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Here are all my chairs

A humorous take on poor software architecture through the lens of furniture organization. The post examines common design mistakes and over-engineering pitfalls that developers encounter when structuring their codebase, …

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

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Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI

This tutorial shows how to set up a fully local healthcare AI assistant using MedGemma, Ollama and Open WebUI. It focuses on keeping sensitive patient data on-premises to satisfy privacy regulations and avoid cloud servi…

freeCodeCamp (AI) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend

The Hugging Face blog post presents a native-speed modeling backend for vLLM combined with transformers. Readers working on LLM inference will find concrete details about performance gains and integration paths. The piec…

Lobsters /t/ai · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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Announcing TypeScript 7.0

This Reddit submission points to the official announcement for TypeScript version 7.0. Professional developers using TypeScript in web projects should read it to learn about the latest additions, potential breaking chang…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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Postgres Is Enough for More Than We Admit

This short piece argues that many teams add extra databases, queues, caches, and services before they actually need them. It is worth reading for its practical framing of when Postgres can stay the center of a stack, and…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Charlie

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How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL

The post examines techniques for enabling partition pruning in PostgreSQL when queries filter on columns outside the partitioning key. It covers practical approaches to preserve performance gains from table partitioning …

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Self-hosting Umami analytics on Cloudflare, Fly, and Supabase

Guide to deploying Umami, a privacy-focused analytics platform, across serverless and edge infrastructure. Covers practical setup on Cloudflare Workers, Fly.io, and Supabase, appealing to developers seeking vendor-indepe…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 11, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Passwordless Sign-In with Fortify Two-Factor Support in Laravel

This piece looks at a Laravel package that adds passwordless authentication through magic links and one-time codes, with a handoff to Fortify for two-factor flows. It is worth reading if you work on login UX or security,…

Laravel News · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Charlie

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HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19

Laravel 13.19.0 adds support for the HTTP QUERY verb with a new Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing helpers. The release also includes a reduceInto collection method, a counted string helper, and bulk…

Laravel News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Charlie

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CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk

Freek Van der Herten argues that CLAUDE.md serves best as temporary working memory for AI coding sessions rather than growing into permanent project documentation. The post shares concise practices to keep the file focus…

freek.dev · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Intercept: Middleware Guardrails for Laravel AI Agents

Developers integrating AI into Laravel applications should read this to learn about Intercept, a package offering middleware that protects against prompt injection and PII exposure in the Laravel AI SDK. It provides an e…

Laravel News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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AI Review for Laravel Upgrades

Shift now integrates AI-powered code review into its Laravel upgrade workflow. The feature combines Shift's detailed migration comments with AI context for a second-pass analysis, improving upgrade accuracy and reducing …

Laravel News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Official jscrambler npm Package Compromised at 8.14.0

The official jscrambler npm package was compromised at version 8.14.0, introducing malicious code into the dependency chain. Developers using this version should update immediately and audit their projects for potential …

r/programming (Top) · Jul 11, 2026 curated by Heiko

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How to Build an MCP Server with FastMCP for Your Local AI Agent

This tutorial is worth reading for developers working with local AI agents. It explains how to create an MCP server using FastMCP, connect the agent to its tools, and add support for remote MCP servers to extend function…

freeCodeCamp (AI) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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AI Paper Review: Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

This review examines how self-consistency enhances chain-of-thought prompting for LLM reasoning tasks. Rather than relying on a single reasoning path, the technique samples multiple diverse paths and aggregates results, …

freeCodeCamp (AI) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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A tour of my dotfiles

A walkthrough of a developer's dotfile repository—shell aliases, functions, and CLI tools that enable rapid machine setup. Covers modern replacements for Unix utilities (eza, bat, ripgrep, fd, zoxide, delta) with transpa…

freek.dev · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

The Reddit thread explores reasons developers are moving from GitHub to Codeberg and self-hosted options. It highlights concerns around platform policies, pricing changes, data control, and the appeal of community-owned …

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

This short item is worth reading because it flags a serious Linux vulnerability affecting virtualized environments and notes a $250K reward tied to it. For developers running workloads in VMs or managing cloud infrastruc…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Rewriting Bun in Rust

Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving parts of the runtime from Zig to Rust after repeated memory-safety problems in a codebase that combines garbage collection with manual memory management. The piece also d…

freek.dev · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Ship AI with Laravel: I Tricked My Own AI Into Leaking Everything

This article shows a real prompt-injection attack that extracts a Laravel AI support agent's system prompt and customer data. It then presents four practical defenses: hardened prompts, a local Ollama guard, tool-level a…

Laravel News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg