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Laravel v13.31.0 ships a new Queue::totalSize() method and a JobInterrupted event for Interruptible jobs. The release also adds chaperone support for BelongsToMany pivot models, a Vite devServerUrl() method, once asserti…
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Vala's core library ships make_directory_async but no async variant of create_directory_with_parents. A reader of The Daily WTF patched the gap with a loop that climbs parent directories on IOError.NOT_FOUND, then replay…
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A hobbyist continues his series on playing audio through single-bit beepers, this time on the ZX Spectrum. Pulse code modulation works, pulse width modulation does not yet, and the machine's software-only buzzer is partl…
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Fuzz, a package by Jon Purvis, adds coverage-guided fuzz testing to Pest 5 via nikic's PHP-Fuzzer. It mutates seed strings, tracks code coverage without Xdebug, and reports crashes as failed tests. A walkthrough shows it…
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An anonymous contributor to The Daily WTF tells how a lucrative late-career contracting gig went sideways. His sponsor died suddenly right as he finished analyzing the legacy core application, leaving him ignored for 18 …
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Declan Chidlow has catalogued the non-standard HTML snippets that once fought browser wars and third-party meddling: X-UA-Compatible, conditional comments, Smart Tags opt-outs, Baidu transcoding blocks, PICS labels, and …
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Hacker Mike built an 8-bit von Neumann computer from former Eastern-bloc double-triode vacuum tubes, documented on hackaday.io and thetubecomputer.com. Its NOR-based logic recalls NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer, while m…
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NHTSA opened an audit query into Tesla's self-certification of the Cybercab robotaxi hours after its commercial launch in Austin, Texas. The probe examines how Tesla justified skipping standard controls such as steering …
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The Daily WTF reruns a reader submission from Stella, who inherited an XML Schema meant to validate a custom query language for referencing travel booking data. Rather than model the grammar with proper XSD structures, t…
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Developer k6lcm built NES Radar, an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge that shows live air traffic. A Python script on a nearby PC fetches aircraft positions and streams them through the console's second…
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GitHub user nampara-ai has packaged a vintage MS-DOS copy of WordStar with DOSBox and cross-platform launch scripts for Linux, Mac and Windows, plus a WebAssembly build that runs in any browser. Hackaday's Al Williams no…
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The General Conference on Weights and Measures votes in October on a draft resolution making UTC continuous from May 20, 2027, letting it drift from Earth-rotation time by up to an hour instead of correcting every so oft…
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Taylor Otwell has disabled GitHub Issues on most Laravel open-source packages, asking users to describe bugs to a coding agent and submit pull requests instead. The main Laravel repository is unaffected. Symfony is exper…
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A digital sign at London's O2 arena has been spotted displaying a Windows 10 update notification, an awkward backdrop for the indoor skydiving advertised behind it. Statcounter puts Windows 10 near 30 percent desktop sha…
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Rabah Shihab had Claude Fable 5 port his 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins to Godot 4. The model rebuilt 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly byte-identically, reverse-engineered undocumented level formats, and shipped store as…
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Uber pulled out of Nigeria and Uganda on September 2, 2026, notifying customers and drivers the same day service ended. Users reported rides stopping mid-trip, a phenomenon dubbed the 'Uber rapture'. The exits fit a wide…
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A home automation project ships temperature conversion as a lookup table with wrong values, mapping roughly 0.5C steps to 1F steps. The twist: the table faithfully mirrors what mini-split IR remotes actually send. The re…
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A video essay digs into the fate of Borland, the company behind Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Delphi. It traces how a firm that once defined the PC developer tools market faded from relevance. A nostalgia trip for anyone who…
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A Polish engineer ran 1,040 mushroom photos through 16 AI models to test foraging advice. The best model identified species correctly only 65 percent of the time, and some confused deadly fungi with edible ones. His advi…
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John Koster's Forte package parses Laravel Blade files into a typed syntax tree that developers can query, rewrite, and render back byte-identical. The Laravel News walkthrough covers codemods, audits, and CI checks, plu…
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Sebastian Bergmann argues that European digital sovereignty already runs on PHP applications like TYPO3, Drupal and Nextcloud, citing Germany's €108 million Government Site Builder and the EU's 770 Drupal sites. His piec…
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Laravel 13.30 ships chunkBy() for grouping adjacent collection items, forces Storage::path() through the Flysystem path normalizer so traversal attempts now throw PathTraversalDetected, prints the queue worker's stop rea…
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A Daily WTF tale: a proudly metrics-driven manufacturing team tracks only widgets produced per unit time, pulls six databases into a Google Sheet, and blocks any change that does not improve the noisy top-level number. I…
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Brent Roose, PHP developer advocate at JetBrains and creator of the Tempest framework, has joined The PHP Foundation's Board of Directors in the JetBrains Platinum Sponsor seat. He replaces Roman Pronskiy, founding membe…
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The Daily WTF presents a code comment that truncates mid-sentence: 'Leave some room for'. The snippet subtracts 16 characters from a column size, and the trailing remark stops exactly where its explanation should begin, …
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A digital bus departure board in Manchester showed passengers a Windows Defender Firewall alert instead of clean timetable data. The Vix Technology sign, part of the Bee Network rollout, had its destination text partly h…
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A decompiled 2004 RuneScape client shows how Jagex ran a live multiplayer RPG over a 56k modem delivering roughly 5 KB/s. Tracing a single walk command from click to server and back, the analysis reveals delta-encoded co…
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The Computer History Museum has published part one of a 43-page oral history transcript in which Andy Hertzfeld, Apple's second Macintosh software engineer, describes porting QuickDraw from the Lisa, clashing with manage…
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The ZCOM museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, which houses original Zuse and Robotron computers, could close by the end of the year. The municipal housing company withdrew its annual 110,000-euro subsidy, and the city council…
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Researchers scanning 8,565 llms.txt files across 6,214 domains found 237+ package names and domains referenced in AI-agent instructions that were never registered. They registered several themselves and got installation …