Most UI kits let you pass any style as a prop — radius, size, color, or a wall of Tailwind classes, whatever you need. That flexibility is exactly the problem: it turns every component call into a one...

100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.

Modern internet is broken and no longer built for human beings. By 2026 the internet is filled with robots . One type of robots generates content and injects advertisements, another type in...

Campaign of 108 extensions harvests identities, steals sessions, and adds backdoors to browsers, all tied to the same C2 infrastructure.

In June 2023, I found myself in an awkward situation. We used a custom database on a project, and I needed a simple query builder to create complex queries dynamically and ensure security against user...

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Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…

Big tech companies invest a lot of effort to sell us the point that every good programmer must have their own open source project. Many programmers have open source side projects, but quite few of...

If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.

User interfaces everywhere are a bit too generic nowadays, as they must be efficient in terms of maintenance and release time. However, that is not a reason to create a pointless and bad UX. It's enou...

Enterprise programming is the management of system complexity. The main goals of most enterprise projects are to minimize bugs, ensure scalability, and release as soon as possible. These goals are unr...