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In software development, complexity might be admired but simplicity is always rewarded.
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sydseter.com
Version 1 of the OWASP AI testing guide just got published.

I promise you, from my own experience, this will save you a lot of heartache.

github.com/OWASP/www-pr...
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
merikan.com
Event Driven Architecture 1-2-3 :
1. You attend an Event
2. You Drive home
3. You rewrite your entire Architecture
😂😂😂
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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apievangelist.com
Responding to something I hear a lot about the state of the web & APIs. apievangelist.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Web and APIs Weren’t Built for Autonomous Agents, They Were Built For Humans by The API Evangelist
Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.
apievangelist.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
merikan.com
Google has released its new IDE antigravity.google
Google Antigravity
Google Antigravity - Build the new way
antigravity.google
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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agarri.fr
The release candidate of the OWASP Top 10 2025 has been released

owasp.org/Top10/2025/0...

The definitive release should be out on November 20th
Introduction - OWASP Top 10:2025 RC1
OWASP Top 10:2025 RC1
owasp.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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kevlin.bsky.social
New on the blog: Think for Yourself

"You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions."

kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
Think for Yourself
Understand and improve on LLM-generated code
kevlinhenney.medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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troyhunt.com
This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned.com subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...
2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from ...
www.troyhunt.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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emilybache.com
I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...
The Microskills Theory of Programming - Coding Is Like Cooking
How to Succeed with Technical Coaching Software Developers are constantly shifting between activities. It might all be ‘coding’ but when you look more closely there are hundreds of distinct activities...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) release now starting!

github.com/FasterXML/ja...

#java #json #xml #csv #cbor #csv
Jackson Release 3.0
Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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modernswe.bsky.social
Why Are Developers Quitting Microservices? |
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Why Are Software Engineers Quitting Microservices?
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering
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October 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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lawik.bsky.social
My conference report for Goatmire Elixir 2025. From the perspective of the organizer. I hope to see other people share long-form notes on their conference experience. There cannot be too much blogging. Also, lots of nice pictures by Petter Boström.
underjord.io/conference-r...
#elixirlang
Conference Report: Goatmire Elixir 2025
The quiet was unsettling. The lack of concrete things to do was stressful. Me and my wife had been fretting and flitting around the house for most of the day making sure everything was staged, that…
underjord.io
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ghuntley.com
I Am an Engineer anna.kiwi/blog/work-sy...
I Am an Engineer by Anna McPhee
I was my own worst gatekeeper until I realised that engineering isn't about credentials, it's about how I approach building software.
anna.kiwi
September 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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mreinhold.org
Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk...

Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/

#Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java
Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability
mail.openjdk.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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feross.bsky.social
This is not over. 👇

🚨 A new wave of the npm supply chain attack just hit again. This time targeting CrowdStrike packages.

Socket detected malware-laced updates that steal developer creds, spin up rogue GitHub Actions, and exfiltrate secrets.

Developing story...
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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skytube.video
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Browse trending, recent, and vertical posts. 

Keep track of your favorite accounts and save videos for later using your Bluesky login.

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#atproto #atdev #SkyTube
August 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mccune.org.uk
github.com/bitnami/char... Am I missing something reading this, or are Bitnami going to break every reference to their Docker Hub images in 13 days time?
Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) · Issue #35164 · bitnami/charts
📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing on...
github.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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cloudnativeboy.bsky.social
Happy Friday!!!
August 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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martinfowler.com
Nik Malykhin found it useful to get an AI assistant to write its own coding rules by analyzing his code, and then asking it to refine them as worked with it.

nik1379616.substack.com/p/can-we-mak...
Can We Make AI Code Assistants Smarter by Asking Them to Write Their Own Rules?
It seems logical, doesn't it?
nik1379616.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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brunopedro.com
"Not many people really know what MCP is and how it works. I was one of those people, I confess. Until not long ago, I only had a vague idea of what you can do with MCP, but I didn't have a deep knowledge of how it works."

apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-evolut...
The Evolution of MCP
What's next for the now popular Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
apichangelog.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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mthmulders.bsky.social
Here's a fresh new blog post to start your week just right: Building a CLI with @quarkus.io, @kotlinlang.org and @graalvm.org. Check it out at maarten.mulders.it/2025/07/buil....
Building a CLI with Quarkus, Kotlin and GraalVM · Maarten on IT
Build fast, native command-line tools with Quarkus, Kotlin, and GraalVM. This guide covers project setup, dependency injection, PicoCLI integration, and proven practices for developer productivity, au...
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July 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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martinfowler.com
Korny Sietsma has a great example of how using an LLM for coding is very helpful but with limitations.

blog.korny.info/2025/07/18/a...
A real-world AI coding case sample
I thought it’d be worth posting an example of a bigger task I did the other day - just to show what can be done, without crazy vibe-coding, on a non-greenfields app, using ASP.Net Core not some simpli...
blog.korny.info
July 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM