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bsandro walks through setting up a small NetBSD 11 web server the stock way with the built-in bozohttpd, covering VPS options, running bozohttpd, adding HTTPS with one extra package, and features worth exploring like CGI, Lua scripting and URL rewrites.
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Brennen Puth argues that text-heavy websites should print cleanly, walking through what went wrong when he printed his own blog and the print stylesheet changes he made to hide navigation and other screen-only elements.
3 min · 602 words
OpenAI and Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers.
Techbro Nerd argues that by selling AI coding agents, OpenAI and Anthropic let anyone clone established software, using Adobe versus the vibe-coded ArtCraft as the example, which erodes the enterprise software customers the labs depend on and drives the price of their own product toward zero.
6 min · 1,409 words
Broccoli2Shell: the Brotli decoder bug (CVE-2026-111497)
A write-up of CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in Google's reference C Brotli decoder that can lead to code execution in Node.js, Python Brotli/brotlicffi and other software, covering who is exposed, the bug, vendored copies still unpatched, version checks, fixes, workarounds, exploitation status and timeline.
7 min · 1,710 words
Be Aware of What's in Your Logs
Prompted by a bug report that came with a log full of things the developer never wanted to see, fireborn explains how log files can contain screen text, messages, account identifiers, file paths and more, and urges users to check what they share and developers to provide clear warnings, safe defaults and privacy-respecting ways to report problems.
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Is PHP Quietly Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It
Gregory Alexander walks ColdFusion and Lucee admins on Windows/IIS through using PowerShell to find out whether a forgotten PHP install is lurking on their server, and how to safely remove its IIS handler mappings, FastCGI entries and files if nothing depends on it.
8 min · 1,906 words
Go 1.28 HTTP/2 Parking: Measuring Memory Savings
Mohammad Abdolirad benchmarks the HTTP/2 connection parking change in Go 1.28 with 5,000 idle connections, finding the same server binary used 85 to 93 MiB less RSS with parking enabled, with fewer goroutines and less stack memory, and discusses why HeapAlloc told a less simple story and the limits of the test.
5 min · 1,204 words
Dessa: the conversation model trained only on speech
Block's small Dessa research lab introduces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch only on human conversation audio, with no text or pretrained models, that listens and talks at once and picks up emotion, laughter and timing.
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OBS Studio 33.0 updates the Chromium Embedded Framework behind browser sources and docks from the 2024 build to September 2026, overhauls plugin loading with new folder locations, improves source snapping in the preview, and ships many other features and fixes for the open-source streaming and recording app.
4 min · 839 words
Building Java ME Apps with Modern Tooling
ROllerozxa walks through building Java ME (J2ME) apps for old feature phones with modern tooling: OpenJDK 8, MicroEmulator stub JARs for the CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0 APIs, compiling with javac, packaging the JAR, preverifying with ProGuard, getting it onto a phone, and the platform's limitations.
7 min · 1,668 words
What is the most overrated career right now? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 31% picked Social Media Influencer. See every answer and who dissented.
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Distributed data, centralized fixes
After a week of breaches and vulnerabilities (Railway, Zeabur, eMudhra, PHP, GitLab, LiteLLM and more), Miren's Paul Hinze sorts the incidents into three structural shapes - concentrated secrets, fragmented patching and hijacked update channels - and explains how Miren's self-hostable design aims to keep data distributed while centralizing fixes.
6 min · 1,278 words
Stella Wilson argues France's rising sovereign bond yields and fiscal deadlock can be explained by her SSRN paper with Johan Båge, "Pinning the Wage to Scarcity and Technology", which separates returns from real growth from returns on scarcity, and makes the case for land value taxation.
2 min · 415 words
Introducing the HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Chrome announces an origin trial for the experimental HTML-in-Canvas API, which lets developers draw live DOM content into a 2D canvas or WebGL/WebGPU texture while keeping it interactive and accessible, with examples, use cases and resources.
9 min · 1,983 words
Forecasting Financial Markets with Timestral
Philipp D. Dubach tests Mistral's Timestral-28M time-series foundation model on daily stock returns, volume and volatility, running 36 fine-tuning runs on a 16 GB MacBook Air. The original model cut stock volume forecast error by 4.7%, but fine-tuning and return forecasts showed no clear edge.
10 min · 2,233 words
Renaming an evaluation criterion in Insacheck: what should stay stable?
A source-based feature review of criterion labels, stable score identifiers, and inactive items in Insacheck, with a small test plan before changing the next evaluation round.
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The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition)
Charles Miller recounts, as a bystander in the room, how the Hibernate Java persistence library grew out of work at Sydney company Cirrus Technologies around 2001, why its root package was cirrus.inf, and how it came to be released under the LGPL.
5 min · 1,066 words
Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state
Christopher Schnick of XPipe details the pitfalls of shipping the JDK's new ahead-of-time (AOT) cache in a real desktop application distributed to users: how training runs and cache creation work, conditions under which the cache is silently ignored, JVM crashes caused by CPU feature mismatches between build and user machines, and the build scripts XPipe now uses to roll it out safely.
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Introducing MCP Events in Mastra
Mastra adds experimental MCP events: MCP servers can now emit real-time events such as failed deploys, merged pull requests or new signups to connected clients via push, poll or webhook delivery, using defineEvent(), .emit() and .subscribe() without a separate pub/sub service, and agents and workflows can react to them. Requires @mastra/mcp 2.5.0 and @mastra/core 1.79.0.
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Giving Cloud Agents Production Access with OIDC, Not Secrets
Formal engineer Aditya Saligrama explains how the company lets cloud coding agents such as Cursor and Devin query production data and cloud infrastructure without long-lived secrets: the agents act as OIDC issuers, and Formal grants each session short-lived, read-only, policy-controlled and auditable access tied to the engineer, repository and run.
8 min · 1,799 words