# From Production — latest published metadata > Up to 100 recent records from the same metadata-only inventory as RSS and JSON Feed. Collected article bodies are not stored or republished. Every canonical URL below points to the publisher. ## 1. Update DB Schema in Production with Flyway like Syntax - Canonical: https://www.codenameone.com/blog/database-upgrades-without-lost-data/ - Publisher: CodeName One - Published: 2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z Use ordered SQL migrations on client and server, validate schema history and handle skipped releases. Understand baselines, repeatable scripts and transactional limits. ## 2. Python for Loops: The Pythonic Way - Canonical: https://realpython.com/python-for-loop/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-10T14:00:00.000Z Python’s for loop allows you to iterate over the items in a collection, such as lists, tuples, strings, and dictionaries. The for loop syntax declares a loop variable that takes each item from the collection in each iteration. This loop is ideal for repeatedly executing a block of code on each item in the collection. You can also tweak for loops further with features like break, continue, and else. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: Python’s for loop iterates over items in a data collection, allowing you to execute code for each item. To iterate from 0 to 10, you use the for… ## 3. Namespaces in Python - Canonical: https://realpython.com/python-namespace/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-10T14:00:00.000Z A Python namespace is a mapping from names to objects. It works like a dictionary where keys are object names and values are the objects themselves. Namespaces organize variables and functions in a dedicated space, allowing you to use multiple instances of the same name without conflict, as long as they’re in different namespaces. In this tutorial, you’ll explore the different types of namespaces in Python, including the built-in, global, local, and enclosing namespaces. You’ll also learn how they define the scope of names and influence name resolution in Python programs. By the end of this… ## 4. The Importance of Play & Whimsy at Work - Canonical: https://spin.atomicobject.com/importance-of-play-whimsy/ - Publisher: Atomic Object - Published: 2026-10-10T12:00:19.000Z - Topics: culture, company-culture, ai-agent Children don’t solve for play or whimsy. It’s a natural state of being, and many experiences we have in our youth are linked to imagination in some way. When I was younger, to feel imaginative meant to change the world around me, and that immersion drove my definition, understanding, and interaction with the world as it […] The post The Importance of Play & Whimsy at Work appeared first on Atomic Spin. ## 5. Quiz: How to Get a List of All Files in a Directory With Python - Canonical: https://realpython.com/quizzes/get-all-files-in-directory-python/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-10T12:00:00.000Z In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Get a List of All Files in a Directory With Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how .iterdir() hands you the contents of a single directory, how glob patterns let .glob() and .rglob() filter results by name, and how .rglob() walks an entire directory tree. You’ll also check your understanding of filtering on attributes with comprehensions and filter(), and of skipping junk directories instead of listing every file inside them. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to… ## 6. Migrating Pinkary from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud - Canonical: https://freek.dev/3202-migrating-pinkary-from-laravel-forge-to-laravel-cloud - Publisher: Freek Van der Herten - Published: 2026-10-10T10:30:07.000Z A practical engineering write-up on moving Pinkary from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud. It walks through the real migration issues they hit, including SQLite to MySQL differences, query rewrites, and storage assumptions in the codebase. Read more ## 7. Making JavaScript API Requests More Reliable with Timeouts, Retries, and Cancellation - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/making-javascript-api-requests-more-reliable-with-timeouts-retries-and-cancellation/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-10T09:28:23.000Z null Continue reading Making JavaScript API Requests More Reliable with Timeouts, Retries, and Cancellation on SitePoint. ## 8. Le développement agentique est-il le fossoyeur de la modélisation métier ? - Part 2 - Canonical: https://blog.octo.com/le-developpement-agentique-est-il-le-fossoyeur-de-la-modelisation-metier - Publisher: OCTO Technology - Published: 2026-10-10T07:06:10.000Z - Topics: software-engineering, data--and--ai, agile, bonne-pratique Dans la première partie, nous avons vu que le développement agentique ne remet pas seulement en question notre manière de produire du code : il transforme aussi la manière dont nous construisons notre compréhension du problème. ## 9. Easy Full Stack Authentication and Login in the Style of Spring - Canonical: https://www.codenameone.com/blog/sign-in-client-server-contract/ - Publisher: CodeName One - Published: 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Connect client token renewal to server access rules, persistence and end-to-end tests. Understand the supported security mechanisms and the different browser testing boundary. ## 10. Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/agents-can-now-buy-domains-with-the-vercel-cli - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T20:24:00.000Z Your agent can now use the Vercel CLI to buy a domain. The agent discovers candidates with vercel domains search, checks availability and registrar pricing with vercel domains check and vercel domains price, and initiates the purchase with vercel domains buy. The purchase decision itself stays with you by design. Run non-interactively, vercel domains buy returns a structured, machine-readable error and the suggested next commands, so the agent hands the confirmation back to you, prohibiting it from spending money without your approval. You can confirm the price, the auto-renew choice, and the… ## 11. Deployment Storage billing begins for existing Pro teams - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/deployment-storage-pricing-expands-to-existing-teams - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T18:00:00.000Z Deployment Storage and Functions Storage billing will begin for all Pro teams at $0.10 per GB-month. Check your email for details about when billing will start for your team. To keep storage costs low, the deployment retention window also changes to 30 days. Deployments older than 30 days will be deleted starting October 23, unless you opt out in your retention settings before then. Retention settings already at 30 days or shorter are unchanged. Control your Deployment Storage Review retention periods for Pre-Production, Production, Canceled, and Errored deployments with a Deployment… ## 12. New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retention - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/new-pro-teams-now-default-to-30-day-deployment-retention - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T18:00:00.000Z New Pro teams now default to a 30-day deployment retention period. Coding agents have accelerated development, increasing deployment frequency and the amount of stored deployment history. Shorter retention keeps recent history available while limiting older history and its storage costs. You can choose a longer retention period in your team's settings when you need more history for inspection or rollback. Deployment Storage and Functions Storage each cost $0.10 per GB-month. Older deployments may be deleted under your retention policy. Deleted deployments cannot be restored or used for… ## 13. Could AI agents be the end of us? The more immediate risk is quieter - Canonical: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/ai-agents-risks/ - Publisher: Hostinger - Published: 2026-10-09T16:37:42.000Z - Topics: insights Conversations about AI agents tend to fall into one of two camps. In one, they’re a step toward catastrophe. In the other, they’re just another tool, no riskier than the software … The post Could AI agents be the end of us? The more immediate risk is quieter appeared first on Hostinger Blog. ## 14. Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build - Canonical: https://github.blog/developer-skills/career-growth/hack-the-world-why-hackathons-are-still-the-best-place-to-learn-to-build/ - Publisher: GitHub Old - Published: 2026-10-09T16:00:00.000Z - Topics: career-growth, developer-skills, career-development, hackathon The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ## 15. Vue 3 Composition API: Stop Watcher Memory Leaks in Composables - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/vue-3-composition-api-watcher-lifecycle/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T15:45:47.000Z How to manage watcher lifecycles and cleanup in Vue 3 composables, preventing memory leaks when watchers are created outside synchronous setup. Continue reading Vue 3 Composition API: Stop Watcher Memory Leaks in Composables on SitePoint. ## 16. JavaScript Event Loop Explained: How to Trace Queues and Debug Async Code - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/javascript-event-loop-explained-debugging-guide/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T15:45:36.000Z Predict async execution order, identify microtask starvation, and compare browser and Node.js event loop behavior using step-by-step queue trace tables and annotated code snippets. Continue reading JavaScript Event Loop Explained: How to Trace Queues and Debug Async Code on SitePoint. ## 17. Express React Refresh Token Setup: Diagnosing Missing Cookies and 401s - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/express-react-refresh-token-cookie-diagnosis/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T15:45:24.000Z Fix missing HTTP-only refresh cookies in Express 5 and React, configure CORS and cookie options, and implement silent token rotation with single-flight retry on 401s. Continue reading Express React Refresh Token Setup: Diagnosing Missing Cookies and 401s on SitePoint. ## 18. How to Review AI-Generated Pull Requests and Catch Duplicate Types - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/review-ai-generated-pull-requests/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T15:45:07.000Z Catch duplicate types, reimplemented utilities, and weakened CI checks in agent-authored PRs using targeted review checklists, ESLint, and diff-based CI heuristics. Continue reading How to Review AI-Generated Pull Requests and Catch Duplicate Types on SitePoint. ## 19. From Activity to Intent: Generating User Journeys with LLMs - Canonical: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/from-activity-to-intent-generating-user-journeys-with-llms-9652b9417626 - Publisher: Pinterest - Published: 2026-10-09T15:01:02.000Z - Topics: user-experience, machine-learning, pinterest, infrastructure, engineering Lin Zhu | Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Manan Kalra | Machine Learning Engineer II; Logan Jeon | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Ye Liu | Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Xiangyi Chen | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Jaewon Yang | Principal Machine Learning Engineer; Jinwen Xu | Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering; Tingting Zhu | Sr. Manager, Engineering; Sudarshan Lamkhede | Director, Machine Learning EngineeringPinterest is built to get inspired and then turn the inspiration into realization — a dinner, a renovation, a wedding, a new skill. That only works if we understand more… ## 20. A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages - Canonical: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/09/a-treatise-on-model-oriented-programming-languages/ - Publisher: Stack Overflow - Published: 2026-10-09T14:59:04.000Z - Topics: programming-language, building-software, contributed, cc-by-sa Thirteen years ago I developed to my knowledge the first and currently the only fully featured model oriented programming language and IDE. I utilized this technology (Mo+) to great effect on my own and workplace enterprise projects, but failed to sell the ideas to a wider audience. Six years ago I left my software engineering career in favor of wielding an ax and building Viking and Anglo Saxon ships in Norway, UK and other future places in Scandinavia. Even so, I still think about model oriented programming from time to time and its potential. The purpose of this article is not about the… ## 21. How iSAM Funds built an options research platform for a 10,000x data problem with ClickHouse Cloud - Canonical: https://clickhouse.com/blog/isam-market-data-research-platform - Publisher: Clickhouse - Published: 2026-10-09T14:30:04.385Z iSAM Funds uses ClickHouse Cloud to research full options history, achieving 35–50x compression and 100x faster single-core ingestion while simplifying its data pipelines. ## 22. Modern Web Automation With Python and Selenium - Canonical: https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T14:00:00.000Z Selenium is a web automation tool that allows you to use Python to programmatically interact with dynamic, JavaScript-generated web pages. Your Python Selenium code drives a real browser that you can instruct to fill out forms, click buttons, scrape dynamically generated data, or write automated tests for web applications. By implementing the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern, you can create clean and scalable automation scripts that are straightforward to read and maintain. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: Selenium allows you to launch browsers, visit URLs, and… ## 23. Hugging Face Transformers: Leverage Open-Source AI in Python - Canonical: https://realpython.com/huggingface-transformers/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T14:00:00.000Z Transformers is a powerful Python library created by Hugging Face that allows you to download, manipulate, and run thousands of pretrained, open-source AI models. These models cover multiple tasks across modalities like natural language processing, computer vision, audio, and multimodal learning. Using pretrained open-source models can reduce costs, save the time needed to train models from scratch, and give you more control over the models you deploy. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: Hugging Face Transformers is a Python library for downloading and running pretrained… ## 24. Generate Images in Python With OpenAI's GPT Image API - Canonical: https://realpython.com/generate-images-openai/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T14:00:00.000Z You’ve probably asked ChatGPT for a picture and watched one appear a few seconds later. The same models also sit behind OpenAI’s GPT Image API, so you can generate images from your own Python code instead of a chat window. You send a prompt, and image data comes back for your script to work with. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: You generate images from a text prompt by calling client.images.generate() with a GPT Image model like gpt-image-2.5-flare. Image data always arrives Base64-encoded in .b64_json, so you save it as a file with b64decode(). You choose your image’s… ## 25. Build a multi-tenant platform with OpenShift Dev Spaces - Canonical: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/09/build-multi-tenant-platform-openshift-dev-spaces - Publisher: Red Hat - Published: 2026-10-09T13:01:47.000Z For platform teams building cloud-native software, the local developer workstation has evolved from a productivity tool into an operational risk. Developers lose valuable time wrestling with local VM setups or hunting down "works on my machine" bugs. As local environments diverge, architectural friction stalls engineering progress and pulls platform teams into endless troubleshooting. The post Build a multi-tenant platform with OpenShift Dev Spaces appeared first on Red Hat Developer. ## 26. Deno is joining Cloudflare - Canonical: https://blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-cloudflare/ - Publisher: Cloudflare - Published: 2026-10-09T12:50:00.000Z - Topics: acquisitions, durable-objects, javascript, workers The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places. ## 27. Measuring How Fast Your IIoT Queries Are Degrading - Canonical: https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/measuring-how-fast-iiot-queries-degrading - Publisher: Timescale - Published: 2026-10-09T12:00:40.000Z - Topics: iot, postgresql Stop waiting for the dashboard to get slow. Record latency against row count, fit the curve, and get a date when your query breaches its target. ## 28. Reduce AI Decision Fatigue: Lessons from Game Design - Canonical: https://spin.atomicobject.com/ai-decision-fatigue-game-design/ - Publisher: Atomic Object - Published: 2026-10-09T12:00:09.000Z - Topics: ai-for-developers, mocks, artificial-intelligence, coding I have been facing a significant amount of decision fatigue when using AI for development. I’ll spend close to eight hours a day, five days of the week, prompting, planning, and reviewing code. This leads to decision fatigue, where I become less able to make sound decisions as the day goes on. Growing fatigue impacts […] The post Reduce AI Decision Fatigue: Lessons from Game Design appeared first on Atomic Spin. ## 29. The Real Python Podcast – Episode #314: Codemoo: Demonstrating How Coding Agents Work - Canonical: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/314/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T12:00:00.000Z How do you assemble the core pieces of a coding agent? How are developers defining projects through conversation and introspection? This week on the show, Geir Arne Hjelle returns to talk about his recent project to demonstrate how coding agents work under the hood. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ] ## 30. Quiz: Generate Images in Python With OpenAI's GPT Image API - Canonical: https://realpython.com/quizzes/generate-images-openai/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T12:00:00.000Z In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Generate Images in Python With OpenAI’s GPT Image API. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to install the OpenAI Python library, store your API key, generate images from text prompts with the GPT Image models, tune their size and quality, decode Base64 responses into PNG files, and edit an image with a follow-up prompt. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ] ## 31. Quiz: Python Basics Exercises: Strings and String Methods - Canonical: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-exercises-string-methods/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-09T12:00:00.000Z In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python Basics Exercises: Strings and String Methods. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to slice strings, change their case, strip whitespace, check how a string starts, chain string methods together, and format values for printing. Working with text is one of the most common tasks in Python, so these skills will come up again and again. Take your time with each question, and read the explanations to reinforce what you’ve practiced. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your… ## 32. Designing Apps for AI Agent Phones: 6 Checks Developers Should Make Before Granting Access - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/designing-apps-for-ai-agent-phones-6-checks-developers-should-make-before-granting-access/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T11:53:35.000Z null Continue reading Designing Apps for AI Agent Phones: 6 Checks Developers Should Make Before Granting Access on SitePoint. ## 33. What 34,582 .si domains say about the Super Intelligence rush (and why so few mention AI) - Canonical: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/si-domains-super-intelligence-rush/ - Publisher: Hostinger - Published: 2026-10-09T11:04:42.000Z - Topics: insights Until a few weeks ago, .si was a quiet country domain used mostly by Slovenian businesses. Then Washington decided AI needed a new name. “Artificial,” turns out, sounds fake. So n… The post What 34,582 .si domains say about the Super Intelligence rush (and why so few mention AI) appeared first on Hostinger Blog. ## 34. What 34,582 .si domains say about the Super Intelligence rush (and why so few mention AI) - Canonical: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/si-domains/ - Publisher: Hostinger - Published: 2026-10-09T11:04:42.000Z - Topics: insights Until a few weeks ago, .si was a quiet country domain used mostly by Slovenian businesses. Then Washington decided AI needed a new name. “Artificial,” turns out, sounds fake. So n… The post What 34,582 .si domains say about the Super Intelligence rush (and why so few mention AI) appeared first on Hostinger Blog. ## 35. ★ Typed routes from Laravel to React with Wayfinder - Canonical: https://freek.dev/3088-typed-routes-from-laravel-to-react-with-wayfinder - Publisher: Freek Van der Herten - Published: 2026-10-09T10:30:14.000Z I've been writing about There There a lot lately. It's a helpdesk we're building at Spatie, born from two decades of running our own customer support for our open source work and SaaS apps. After all that time being the customer of other helpdesks, we finally started on the one we actually wanted to use. Our take on AI here is to aim it at the support agent, not the customer. The human owns the conversation. The model makes the reply a little cleaner and a little faster. There There is in private beta, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app. We're building There There with… ## 36. Semaphore Open Source 1.6: MCP Server, sem-ai Out of the Box, and Partial Job Reruns - Canonical: https://semaphore.io/blog/semaphore-open-source-1.6-mcp-server-sem-ai-out-of-the-box-and-partial-job-reruns - Publisher: