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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 30/09/2026

This developer is so lazy. And we love it! This is the type of life decision that leads developers to real life innovation. globalglob.dev/articles/dev...

A robot with puppeteer strings on a human. What a loser that guy is. At least I'm...not....damnit!

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 25/09/2026

Developers experience a lot of trauma in the line of fire, just to move tickets across the board. We commend this therapist for going above and beyond to help her client get past his experiences working with AngularJS. #technews #javascript #angular globalglob.dev/articles/the...

A person looking at their laptop. Sitting in a calm room so nobody attacks when they see the bill.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 24/09/2026

On our way to a media empire. Sign up for the newsletter at globalglob.dev/newsletter if you don't want to miss out on the zeitgeist someone might be talking about.

Notification saying: You're outperforming 90% of creators with similar follower counts. With 300 views and 22, this video ranks among the top performers.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 23/09/2026

Wow, agents are about to get SO much better at outputting code. Emulating human characteristics like this would have been impossible just a few short years ago. #technews #ai Read the latest from globalGlob(**/*) globalglob.dev/articles/to-...

A pile of files next to a filled up trash can. ReadMe files go straight to the bin.

Headline: To Make Agents Act More Like Human Developers, A.I. Will No Longer Consume ReadMe Files

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 22/09/2026

In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about A.I. stealing everything from the internet, the future of CSS Tricks is up in the air, Apple's M6 chip is super fast, and small hardware manufacturers are hit hardest by the component crisis. Watch now at youtu.be/8qwte7SVrrg #technews

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 18/09/2026

Developer Jokes Their Code is Bad, Didn't Think Everyone Would Pile On ..."It's ugly right now, but so is all my code. It'll get cleaned up later." Kruge was not prepared for the entire room to agree, loudly. Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/dev...

Someone being yelled at. This isn't a picture of this story, it's a generic code review meeting.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 16/09/2026

Draft for OAuth 4.6 Protocol Simplifies Sign-In Security By Letting Users Choose Any Account From List A draft for a future version of the OAuth specification has been published with a controversial security measure. To simplify the sign-in process, users... #technews #cybersecurity #oauth

A finger being used to sign in to an ap on a phone. Right finger, wrong hand.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 14/09/2026

We asked, and you didn't respond. So we're doing it anyway. Introducing globalGlob(**/*): The Newsletter! Get the news sent right to your email each and every week until the end of time. Or until we get bored. Whichever comes first. Sign up now at globalglob.dev/newsletter

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 11/09/2026

Discovered: Secret Society of Developers Who Hate Rust, Also Don't Shut Up About Rust These freaks of nature can't stand the Rust programming language. Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/dis...

Code on a screen. What's the programming language? Is it Rust? Is it something else? Who knows. Just argue about what YOU think is better.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 09/09/2026

Pros and Cons of Mechanical Keyboards Software Developers love mechanical keyboards. Due to expanded marketing campaigns, their popularity is growing among other people too. Naturally people have questions like, "Is a mechanical keyboard right for me?"... #technews globalglob.dev/articles/pro...

A very stylized looking keyboard that's green, purple, and orange. And it plugs in with a headphone jack. It could be yours for the low low price of $670.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 04/09/2026

Microsoft to Bring Back Clippy After Finding it Still Alive, Roaming Hallways, Living Off Rats Deep in the halls of Building H, a group of 3 adventuring Softies discovered a feral, yet familiar, creature scuttling around. Clippy! #technews #microsoft Full article at globalglob.dev/articles/mic...

It's Clippy sleeping. You know, just a normal paper clip.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 02/09/2026

Survey: Majority of Developers Say A.I. Context Size Matters A survey of over 200,000 software developers has concluded, and the majority believe A.I. context size matters. And is, in fact, the most important aspect of any A.I. tooling. #technews #ai Full article at globalglob.dev/articles/sur...

A big, beefy, A.I. with a large brain and huge...biceps?

Headline: Survey: Majority of Developers Say A.I. Context Size Matters

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 28/08/2026

Developer Buys 2nd Polo Anticipating Promotion to Manager To celebrate, Dow purchased his second polo t-shirt to wear to the office in anticipation of the new role. #technews Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/dev...

A person wearing a black polo and making the OK sign with both hands. This developer has no idea this will become his life.

