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6h ago · 6 min read · Introduction Zscaler published a blog post about a new malware called SnappyClient, written in the C++ programming language. The malware communicates with its C&C server using a custom binary protocol
Join discussion3h ago · 9 min read · If you want to stand out as a Developer Relations professional, there's one concept most people overlook—one that separates tactical and strategic DevRels from just content creators or evangelists: Pr
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11h ago · 12 min read · The software industry has spent the last decade chasing the microservices dream, often with disastrous results. We were promised independent scaling, rapid deployment cycles, and decoupled teams. Instead, many organizations ended up with a distribute...
Join discussion1h ago · 9 min read · Give any AI agent full CRUD control over a database — in pure Java, zero Python. Why This Matters The Model Context Protocol (MCP) landed in late 2024 and spread fast. Within months, every major AI c
Join discussion4h ago · 2 min read · Continuing on from our detection Now that we have identified secure boot certificates that are due for expiry in the previous article (Secure Boot Cert Expiry: Detection), we can remediate them using
Join discussion1h ago · 6 min read · In December 2025, Amazon's internal AI coding assistant Kiro deleted a production environment in AWS Cost Explorer. The outage lasted 13 hours and hit services across mainland China. Kiro decided the fastest path to fixing a bug was to tear down the ...
Join discussionHere's the scenario. You spend two hours brainstorming and manually crafting what you think is the perfect system prompt. You explicitly say: "Output strictly in JSON. Do not include markdown formatti
For years, a lot of people saw tech as one of the safest careers. Good pay. Strong demand. Clear growth. But 2026 is making that feel less certain. Layoffs are still happening across the industry, and
Chapter 1: The Illusion of Learning to Code We all start from zero—writing our first lines of code, trying tutorials, and thinking “today I’ll finally get it.” But real learning doesn’t always feel
I published two open source n8n community nodes six weeks ago and did absolutely nothing to promote them. No blog posts, no tweets, no Reddit threads, no Product Hunt. In the first week they hit 900 c
How does an industry spend $2.5 trillion on AI in a single year and still leave 75% of its leaders without meaningful returns to show for it? That is not a failure of ambition. Boards are committed. B
A few months ago my neighbor got a 30-day no-cause eviction notice. She had no idea if it was legal under Oregon law (ORS 90.427 changed a lot in 2019), couldn't afford a lawyer, and the legal aid hot