From Production — week of 2026-10-05

Fragments: October 4

Martin Fowler

In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what was on their mind, but their post immediately made me think of the classic 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Plenty of sci-fi, and other literature, have explored humans creating technology with unintended behavior, going back at least to Mary Shelly. But that movie was particularly influential on sci-fi film-making and in…

Do You Prefer Gradle?

CodeName One

Optional Gradle projects remove empty platform modules, support standalone backends, and use the same build engine as Maven.

Next.js Chunk Load Error: How to Fix Production Failures

SitePoint

Diagnose and resolve intermittent Next.js App Router ChunkLoadError issues in production, from deploy skew and proxy matchers to CDN caching and error boundaries. Continue reading Next.js Chunk Load Error: How to Fix Production Failures on SitePoint.

Node 26 Debounce and Throttle: Practical Guide and Lodash Comparison

SitePoint

Use Node.js 26.10's built-in util.debounce and util.throttle: options, promise behavior, tested examples, the cancel() gotcha and how they differ from Lodash. Continue reading Node 26 Debounce and Throttle: Practical Guide and Lodash Comparison on SitePoint.

Decision Models vs. CVE Data

Jerry Gamblin

Ollama’s new decision endpoint, Cloudflare’s Clef models on a MacBook, and two questions asked of all 27,489 CVEs published in the last 60 days: does the description say why the bug matters, and is it clear? I read the announcement and had a weekend project before I finished it, because the question I care about ... Read more

A new, bespoke static site generator to replace Jekyll

Chris Wellons

My blog began as a blosxom (Perl) site running on a VPS. In 2011 I moved to the new GitHub Pages, with the site generated statically by Jekyll (Ruby) on a GitHub server. It was a no-brainer: easier, faster, and cheaper, better in every way. After 15 years of Jekyll, this week I replaced it with a new, custom-built static site generator, dubbed ssg, in “C with templates” C++20. The ~8KLoC source closely follows my personal coding style including templated arenas and slices, zero dependencies, and a libc-free core. It’s wicked fast, and a complete, cold generation of my blog takes 150ms on my…

Le développement agentique est-il le fossoyeur de la modélisation métier ? - Part 1

OCTO Technology

À l’ère des agents, notre avantage ne viendra peut-être plus de notre capacité à produire plus vite ce que nous savons déjà, mais de notre capacité à apprendre plus vite ce que nous devons réellement construire.

How to Install Python on Your System: A Guide

Real Python

To learn how to install Python on your system, you can follow a few straightforward steps. First, check if Python is already installed by opening a command-line interface and typing python --version or python3 --version. You can install Python on Windows using the official installer from Python.org or through the Microsoft Store. On macOS, you can use the official installer or Homebrew. For Linux, use your package manager or build Python from source. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand how to: Check if Python is installed by running python --version or python3 --version in a…

Strings and Character Data in Python

Real Python

Python strings are a sequence of characters used for handling textual data. You can create strings in Python using quotation marks or the str() function, which converts objects into strings. Strings in Python are immutable, meaning once you define a string, you can’t change it. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: The str() function converts objects to their string representation. String interpolation in Python allows you to insert values into {} placeholders in strings using f-strings or the .format() method. You access string elements in Python using indexing with square…

How to Stop an AI Agent from Destroying Your Laravel App

Freek Van der Herten

A practical post on hardening Laravel projects against destructive AI agent behavior. It walks through the PocketOS incident and shows concrete safeguards like deny rules, credential isolation, and production guardrails. Read more

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