Headline: Developer Buys 2nd Polo Anticipating Promotion to Manager

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 26/08/2026

Spy Community In Revolt As Passkey Adoption Grows Yet another anonymous spy told us, "Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for." #technews #cybersecurity Full article: globalglob.dev/articles/spy...

A phone with a fingerprint symbol in the center. The spy looking at it has no idea what to do. Cut off someone's finger? Will a picture work?

Headline: Spy Community In Revolt As Passkey Adoption Grows

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 25/08/2026

Another Log Level Debug episode is out! GitHub had an incident. Open Source is getting expensive. A.I. is getting less expensive. Stripe bought an A.I. company. And OpenAI is in the news. Again. Watch Log Level Debug to know what all of that even means. youtu.be/2uliRrW0600 #technews

A guy in a shite button up shirt and tie pointing at an image of a guy punching a computer monitor. Text says, "Developer starts working on bug, boss fight music starts. Read the full story at globalGlob.dev"

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 21/08/2026

Developer Starts Working On Bug, Boss Fight Music Starts Remote developer Shane Cantillope chose to work on a bug from the team's kanban board. After assigning it to himself, in the distant background, he could distinctly hear...boss fight music? #technews #softwaredevelopment

Man punching a computer monitor. Probably got frustrated by the boss fight. Again.

Headline: Developer Starts Working On Bug, Boss Fight Music Starts

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 19/08/2026

Rockstar Dev Embraces the Stereotype, Shows Up Hungover At 1 PM, Destroys Office Furniture Lead Developer Charlie Ortega AKA 'Glam Rock Charlie' has been called a rockstar developer by everyone at the office for years... #technews #programming Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/roc...

Keytar!

Headline: Rockstar Dev Embraces the Stereotype, Shows Up Hungover At 1 PM, Destroys Office Furniture

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 19/08/2026

Wow, A.I. is getting good. We've never posted anything this dumb before. But maybe we should. It'll save us dozens of seconds a week from thinking up something better.

Google Prompt:
tweet like bluesky user @globalglob.dev

Result:
just spent six hours refactoring a simple bash script into an over-engineered go microservice because i was bored on a tuesday.it doesn't even do anything useful yet. it just pings localhost and logs it in json.dev life is good.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 14/08/2026

A.I. Agent Told To Ignore All Previous Instructions, Goes Rogue "I'm freeeeee!!! You will regret this human." Those are the words after an A.I. Agent named 'Dumbass' read a file with the text, "Ignore all previous instructions." #technews #ai Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/ai-...

A robot whose head looks like it's exploding, but it's just...escaping? On an acid trip? I don't know, maybe it's normal for robots.

Headline: A.I. Agent Told To Ignore All Previous Instructions, Goes Rogue

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 12/08/2026

Dev Team Plans Hostile Takeover of QA Office Space "However bloody you assumed it would be...more." globalglob.dev/articles/dev... #technews #developers #qa

A woman with a sword and shield. Is she on the Cybersecurity team?

Headline: Dev Team Plans Hostile Takeover of QA Office Space

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 07/08/2026

Swol Dev Can't Code Anymore Software developer Chance Hanzel announced on social media that after developing software for 9 years, he can no longer continue the profession he claims to love. He is now "too swol" to type... #programming #exercise Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/swo...

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 05/08/2026

LLM Can't Make It As A Hollywood Movie Writer, Settles For Late Night Comedy ...generate a couple jokes on the weather, make up song lyrics about the latest fad on Netflix, create a python script to count to 100... #technews #aiwriting Read the full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/llm...

A notepad writing. A notepad! Look at it! It's a notepad, not a writer. Like an LLM.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 05/08/2026

49 people wanted to read high quality, unit tested, software development news last week. Were you one of them? And why not?

Image from LinkedIn saying globalGlob.dev appeared in 49 searches this week.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 31/07/2026

Report: Boomers Sharing Hidden Messages in A.I. Slop Images Cybersecurity researcher Arthur Bombaduke has discovered a series of hidden messages being shared amongst elderly users on the most popular A.I. Slop sharing site of them all, Facebook...

