I hate AI side projects

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The best thing about AI is that EVERYONE can build now. The worst thing about AI is that EVERYONE can build now. I’ve worked on and shared many of my side projects over the years. I built them because they gave me a chance to learn new things, such as deploying my first web app […]

Turn Dependabot Off

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Dependabot is a noise machine. It makes you feel like you’re doing work, but you’re actually discouraging more useful work. This is especially true for security alerts in the Go ecosystem. I recommend turning it off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running your test […]

OpenScan

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OpenScan offers affordable, open-source 3D scanners for everyone. Our community-driven project combines photogrammetry with modular hardware to create high-quality 3D models. From hobbyists to professionals, OpenScan empowers users worldwide to explore 3D scanning in various fields. Join us in making 3D scanning accessible and push the boundaries of digital preservation and creation.

Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years

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Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8,000 years. Today, Georgia’s wine industry offers exceptional wines using both modern European and ancient winemaking techniques. Lasha Tsatava DipWSET, the first ever Georgian gives us an introduction to this unique wine landscape.   If you’re interested in philosophy, your studies will take you to Greece where you’ll come […]

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

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I’m a diving instructor. I’m also a platform engineer who spends lots of his time thinking about and implementing infrastructure security. Sometimes those two worlds collide in unexpected ways. A Sula sula (Frigatebird) and a dive flag on the actual boat where I found the vulnerability – somewhere off Cocos Island. While on a 14 […]

Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously

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Autonomous testing is one of the most powerful approaches for exploring vast state spaces in complex systems. Rather than manually writing test cases for every scenario, autonomous systems can systematically explore millions of states, discovering edge cases that human testers would never think to check. In this two-part follow-up, we’ll continue the Super Mario Bros. […]

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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Every Company Building Your AI Assistant Is Now an Ad Company – Juno Pre-orders for the Juno Pioneer Edition now open, reserve your Juno today! Friday, 20 February 2026 · Adam Juhasz On January 16, OpenAI quietly announced that ChatGPT would begin showing advertisements. By February 9th, ads were live. Eight months earlier, OpenAI spent […]

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

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The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the […]