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@faun published <function LinkPost.objectify at 0x7fbad07960e0> v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health , 1 month, 1 week ago.
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@faun published <function LinkPost.objectify at 0x7fbad07920e0> Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs , 1 month, 1 week ago.
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@faun published <function LinkPost.objectify at 0x7faf577820e0> Understanding LLMs: Insights from Mechanistic Interpretability , 1 month, 1 week ago.
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@faun published <function LinkPost.objectify at 0x7faf577820e0> Writing an operating system kernel from scratch , 1 month, 1 week ago.
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Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack

A supply chain worm called **Shai-hulud** is loose in the npm wild. It's not just lurking—it’s replicating through npm packages, lifting developer tokens, and injecting tainted versions of real, maintained libraries. Once in, it grabs GitHub secrets, flips private repos public, and piggybacks on Gi..

Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack
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GitHub Copilot Custom Chat Modes: AI Personas that Match Your Needs

GitHub Copilot Chat just jot better in **VS Code 1.101** with **Custom Chat Modes**. Devs can now drop Markdown files into their workspace to shape Copilot’s persona—tone, tools, constraints, the works. Want an AI buddy for security audits? Or a test-writing machine with zero patience for flaky cod..

GitHub Copilot Custom Chat Modes: AI Personas that Match Your Needs
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MCP vulnerability case study: SQL injection in the Postgres MCP server

A nasty SQL injection bug in Anthropic’s now-retiredPostgres MCP serverlet attackers blow past read-only mode and run whatever SQL they wanted. The repo got archived back in May 2025—but it’s far from dead. The unpatched package still racks up21,000 NPM installsand1,000 Docker pullsevery week...

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How In-Memory Caching Works in Redis

Redis isn’t just a cache anymore. Sure, it still owns the in-memory speed game—with **key expiration**, **data persistence**, and **horizontal scaling** via **replication** and **clustering**. But if you're only using it to stash a few keys, you're missing the point. This thing handles **streams**,..

How In-Memory Caching Works in Redis
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Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

Running **open-weight LLMs locally on macOS**? This post breaks it down clean. It compares **llama.cpp**—great for tweaking things—to **LM Studio**, which trades control for simplicity. Covers what fits in memory, which quantized models to grab (hint: 4-bit GGUF), and what’s coming down the pipe: *..

Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS
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TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight

Perl 5 has risen to **10th place in the TIOBE Index**, increasing in popularity even though the exact reason is unknown. Perl 6, or Raku, lags behind Perl 5 in rankings and has not seen the same rise in attention. Other top languages like C and Java have experienced slight falls in rankings...