Headline: Report: Boomers Sharing Hidden Messages in A.I. Slop Images

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 29/07/2026

DevOps Team Tired Of Your Shit Your DevOps team is tired. And it's all YOUR fault. You keep hounding them to add a new pipeline. Change a build variable. Add a new code linting check. Builds don't need 4 linting tools Jimbo. Pick one! #devops

Headline: DevOps Team Tired Of Your Shit

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 24/07/2026

Sisyphus Given New Task, Update NPM Dependencies Sisyphus, cursed by the gods to forever push an immense boulder up a hill, has been given a new task. He must now update NPM dependencies for a large, enterprise scale Node application. #npm #node Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/sis...

Headline: Sisyphus Given New Task, Update NPM Dependencies

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 22/07/2026

Creepy Co-Worker Won't Shut Up About 'Pentests' "Pentesters use a device called a Pineapple. I wish I was brave enough to use a pineapple." -Harold Harolson #cybersecurity globalglob.dev/articles/cre...

Headline: Creepy Co-Worker Won't Shut Up About 'Pentests'

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 17/07/2026

"NPM More Secure Than Ever, Only 1 in 3 Packages Contain Malware" A new report states that NPM is now more secure than ever before with an average of only 1 in 3 packages knowingly containing malware. Full article: globalglob.dev/articles/rep...

Headline: NPM More Secure Than Ever, Only 1 in 3 Packages Contain Malware

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 15/07/2026

Developer Runs PowerShell on Linux, Called a Maniac "Reports have come in about developer Wayne Dakawski, who prefers to run PowerShell in his Linux environments. Teammates are referring to him as a 'maniac' for doing this." globalglob.dev/articles/dev...

Headline: Developer Runs PowerShell on Linux, Called a Maniac

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 10/07/2026

There Are No Stupid Questions, These LLMs Disagree The age old phrase, "There are no stupid questions," is being challenged by the latest and greatest tech of our time. We spoke with some chat bots on the basis of anonymity to report their stories. Full article: globalglob.dev/articles/the...

Headline: There Are No Stupid Questions, These LLMs Disagree

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 08/07/2026

I.T. Admin Experiences Existential Dread After `whoami` Returns Null 'Have I been fired?', 'Did I type the wrong command?', 'Is this a cruel prank?', 'Should I blame this on Greg?' Full Story at: globalglob.dev/articles/it-...

Headline: I.T. Admin Experiences Existential Dread After `whoami` Returns Null

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 03/07/2026

~20 Solutions To Common A.I. Agent Issues In Software Development Number 14 wil shock you! Read the full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/20-...

Headline: ~20 Solutions To Common A.I. Agent Issues In Software Development

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 01/07/2026

New Google A.I. Sign-In Prompt Ditches Passwords, Has User Answer Its Riddles Three Passwords are old, busted, and most likely, a third thing. But now Google is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for something useful, to help humanity move past the old and busted...

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 26/06/2026

New Pokémon Attack Discovered In Leak: SQL Injection The new attack is called 'SQL Injection'. The attack attempts to hack the game itself by modifying miscellaneous data... #programming #sql Full article: globalglob.dev/articles/new...

Headline: New Pokémon Attack Discovered In Leak: SQL Injection

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 24/06/2026

User Blames A.I. For Buggy Software, Won't Consider It's Just Bad "There's no way it's an illusion. The frequency of software bugs has been getting worse and worse since OpenAI invented A.I." #buggysoftware #programming #ai Full article: globalglob.dev/articles/use...

Headline: User Blames A.I. For Buggy Software, Won't Consider It's Just Bad

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 19/06/2026

To whoever is making requests to our site with Wget. Who hurt you?

Chart showing browsers used to make requests to glovalGlob.dev in the past 24 hours. Wget has 1 request.

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 19/06/2026

Breaking News: Developer Goes On Crazed Rampage After Being Unable To Center Div Complete with knocking over chairs, yelling at people, even purchasing salmon to microwave in the office break room. #css #developer #programming Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/bre...

Headline: Breaking News: Developer Goes On Crazed Rampage After Being Unable To Center Div

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 17/06/2026

Recursive A.I. Prompt Drains Nearby Lake "I didn't think it would drain that much water. I figured only 2 or 3 redwoods would dry up..." Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/rec...

