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A compression library bug does not sound like a big deal until you count how many programs decompress data they did not ask for. CVE-2026-111497 is an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli decoder, t
A note before the explanation: I did not run the build in this article. Docker is not installed on the machine I wrote it on, so there is no build log to show you. What follows is a walkthrough of a r
Every API you have ever used has one of these. The idea is simple enough to fit in thirty lines, and the thirty lines teach you more about rate limiting than any dashboard does. Here is the version I
Everyone has heard the rule: never rebase a shared branch. Fewer people have watched what actually breaks when you do. I ran the whole thing in two throwaway clones to see the damage with my own eyes,
Last month I wrote a small import script for a supplier's customer file. Four rows in, four rows out, no errors, no warnings. A week later a parcel came back undeliverable. The address in our database
A cron job ran twice last Tuesday. Not a crash, not an error — the same job, twice, four minutes apart, doing the same work on the same data. The second run sent duplicate emails to a handful of users
A critical TLS certificate-validation vulnerability was disclosed in Node.js 24.x and 26.x, tracked as CVE-2026-105483. It is the kind of bug that sounds abstract until you translate it: under certain
Go has shipped a reworked JSON package, json/v2, and it is the kind of change that looks boring in a changelog and matters a lot in real code. I spent an evening reading the proposal and porting a sma
Model Context Protocol — MCP — is the piece of the AI-tools puzzle that sounds complicated and turns out to be simple once you build one. I built a tiny MCP server for my own notes folder last weekend