Semaphore Engineering - Published: 2026-10-09T10:14:08.000Z - Topics: audio, product-news, video The MCP server and sem-ai are coming to Semaphore open source. Version 1.6 arrives exactly one year after 1.5 and packages up around 494 pull requests of new capabilities, built over the past year and now shared with the community. What Shipped MCP server in the open source editions The MCP server is now included […] The post Semaphore Open Source 1.6: MCP Server, sem-ai Out of the Box, and Partial Job Reruns appeared first on Semaphore. ## 37. Best SOC 2 Software in 2026: 10 Platforms Ranked by Audit Readiness - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/best-soc-2-software/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-09T09:34:06.000Z The best SOC 2 software in 2026, ranked by how fast each platform gets you from kickoff to a signed audit report - not by feature-list length. Continue reading Best SOC 2 Software in 2026: 10 Platforms Ranked by Audit Readiness on SitePoint. ## 38. The Agentic Code Review Loop - Canonical: https://www.robinwieruch.de/agentic-code-review-loop/ - Publisher: Robin Wieruch - Published: 2026-10-09T06:50:46.000Z - Topics: ai-engineer An agentic code review loop where every developer fires their own AI review skill at a pull request, the author's agent answers, and a scorecard rates each. ## 39. Five takeaways from Extract Summit 2026 Austin - Canonical: https://www.zyte.com/blog/extract-austin-2026-takeaways/ - Publisher: Scrapinghub - Published: 2026-10-09T06:30:54.000Z AI is making web scraping faster - but dependable data takes more than working code. Quality, provenance, self-repair, access and responsibility are the new edge. ## 40. Taking a look under your agent’s hood - Canonical: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/09/taking-a-look-under-your-agent-s-hood/ - Publisher: Stack Overflow - Published: 2026-10-09T06:30:06.795Z - Topics: podcast, se-tech, se-stackoverflow, observability, ai Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and production workflows, and navigating emerging challenges in AI security and tokenomics. ## 41. Error'd: Fast Quick - Canonical: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/fast-quick - Publisher: The Daily WTF - Published: 2026-10-09T06:30:00.000Z - Topics: error-d Matias shared a standard sort of flubstituted fail-merge error'd; not really egregious, just routine. "I am {{emotionType}} to hear this." And another mail-not-merged from Reinier B. "When the package from [SELLER] seemed to be lost in the mail, I was very [EMOTIONAL_STATE] with the refund of [AMOUNT]. I can now buy another [ITEM] instead." Dave A. didn't care for this mail flub, though it's hardly egregious in my opinion. He suggested we just label it with "A short description of snarky comments." "I've_missed_you_too" Willy wrote in response to this earnest email. "Long lasting… ## 42. Build a Secure TypeScript MCP Client with Cross App Access (XAA) - Canonical: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2026/10/09/typescript-mcp-sdk-cross-app-access - Publisher: Okta - Published: 2026-10-09T05:00:00.000Z Enterprise apps rarely work alone. Imagine this scenario: HR wants to ensure that a new employee completes their new hire onboarding, and they want this verification in the company’s HR app so it’s tied to the employee’s personnel file. But the onboarding tasks come from a task-tracking tool with requirements defined by each department, from a different vendor and on a different domain than the HR app. It’s on IT to bridge the two. Wiring the two together normally costs the user an OAuth consent screen or costs IT a shared service account. Cross App Access (XAA) removes that step. The… ## 43. How Rillet ships 3× faster with AI agents on Vercel - Canonical: https://vercel.com/blog/how-rillet-ships-3-faster-with-ai-agents-on-vercel - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T04:00:00.000Z Rillet on Vercel Tripled shipping rate in three months with eve agents deployed on Vercel Two-person team closed 800+ Linear tickets in its first 4 months Builder access via Enterprise Managed Users, SSO, and Directory Sync Ships customer-requested changes to production in as little as two hours Gives every builder access to models through AI Gateway Rillet is an AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform. Their AI agents do accounting work inside a real-time general ledger, with human approval and a full audit trail. Rillet serves more than 600 customers working toward a zero-day… ## 44. A 1998 PDF-to-Text Converter - Canonical: https://code.dblock.org/2026/10/09/a-1998-pdf-to-text-converter.html - Publisher: Daniel Doubrovkine (dB.) - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z In 1998 I needed to convert PDF files to text for a search engine called Alkaline, without requiring separately installed libraries. So I wrote a C++ parser. Alkaline is another story. I recovered the source from a backup dated December 26, 1998. It reads PDF 1.0 through 1.2, follows object references and page trees, decompresses content with bundled zlib, and prints metadata, page text and bookmark titles. There are my own string, vector and hash-table libraries in there too. The encryption code is a stub. This was a work in progress. I wasn’t reverse engineering an undocumented format.