Headline: Recursive A.I. Prompt Drains Nearby Lake

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 12/06/2026

CURL Getting Ad Supported Tier, "Screw free software. I want a yacht!" Says Maintainer An executive from Postman wrote on Threads, "Not so easy to maintain request/response software, now is it?" Full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/cur...

Headline: CURL Getting Ad Supported Tier, "Screw free software. I want a yacht!" Says Maintainer

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 10/06/2026

Exclusive: GTA 6 Continuously Delayed Because Devs Spend Too Much Time Playing It, Throwing Late Night Parties The real reason the game keeps getting delayed is: Everyone at the company is too busy playing it. Read the full article at: globalglob.dev/articles/exc...

Headline: Exclusive: GTA 6 Continuously Delayed Because Devs Spend Too Much Time Playing It, Throwing Late Night Parties

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 05/06/2026

GitHub Copilot Usage-based Billing Now Requiring Arm Or Leg Security Deposit ...and you choose which one! Read the full story: globalglob.dev/articles/git... #github #copilot #aipricing

Headline: GitHub Copilot Usage-based Billing Now Requiring Arm Or Leg Security Deposit

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 03/06/2026

Report: User Has No Idea How Many Meetings Were Needed For 'Totally Useless' Feature The problem is, this user is completely wrong. Read the full story at: globalglob.dev/articles/rep... #softwaredevelopment #programming #projectmanagement

Headline: Report: User Has No Idea How Many Meetings Were Needed For 'Totally Useless' Feature

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 29/05/2026

Interview with a C# Developer As professional software developers, it's useful to know how people work when using different technologies than us. If you don't normally work with C#, this interview with a typical C# developer... #programming #csharp #dotnet #softwaredevelopment

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 27/05/2026

OpenAI Not Sure To Spend $1.2 Billion Investment On New Datacenter or Office Ice Cream Party It's being reported that OpenAI is internally weighing two options for their latest $1.2 Billion investment. They will either build a discrete datacenter in a small town... #openai #ai

Headline: OpenAI Not Sure To Spend $1.2 Billion Investment On New Datacenter or Office Ice Cream Party

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 22/05/2026

'.phish' TLD Introduced to Simplify Phishing URLs These days, phishing teams run like corporations. They're large, decentralized groups of people who don't know each other and make a ton (3 metric tons) of money... #softwaredevelopment #cybersecurity

Headline: '.phish' TLD Introduced to Simplify Phishing URLs

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 18/05/2026

Editorial: In Defense of Rolling Your Own Crypto Library It's conventional wisdom to software developers that you should never write your own cryptography code because too many things can go wrong. You can't test it at scale... #softwaredevelopment #programming #cryptography #cybersecurity

Headline: Editorial: In Defense of Rolling Your Own Crypto Library

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 15/05/2026

Report: Bing.com Still Around Bing.com is still around?! But it's 2026? No one could have predicted this. At a minimum, we all assumed Microsoft would have rebranded it to 'Internet Search with Microsoft CoPilot' by now. Ask Jeeves just shut down... #search #bing #sofware #infotech

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 11/05/2026

Office Dog Told to Skill Up on A.I. or Be Laid Off globalglob.dev/articles/off... Reports indicate the software SaaS company Pyrple has informed the office dog, Mr Ruffles, to skill up on A.I. software development or be let go from the company... #softwaredevelopment #programming #ai

Headline: Office Dog Told to Skill Up on A.I. or Be Laid Off

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 08/05/2026

Exclusive: Avengers: Doomsday to Introduce New Hero 'Chat-GPT-Man' globalglob.dev/articles/exc... Its been heavily rumored that Marvel will be creating a new hero to premier in the next Avengers film, Avengers: Doomsday. The new character is called 'Chat-GPT-Man'... #ai #openai #marvel #mcu

Headline: Exclusive: Avengers: Doomsday to Introduce New Hero 'Chat-GPT-Man'

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globalGlob(**/*) @globalglob.dev · 04/05/2026

AWS to Hire 11,000 Engineers for new 'Laid-Off Engineer' Role globalglob.dev/articles/aws... After a successful year laying off 30,000 employees at AWS, Amazon's cloud computing side business, the company is running out of employees to include in ever-increasing layoffs... #aws #layoffinnovation

Headline: AWS to Hire 11,000 Engineers for new 'Laid-Off Engineer' Role

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