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Laravel Time Machine Profiles Request Lifecycle Without a Database

Laravel Time Machine, a package by Jaydeep Gadhiya, tracks every phase of a Laravel request—bootstrap, middleware, routing, controller, response, termination—with millisecond timing and SQL query capture. It stores JSON …

Laravel News · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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A Practical Guide to PHP Attributes — And Their Limits

Wendell Adriel published a detailed article covering PHP attributes: how they work as metadata, how to read them with Reflection, common design patterns, Laravel usage examples, performance considerations, and testing st…

freek.dev · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Classic WTF: The Logger That Couldn't Log Its Own Errors

A revisited Daily WTF classic follows developer Adam C., hired to fix a VXML platform that kept collapsing under light load. Digging through logs full of a cryptic 'Exception encountered writing error log' message, he tr…

The Daily WTF · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Hobbyist Revives a 1990s Java Ring After Battery Failure

Daisuke Yamazaki restored a Java Ring, a 1990s iButton wearable once handed out at Java conferences to store coffee preferences. Using a Blue Dot adapter and a downgraded 32-bit Java 1.8 runtime, he diagnosed CRC errors …

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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From Query Floods to Bloom Filters: How Gnutella Solved Its Own Scalability Crisis

Early Gnutella used naive flood routing, forwarding queries to all peers regardless of relevance, creating exponential bandwidth waste as the network grew to millions of nodes. The Query Routing Protocol (QRP) replaced t…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 20, 2026 curated by Heiko

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When an interface becomes a numbered list

A developer discovers an ITableSelector interface with 31 hard-coded methods—selectTable1() through selectTable31()—each returning a string. A masterclass in how not to abstract database logic: the German programmer's ex…

The Daily WTF · Jul 20, 2026 curated by Heiko

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The Z80 Turns 50: Retired by Its Makers, Kept Alive by Hobbyists

The Zilog Z80 8-bit processor turns 50 this month, having debuted in July 1976 and gone on to power home computers, arcades, and industrial gear. Its current owner Littelfuse discontinued the standalone chip in 2024, but…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 19, 2026 curated by Sönke

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BASIC-256 Gets QT6 Makeover, Lands in the Browser

BASIC-256, an educational dialect derived from KidBASIC, has been ported to QT6 by developer UglyMike. The new release includes a WebAssembly build that runs in browsers, plus native versions for macOS (Apple Silicon), x…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 19, 2026 curated by Heiko

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SQLite's Confusing Defaults Spark Debate Over Rust-Style 'Editions'

A Reddit discussion around a blog post proposes that SQLite adopt Rust-style 'editions' — versioned bundles of safer defaults for foreign keys, journal_mode and busy_timeout. Many developers say they've been burned by SQ…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Vocalizer Brings On-Device Text-to-Speech to PHP

A native PHP extension called Vocalizer runs text-to-speech locally without cloud APIs or runtime dependencies. It supports eight model families, voice cloning, async synthesis, and crash isolation. The article explains …

Laravel News · Jul 17, 2026 curated by Georg

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Reddit Reacts to Unpatched Cursor IDE 0-Day That Runs Any Renamed Executable as Git

A Reddit thread reacts to a disclosure from security firm Mindgard showing Cursor's Windows client executes any file named git.exe found in a repository's root folder, even in restricted workspace mode. Demonstrated by r…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Microsoft dusts off Comic Chat, its 1996 experiment in turning IRC into sequential art

Three decades after its debut alongside Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft has released Comic Chat under the MIT license. The tool converted IRC conversations into comic strips using rule-based character poses and expression…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 16, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Engineering Deep Dive: Scaling a Notification System to Millions of Fanouts

This piece walks through the architectural challenges of rebuilding a notification platform to reliably fan out millions of messages without timing out. It covers personalization, priority handling, consent checks, traff…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 14, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Digital Signage’s Unfortunate Backup Prompt

A digital billboard in Derby provided an accidental public service announcement when it froze on a Windows nag screen. Instead of advertising, the sign spent the day pleading with passers-by to sign into a Microsoft acco…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Building encrypted secret sharing in the browser with the Web Crypto API

The article explains how to implement end-to-end encrypted secret sharing in the browser using the Web Crypto API. It also warns against common salt mistakes—stressing that salts should be unique, not secret—and argues t…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test

