Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Your biggest mentor isn't someone else. It's the person you used to be.

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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner may classify GitHub as a social network harmful to kids, forcing the code platform to comply with ban rules for under-16s.

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

PostgreSQL Version Comparison Raw Data PostgreSQL Version Transactions Latency (ms) TPS PG12 178430 5.379 2973.119642 PG13 149433 6.423 2489.901484 PG14 174704 5.494 2911.603621 PG15 176696 5.432 2944.832915 PG16 178045 5.390 2967.223055 PG17 167942 5.715…

Real cleanup in a big Nx monorepo. I used Knip to flag unused deps, verified removals, handled false positives, and shaved about a minute off yarn install with lower CVE risk.

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A Monroe family is taking Stellantis to trial over a faulty Grand Cherokee 4xe, citing safety issues after the vehicle allegedly shut down in traffic.

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Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure…

For the past decade, a simple message has been delivered to a generation of American students: If you learn to code and complete a computer science degree, you’ll get a job with a six-figure salary.


Now, thousands of students who followed the advice are…

Good culture is by far a better productivity hack than a shiny new AI tool!

Over-engineering slows delivery, raises costs, and kills products. Learn why it happens—and how to build simpler, stronger software.

Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work.

Most HTTP vulnerabilities don't come from sophisticated attacks. They come from misunderstanding where your framework stops protecting you. This covers the edge cases that actually bite production APIs: Range headers, path traversal, encoding conflicts, and…

Have you ever wondered how to build the most stable application in the world? What characteristics does such an application have, and what architecture styles make it possible?

TL;DR Over the past few years, AI has made remarkable progress, but it doesn’t always deliver what professional developers need. One key reason is that most models are trained on public datasets th