store…
How We Cut Postgres p95 Latency from 914ms to 2ms (Serverless vs. Docker + PgBouncer)
Serverless PostgreSQL is phenomenal for shipping fast. Branching, automatic scaling, and zero maintenance make it an easy default when spinning up a new Node.js backend. Until you inspect your tail latencies in production. When we audited our API telemetry, our p95 query latency was sitting…
I Built xph: Write JSX Components, Ship Native PHP
TL;DR: I built xph , an open-source compiler that lets you write Astro-like components with typed props, scoped CSS, and PHP server-side logic, then compiles them into native PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Build with Node.js. Run with PHP. No Node.js runtime required in production. Why…
Random was unfair and my compass arrow was wrong: two fixes in a daily geography game
DailyGeo is a daily geography guessing game in English, French, Spanish and German. Everyone gets the same mystery capital (or country, in the second mode) each day. You type a guess and each clue column compares it to the answer: distance, compass direction, population, currency…
Your Agent Wrote a Great Report. Now Give Me the Actual File.
Agents are very good at producing text. Users, annoyingly, want files. Nobody's boss has ever said "great work, paste the chat transcript into the board pack." They want a Word document, a spreadsheet they can sort, a deck they can present and a PDF they…
Automation ROI: A Developer's Guide to Replacing Manual Processes
Every small business runs on manual glue work: retyping orders, chasing invoices, copying numbers into reports. As developers, we see the cost clearly — not just in hours, but in the bugs that manual steps introduce. Business process automation is the fix, but only when…