SpaceX is scheduling flight test 13 of the Starship rocket for Thursday, July 16, with a 90-minute launch window opening at 2245 UTC. The mission will deploy 20 Starlink V3 satellites, with six equipped with cameras to m…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Building PHP Extensions in Go: A Practical Framework Integration Guide

Freek Van der Herten explores a conference session on writing PHP extensions using Go and FrankenPHP, then integrating them into Laravel and Symfony. The talk uses an in-memory LRU cache as a worked example to demonstrat…

freek.dev · Jul 17, 2026 curated by Heiko

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The Cursed Pre-NFS Era of SunOS Diskless Workstations

Before NFS arrived in SunOS 2.0, diskless workstations used nd, short for network disk. It bypassed standard transport protocols and left partition management entirely to administrators, making data corruption easy to tr…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Charlie

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PHP 8.6 array_map gets a faster path for first-class callables

A Tideways video featured on Freek Van der Herten’s blog shows that PHP 8.6 will make array_map faster when the callback is passed as a first-class callable. The short post is a useful pointer for developers tracking PHP…

freek.dev · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Backwards C Error-Check Becomes an Unwritten Team Convention

In a mostly C project, a veteran developer inverted the usual Boolean convention: functions that return TRUE on success are stored in a variable named error, and the code branches on error == FALSE to handle failures. Th…

The Daily WTF · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Tutorial: build a Laravel Scout search endpoint with the HTTP QUERY method

A new Laravel tutorial walks through building a search endpoint with the HTTP QUERY method, using Laravel Scout's database driver and the Route::match(['QUERY']) workaround until Laravel 14 ships a dedicated Route::query…

Laravel News · Jul 16, 2026 curated by Giselle

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K&R C: a pre-ANSI bestiary of missing keywords, mutable strings, and octal 9s

Sebastian's deep dive into K&R C — the 1978 dialect that preceded ANSI standardization — uncovers a language without void, const, enum, or variadic prototypes, where string literals were mutable, octal constants accepted…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Laravel Legacy Bridge: Share Authenticated Sessions During a Gradual Migration

A new package by Chris Keller lets teams migrate to Laravel one route at a time without forcing users to log in again at the boundary. It reads the legacy session cookie, decodes the payload from the legacy database, and…

Laravel News · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Georg

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Coding in 1978: teletypes, paper tape, and a single-expression BASIC function

At the suggestion of a programmer whose work he respects, Ken Whitesell opens a career retrospective with his first semester of high-school programming in early 1978. The school HP-2000F ran time-shared BASIC through Bel…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 14, 2026 curated by Georg

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Laravel 13.20 Adds Native Image Processing, Middleware Attribute, and Redis Session Prefix

Laravel 13.20.0 ships a first-party Illuminate\Image component for transforming images from uploads, URLs, storage disks, or bytes, backed by optional Intervention Image v4 drivers. The release also adds a #[WithoutMiddl…

Laravel News · Jul 15, 2026 curated by Charlie

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A 300 MB CSS stylesheet now emulates an IBM PC and runs DOOM at two instructions per second

Developer Ahmed Amer has created CSS-DOS, a 300 MB CSS stylesheet that encodes a full IBM PC compatible emulator complete with a simulated 8086 CPU, 640 kB RAM, floppy controller and VGA. The project exploits the idea th…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 16, 2026 curated by Giselle

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Cloudflare Identifies Race Condition in hyper's HTTP/1 Implementation

Cloudflare discovered a race condition vulnerability in the hyper Rust HTTP library's HTTP/1 handling. The flaw affects concurrent request processing and warrants attention from teams using hyper in production systems. D…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Node's setTimeout Can Fire Before the Requested Delay

Karen's TypeScript specification tests failed a few times per thousand. The culprit was Node.js setTimeout, which unlike standard JS can fire before the requested delay. She replaced a simple Promise-based wait with a lo…

The Daily WTF · Jul 16, 2026 curated by Heiko

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GhostLock: A 15-Year-Old Stack Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux

GhostLock is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability affecting the kernel's I/O handling stack that persisted across all major Linux distributions for approximately 15 years. The flaw, detailed in security research, represe…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Heiko

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The Calcumator 2000: Floating Point with Voltmeters

Developer lcamtuf built a retro-style calculator that uses voltmeter dials instead of modern digital displays. It looks like a relic from an earlier era, but a microcontroller handles the logic behind it.

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 13, 2026 curated by Charlie