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How to steal npm publish tokens by opening GitHub issues

Attackers pushed a poisonedcline@2.3.0to npm using a stolen publish token. ItspostinstallinstalledOpenClawglobally. An AI triage bot let a malicious issue title trickClaudeinto running commands on a GitHub Actions runner. It wrote a poisonedactions/cacheentry. The nightly release restored the poison.. read more  

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Things I miss about Spring Boot after switching to Go

The author migrated fromJava/Spring BoottoGolang. Spring bundlesSecurity,Data,Actuator, and auto-wiring. Go prefers minimalist libraries and explicit wiring. It produces static binaries, instant startup, lower memory use, and nativegoroutineconcurrency. Spring needs JVM startup and GC tuning... read more  

Things I miss about Spring Boot after switching to Go
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Interview with Thomas Wouters - release Manager for Python

The interview traces Python's core evolution. It starts with addingaugmented assignment(+=) and thePEP 203debates. Arguments followed. Nested scopeslanded viafuture imports. Maintainers repackagedelementtree/xmlplususingpath. asynciorose and supplantedTwisted. Python moved toyearly releases... read more  

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Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?

The post catalogs recentWebAssemblyextensions:shared memory,SIMD,exceptions,tail calls,64-bit memory,GC,bulk memory,multiple returns, andreference types. It arguesWebAssemblyremains a second-class web language. MessyJS glueand arcane loading keep it there. The post pushes theWebAssembly Component Mo.. read more  

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The real cost of random I/O

Therandom_page_costwas introduced ~25 years ago, and its default value has remained at 4.0 since then. Recent experiments suggest that the actual cost of reading a random page may be significantly higher than the default value, especially on SSDs. Lowering therandom_page_costmay not always be the be.. read more  

The real cost of random I/O
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Why I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux

After a year onNixOS, the author reverted toArch Linux. They blamed frequent breakage, rebuild loops, and unpredictable regressions after updates. They flaggedNixOS's reproducible config,isolated builds, and multi-generation installs. These swell disk use, force wideglibcrebuilds, and make updates s.. read more  

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Podman fixed every problem I had with Docker, and I switched in an afternoon

Author swappedDockerforPodman. The swap revealed CLI parity and minor networking and volume tweaks. Podmaneschews a centraldaemon. It runs containers as system processes and defaults torootlessviauser namespaces. That cuts privilege exposure and trims baseline overhead... read more  

Podman fixed every problem I had with Docker, and I switched in an afternoon
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Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

Kubernetes launched theAI Gateway Working Group. It will add standards and declarative APIs to make networking play nice with AI workloads and extend theGateway API. Active proposals attack two gaps.Payload processinginspects and transforms full HTTP payloads using declarative configs, ordered pipel.. read more  

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When Kubernetes Is the Wrong Default

The guide mapsteam size,workload shape, andtime-to-valueto three tiers:managed platforms,VMs, andKubernetes. It calls outKubernetesbluntly: expect a 1–3 month delay to production. Expect ongoing consumption of 30–50% of one engineer. It only pays off for multi-region setups, complex networking, or t.. read more  

When Kubernetes Is the Wrong Default
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Agentic payments are coming. Is your company ready?

Google'sChromeadded native support forUniversal Commerce Protocol (UCP). That letsGeminiagents execute agentic payments and pause for user confirmation. Merchants and platforms such asPayPal,Amazon Rufus, andHome Depotran agentic commerce pilots.PayPalimplementedUCPsupport. Agent scraping and protoc.. read more  

Agentic payments are coming. Is your company ready?
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