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A long read traces Finger from a 1971 Stanford time-sharing tool to its modern small-web revival. The protocol on port 79 powered the first microblog and served the first IoT device. It survived the Morris worm, and clie…
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Laravel Chores, a package by Amr Lotfy Saleh, wraps one-off data operations in batches that checkpoint progress to the database after every batch. An interrupted run resumes where it stopped. Inspired by Shopify's mainte…
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The serversideup/php v4.6.0-beta1 images introduce a CADDY_ACME_PROFILE variable that selects Let's Encrypt's shortlived profile, the only profile under which IP-address certificates are issued. A FrankenPHP container re…
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Lerd is a free, MIT-licensed local development environment for Linux and macOS that positions itself against Laravel Herd. It offers per-project PHP versions, trusted HTTPS on .test domains, a debugging dashboard, worktr…
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A SharePoint to SQL Server migration went sideways when a developer mapped a SQL Server float column to .NET float instead of double. SharePoint stores Number fields as doubles, so large 10-digit customer numbers lost th…
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Fabien Sanglard dissects the 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM, which shipped encrypted versions of id's entire catalogue. Cracking group GNOMON needed only 39 days, because the unlock tool on the disc generated the serial loc…
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A community piece previews the next major version of DuckDB, the in-process analytical database popular with data engineers. Worth a read for anyone running DuckDB in production or evaluating it, since a major version bu…
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Desktopcolors.com catalogs every solid background color ever shipped by desktop operating systems, from Windows 1.0's dithered cyan to KDE Plasma 6's Breeze blue. The open-source archive currently holds 194 colors across…
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Worth reading for Simon Willison's hands-on account of Alibaba's new Apache-2 licensed Qwen 3.8 27B, run locally on a MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. He documents strong coding-agent and bounding-box performance, bu…
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Chris Staecker restored a well-preserved Digi-Comp I, a mechanical educational toy computer released in 1963 by E.S.R. Programmed by sliding tubes on rails that trigger spring-loaded levers via a manual clock switch, the…
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NativePHP v4 introduces SuperNative, a beta mode that compiles Blade components directly into SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android, skipping web views entirely. Simon Hamp and Shane Rosenthal unveiled it at a 10…
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In a new Daily WTF feature, editor Remy Porter argues no ticket-tracking tool is truly good, and ranks Jira among the worst. A reader named Klinsten shares a workflow diagram so tangled, with transition labels mixing Dut…
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Calgary writer Brennan Kenneth Brown argues the largely retired job title 'webmaster' deserves a comeback, not as an AI orchestrator but as anyone who builds and runs their own site by hand. His essay traces the term fro…
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Buf has released LSP support for Protocol Buffers, bringing IDE features like completion, navigation and diagnostics to .proto files. The announcement, discussed on r/programming, also drew comments on Buf's pricing: 36 …
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Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has drawn a line between pull request descriptions and comments in source code. One is a sales pitch aimed at the reviewer, the other is lasting documentation for whoever comes next. The di…
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Ukrainian military intelligence says it recovered an Nvidia Jetson Orin NX 16GB module from the wreckage of a Russian S-71M Monochrome cruise missile, suggesting AI-assisted targeting. Nvidia left Russia in 2022, before …
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A Laravel News tutorial walks through Laravel 13.25's image read path: Image now implements Responsable, so routes can return transformed images directly, with correct Content-Type. It also covers the new public toFormat…
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DeepSeek has released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source (MIT) agent harness where every capability — models, tools, sessions, sandboxes, storage, scheduling, even the UI — is a swappable plugin buil…
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The latest Error'd column on The Daily WTF collects reader-submitted software blunders: a jackpot ad full of zeroes, a SignUpGenius dialog declaring success an illusion, a PHP crash leaking through redaction, and The Reg…
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Ryan Dahl has released Durable Objects as open-source technology, decoupling them from Cloudflare's platform. This move enables developers to deploy stateful, globally-distributed computing workloads independently, expan…
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A PHP developer inherited a project where repeated curl requests were properly initialized and executed but their results were never stored or used. The code block appeared copy-pasted throughout the codebase, with param…
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Laravel 13.25 introduces a global queue pause mechanism to prevent workers from reserving new jobs during deployments. The feature uses queue:pause --all and queue:resume --all commands, or Queue::pauseAll() and Queue::r…
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Tailscale's investigation into data corruption issues led to the discovery of a long-dormant bug in SQLite's write-ahead log (WAL) checkpoint mechanism. A race condition during WAL reset under specific concurrent conditi…
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Dr. Tim King, whose Tripos multitasking system became AmigaDOS, has died at the end of July. A Cambridge PhD holder and founder of Perihelion, King shaped early microcomputer OS design and remains a pivotal figure in Ami…
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Laravel 13.25 replaces the concurrent process runner in artisan dev with @laravel/multiplex, a terminal UI that isolates output from the development server, queue worker, Pail, and Vite into separate tabs. Three display …
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Laravel 13.25 introduces global pause/resume for all queues across connections via queue:pause --all and Queue::pauseAll(). The artisan dev command now uses @laravel/multiplex for a tabbed terminal interface with per-pro…
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A new developer at a software company discovers her manager has forbidden branching and pull requests, claiming they waste time and violate CI principles. Her teammates quietly ignore this rule and work with branches any…
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TinySol, a hand-written assembly solitaire for DOS, squeezes full gameplay into just 3 KB. The minimal version runs on IBM 5150 hardware with CGA/EGA/VGA support; a 3.5 KB build adds mouse and save features. It fits insi…
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A detailed historical account of how Rust's RangeFrom type evolved from its 2014 introduction through 2026, examining the deliberate overflow behavior, documented boundary quirks, and recent API stabilization via RFC 355…