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#General #Development #Mobile Development #Cloud & DevOps #Cybersecurity & Privacy #AI & Data Science #Hardware & Gadgets #Design & UXFrom Injured Athlete to Software Engineer with Kaleb Garner [Podcast #193]
Kaleb Garner is a software engineer working at a medical technology app company. He got a scholarship to play baseball at a state university, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he dropped out. After moving back in with his parents and wor...
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PostgreSQL Full-Text Search vs. Pattern Matching: A Performance Comparison
A previous article explains why PostgreSQL full-text search (FTS) is not a good candidate for implementing a general find functionality, where the user is expected to provide a pattern to be looked up and matched against the fields of one or multiple entities. Considering the previously explained technical challenges, it is clear that FTS is great for semantic and language-aware search, although it cannot cover raw...
Anypoint Mulesoft Masking Sensitive Data With DataWeave Custom Function in Logging
When working with Mulesoft integration applications,especially when exchanging data between services, APIs, or third-party applications. It's important to mask sensitive data while logging. Masking specific fields in payloads refers to the process of obfuscating sensitive information (like personal identifiers, financial data, or authentication tokens) before it's logged.
We Tested Context7 With ZK Documentation: Here's What We Learned
AI coding assistants have become increasingly capable in understanding not only code but also project-specific documentation. In this experiment, we tested Context7, a new MCP server, to see how well it could work with a large-scale, real-world documentation set β ZK Frameworkβs developer documentation. For readers unfamiliar with ZK, itβs a Java-based web framework that allows developers to build rich web applications...
Dialogs that work everywhere β dealing with the timeout
Miniterface is a toolkit that makes dialogs that work everywhere, as a desktop, terminal, or a browser app. Recently, I've added a timeout feature that auto-confirms the dialog in few seconds. As the library guarantees the dialogs work the same way everywhere, this was technically challenging, take a look at the techniques used for each interface. GUI (tkinter) I feared this will be the most challenging, but in the...
DevEx Ambient Agent With Advanced Knowledge Graph
As developers, we all face friction points throughout the day β from repetitive tasks to sifting through documentation or getting stuck on a challenging bug. The Agentic DevEx Assistant was built to help with these challenges by acting as a developerβs co-pilot. Instead of just generating code, this tool works alongside you, proactively offering contextual assistance, automating common tasks, and helping you navigate...
Why rent a cloud when you can build one?
Andrei Kvapil, founder of Γnix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible.
No Silver Bullets: Why Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy, Not Magic
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Why C variable argument functions are an abomination (and what to do about it)
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From Ticking Time Bomb to Trustworthy AI: A Cohesive Blueprint for AI Safety
The emergence of AI agents has created a "security ticking time bomb." Unlike earlier models that primarily generated content, these agents interact directly with user environments, giving them freedom to act. This creates a large and dynamic attack surface, making them vulnerable to sophisticated manipulation from a myriad of sources, including website texts, comments, images, emails, and downloaded files. The...
The Ethics of AI Exploits: Are We Creating Our Own Cyber Doomsday?
As artificial intelligence advances at rates never previously encountered, its impact upon society is taking hold ever more profoundly and extensively. From autonomous vehicles and personalized medicine to generative media and intelligent infrastructure, AI is changing every area it touches. But lurking in the background of these revolutionary promises is a chilly, black fear: Are we also building the tools of our own...
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if youβre an introvert
If alone time is your love languageβdonβt worry, itβs ours tooβyou can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how. The post How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if youβre an introvert appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Deep Linking in Enterprise Android Apps: A Real-World, Scalable Approach
In modern enterprise Android development, navigating users through massive apps with multiple modules, features, and roles can quickly become complex. This is where deep linking steps in as a game-changer. It enables direct routing to specific parts of your app β skipping redundant screens and delivering a seamless, contextual experience. In this article, weβll walk through a real-world example and a modern...
Crypto Agility for Developers: Build Agile Encryption Now
In 2025, software development is evolving rapidly with the rise of Vibe Coding and Agentic AI, but so is the cryptographic landscape that underpins these systems. As quantum computing moves closer to practical applicability and encryption standards become outdated, one imperative is becoming unavoidable: crypto agility. Crypto agility, the ability of systems to switch between cryptographic algorithms and protocols...
Maximize Your AI Value With Small Language Models
Just about every developer I know has the same story about their first generative AI project. They spin up a proof of concept using GPT-4 or Claude, get amazing results, and then watch their AWS bill explode when they try to scale. The promise of AI inevitably meets the reality of infrastructure costs, and suddenly that revolutionary feature becomes a budget line item nobody wants to defend. For many engineering teams,...
How to Build End-to-End Machine Learning Lineage
Machine learning lineage is critical in any robust ML system. It lets you track data and model versions, ensuring reproducibility, auditability, and compliance. While many services for tracking ML lineage exist, creating a comprehensive and manageabl...
Build AI Agents with Phidata: YouTube Summarizer Agent
This is the first article in a two-part series on building AI agents from the ground up. In this article, we will explore the value of AI agents, introduce popular agentic AI platforms, and walk through a hands-on tutorial for building a simple AI Agent. The second part of the series will dive deeper with a hands-on tutorial, where weβll build agents that can automate tasks and interact with external tools and APIs.
How to Optimize a Graphical React Codebase β Optimize d3-zoom and dnd-kit Code
Miro and Figma are online collaborative canvas tools that became very popular during the pandemic. Instead of using sticky notes on a physical wall, you can add a virtual postβand an array of other thingsβto a virtual canvas. This lets teams collabor...
