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Valid TLS for internal services: split-horizon DNS plus a VPN-bound WAF
Serving internal web apps over HTTPS usually forces an awkward choice: use a private TLD like .internal with self-signed certificates that every client must be
Why Lisp Is Worth the Steep Climb: Macros, Homoiconicity, and a New Way to Think
Lisp confronts newcomers with a wall of parentheses and inverted syntax, but the author argues the payoff justifies the steep learning curve: the language rewir
A Developer's Case of 'LLM Burnout': Sick of the Same Hallucinations and Emojis
A software developer who leans on Claude Code and Codex for hours daily describes a creeping fatigue with LLM output. His workflow has inverted over the past ye
Apple's Hidden Assistive Access Turns a Spare iPhone Into a Free Kids' Dumb Phone
A parent hunting for a locked-down first phone for his son discovered that Apple's standard Screen Time controls can't fully block Safari — kids route around ap
Bun is being rewritten from Zig to Rust to kill memory-safety bugs
Bun, the JavaScript runtime now downloaded over 22 million times a month and used as the engine behind tools like Claude Code and OpenCode, is moving off Zig an
Cargo-nextest: A Faster, Isolated Test Runner for Rust with CI Superpowers
Cargo-nextest is an open-source test runner for Rust that positions itself as a drop-in replacement for the built-in `cargo test`. Its main pitch is speed — a r
Cloudflare Drop: Deploy a Site by Dragging a Folder Onto the Edge
Cloudflare Drop is a zero-configuration deployment tool that lets you push a static website live by uploading a folder or zip file. Rather than wiring up a buil
Damn Interesting founder runs a fundraiser to buy back his own writing time
Alan Bellows, who founded the long-form site Damn Interesting, explains that he sustained the project for nearly two decades by pairing part-time engineering jo
Databricks built its own coding-agent benchmark — and open models made the frontier
Databricks built an internal benchmark from its own recent pull requests to figure out which coding agents actually perform best on its multi-million-line, ten-
DocuBrowse: A Local, Offline AI Search Engine for Your Document Pile
DocuBrowse is an open-source desktop tool that indexes a scattered collection of files — PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, presentations, ebooks, HTML, and plain t
EU Parliament Revives 'Chat Control 1.0' Mass Scanning Despite Majority Opposition
The European Parliament has cleared the way for the return of suspicionless mass scanning of private messages until 2028, reversing a stance it took twice in Ma
FAANG Simulator turns the Big Tech rat race into a one-tap doom-clicker
"The Rat Race" is a satirical browser game that compresses an entire Big Tech career into a doom-clicker. Each tap advances one financial quarter of your life: