A developer cracked Kindle Cloud Reader’s font obfuscation, sidestepping randomized glyph swaps withSVG renderingandSSIM-powered perceptual hashingto rebuild actual EPUBs. Amazon rotates font mappings every five pages, using finicky micro-paths to jam scrapers and derail OCR. It wasn’t enough. Syste..

Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools likePre-Commit,Husky, anddevenvare trying to fix that.devenvstands out—hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts...

A former engineering leader lays out a no-nonsense framework for tracking team output without turning into Big Brother. Think:daily Slack updates,weekly GitHub changelogs,tight 1:1s,demo-fueled All-Hands, andauto-verified deploys. It leans onpublic artifacts, not peeking over shoulders - and puts th..

A plain-oldgit repo on an SSH-accessible servercan double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in somegit hooks- like apost-receive- and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things. Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline...

The 2025 State of AI Report just landed—China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels. AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate plannin..

Docker just made debugging Dockerfiles inVS Codefeel like real development. With the latest Docker extension and Docker Desktop update, you can now set breakpoints, step through builds with F10/F11, poke at variables, and mess with the container’s file system mid-build...

The Kubernetes Gateway API leveled up - unifying North-South, East-West, and egress traffic with standard CRDs likeGRPCRoute,HTTPRoute, andReferenceGrant. In a Linkerd world, that means clean, declarative canary releases, granular egress control to outside APIs (say, Mistral AI), and clearer lines b..

Running RKE2 with Cilium and MetalLB in a lightweight Podman VM on macOS enables experimentation with Kubernetes. Unique network challenges require SSH port forwarding for service exposure...

Seven ways folks trip over Kubernetes - each more avoidable than the last. Top offenses: skippingresource requests/limits, forgettinghealth probes, trustingephemeral logsthat vanish when you need them. Reusing configs across dev and prod? Still a bad idea. Pushing off observability until it’s on fir..

AWS shows how to wire upArgo CDwithAWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)to automateEKS Pod Identityfor IAM roles - GitOps-style. The catch? The Pod Identity API has a lag. So they bolt on apre-deployment validation jobto wait-and-confirm that the IAM role's actually bound before app pods come online...