A Technical Practitioner's Guide to Integrating AI Tools into Real Development Workflows
While leadership debates AI strategy, there's a growing divide in development teams: junior developers are shipping features faster with Cursor and GitHub Copilot, while senior engineers question whether AI-assisted code is maintainable at scale and can often be found criticizing the junior devs for their use of AI If you're a tech lead, architect, or senior developer, navigating this transition is not easy. The...
Porting From Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering
The Problem With the brew upgrade Command By default, the brew upgrade command updates every formula (terminal utility or library). It also updates every cask (GUI application) it manages. All are upgraded to the latest version β major, minor, and patch. Thatβs convenient when you want the newest features, but disruptive when you only want quiet patch-level fixes. Last week, I solved this in Perl with...
absurder-sql
AbsurderSQL: Taking SQLite on the Web Even Further What if SQLite on the web could be even more absurd? A while back, James Long blew minds with absurd-sql β a crazy hack that made SQLite persist in the browser using IndexedDB as a virtual filesystem. It proved you could actually run real databases on the web. But it came with a huge flaw: your data was stuck. Once it went into IndexedDB, there was no exporting, no...
How to Create Kubernetes Cluster and Security Groups for Pods in AWS [Full Handbook]
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Security Groups for Pods is a powerful feature that enables fine-grained network security controls at the pod level. This guide walks you through implementing this feature, from initial cluster setup to testing...
How to Create Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with Custom Claims Using Firebase Rules
When youβre building an application, not all users should have the same level of access. For example, an admin might be able to update or delete some data (logs excluded), while a regular user should only be able to read it. This is where Role-Based ...
Centralized Configuration Management With Consul
What Is Centralized Configuration? In modern microservice architectures, multiple applications often share common configuration data (e.g., database settings). These might be multiple instances of the same service or entirely different services. Regardless of the service behavior, instead of maintaining configuration at the service level, we can centralize it in one place and distribute it across all services....
How to Use the ChatGPT Apps SDK: Build a Pizza App with Apps SDK
OpenAI recently introduced ChatGPT Apps, powered by the new Apps SDK and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Think of these apps as plugins for ChatGPT: You can invoke them naturally in a conversation. They can render custom interactive UIs inside Ch...
Building a Fault-Tolerant Microservices Architecture With Kubernetes, gRPC, and Circuit Breakers
Over the last decade, microservice architectures have become commonplace when designing scalable, maintainable, and independently deployable applications. Breaking down a system into multiple, domain-focused services, development squads can quickly develop, have varying technology stacks per service, and independently scale an application's constituent pieces. But this flexibility has its cost: operational complexity...
Why Domain-Driven Design Is Still Essential in Modern Software Development
Thereβs no doubt thatsoftwarehas become the invisible infrastructure of our modern world. Over a decade ago,Forbespublished a prophetic article titledβNow Every Company Is a Software Company.βAt the time, that sounded bold β today, it feels like common sense. Whether in banking, healthcare, logistics, or agriculture, software has moved from the background to the core of business strategy. This means that every company,...
I automated my C# workflow in Visual Studio with a Stream Deck, and itβs a game-changer
Hey fellow C# devs, I got tired of remembering complex Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts and constantly managing my workspace, so I decided to see if I could build a more physical, streamlined workflow. I ended up creating a full productivity system using an Elgato Stream Deck, and the results have been incredible for my focus and coding speed. I wanted to share it because the principles can apply to any C# project,...
Python Development With Asynchronous SQLite and PostgreSQL
After years of working from the comfort of Python and Django, I moved to the wild asynchronous world of FastAPI to improve latency in web-based AI applications. I started with FastAPI and built an open-source stack calledFastOpp,which adds command-line and web tools similar to Django. Initially, things went smoothly using SQLite and aiosqlite to add AsyncIO to SQLite. I used SQLAlchemy as my Object Relational Mapper...
Bending Emacs - Episode 03: Git clone (the lazy way)
Here's a video with the latest iteration of my expedited git clone flow. While my flow is Emacs-specific, I'd be curious to see flows from other editors. submitted by /u/xenodium [link] [comments]
Distributed Locking in Cloud-Native Applications: Ensuring Consistency Across Multiple Instances
Overview I am sure that most of us may have used some kind of locking during development, or may have faced issues of incorrect results in some states that are difficult to reproduce. Things are not that complex when we need to manage them within the process or even multiple processes, but on the same machine. It is also very common these days that most of us are involved in making cloud-native applications/services,...
Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now
Discover how GitHub Copilot has evolved from a high-powered autocomplete tool to a powerful, multi-model agentic assistant. The post Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Secure coding in JavaScript
JavaScript is the front-end of the entire internet. Because JavaScript is so prolific, itβs a prime target for attackers.
The Era of AI-First Backends: What Happens When APIs Become Contextualized Through LLMs?
Introduction: What Happens When APIs Start Thinking? Wondered what your backend might "think" about? Up until now, we have viewed LLMs (e.g., OpenAI's GPT series) as a code assistant or a chatbot. However, behind the scenes of those experiences is something that can take things to a much more impactful level: an AI-first backend experience. In this type of environment, APIs do not simply follow the pre-packaged flow,...
Learn MCP Essentials and How to Create Secure Agent Interfaces with FastMCP
MCP is the standard rule set that allows AI agents, like GitHub Copilot and Gemini, to securely and intelligently interact with your databases, functions, and applications. We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will ...