… ## 45. Microsoft Decision-1 now available on AI Gateway - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/microsoft-decision-1-now-available-on-ai-gateway - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Decision-1 from Microsoft is now available on AI Gateway. It answers typed questions about text with probabilities, choices, and scores. It can be used to classify support requests, select the next step in a workflow, or assess an AI response against a rubric. The model can answer yes/no questions, choose among named categories, or score an input against an ordered set of criteria. Multiple questions can share the same input in one request. Choice and score answers include probabilities for each option, so your application can decide when to act or send an uncertain result for review. Call… ## 46. Leadership in the age of AI agents - Canonical: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/leadership/leadership-in-the-age-of-agents - Publisher: ThoughtWorks - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Delegation will also vary across the strategy-to-execution chain. Identifying signals, forming hypotheses, prioritizing investments and executing initiatives involve different levels of ambiguity and consequence, so they should not inherit the same human-agent decision rights. Recent research from MIT's CISR offers a genuinely useful lens here: decisions should be split between human and AI based on two dimensions, i.e., ambiguity and risk, and the split isn't binary but plays out across three activities: framing a decision, acting on it and learning from the outcome. Framing: Deciding what's… ## 47. Android on iOS, Web & Desktop Efficiently and for Free - Canonical: https://www.codenameone.com/blog/android-apps-beyond-android/ - Publisher: CodeName One - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Compile Android apps for iOS, web and desktop with a free, open-source compatibility layer. Try the browser demo, see the iOS binary size and migrate one screen at a time. ## 48. Liquid AI's d1 is available on AI Gateway - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/liquid-ai-d1-is-available-on-ai-gateway - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Liquid d1 is now available on AI Gateway. d1 is a decision model that evaluates shared state against typed questions for classification, routing, and scoring. It returns structured answers with probabilities without generating text tokens. d1 also has vision support: the model can answer typed questions about images for visual classification, inspection, and scoring. Use liquid/d1 through the AI SDK decision API, the OpenAI-compatible Decisions API, or the TypeSafe-compatible API. These examples ask whether a support agent issued a refund: Image input This example reads a local PNG named… ## 49. The leadership contract behind effective program delivery - Canonical: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/leadership/leadership-contract-effective-program-delivery - Publisher: ThoughtWorks - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z The transition into delivery is a change program in its own right One recurring failure point is the transition from discovery into delivery. Discovery creates insight, decisions and possible solutions. Delivery requires a shared operating rhythm, clear ownership, usable backlogs, agreed evidence, realistic capacity and a way to handle what is still unknown. The assumption that teams will naturally move from one mode to the other is dangerous. A deliberate transition should make the first delivery period explicit: What outcome is being pursued? What is the smallest valuable slice? What is… ## 50. Multi-Tenant SaaS Apps with Auth0 Organizations — Part One - Canonical: https://auth0.com/blog/multi-tenant-saas-apps-with-auth0-organizations-part-one/ - Publisher: Auth0 - Published: 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z If you are building a B2B SaaS product multi-tenancy is a foundational requirement. Your customers are companies, and each company expects its own isolated space. Getting this right early saves enormous pain later. ## 51. Running Laravel's Scheduler on Multiple Servers - Canonical: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-scheduler-multiple-servers - Publisher: Laravel - Published: 2026-10-08T22:14:01.000Z Laravel 13.35 adds Schedule::alwaysOnOneServer() to run every task once across servers, and a way for long scheduled commands to stop during a deploy. The post Running Laravel's Scheduler on Multiple Servers appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox. ## 52. Secure Cookies with SameSite: Lax, Strict, and Cross-Site Rules - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/secure-cookies-samesite-reference/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T22:00:57.000Z A technical reference on configuring SameSite cookie attributes (Strict, Lax, None) alongside Secure and HttpOnly flags, with implementation patterns for Express, Next.js, and Django. Continue reading Secure Cookies with SameSite: Lax, Strict, and Cross-Site Rules on SitePoint. ## 53. Cloudflare Web Search API for AI Agents: Build a Grounded Worker - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/cloudflare-web-search-api-ai-agent-tutorial/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T22:00:45.000Z Build a Cloudflare Worker that grounds AI agents with live web results using the Web Search API (beta), and evaluate the trade-offs between AI Gateway, direct providers, and aggregators. Continue reading Cloudflare Web Search API for AI Agents: Build a Grounded Worker on SitePoint. ## 54. TypeScript Generics Examples: Fetch Wrappers, Forms, and UI Components - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/typescript-generics-examples-practical-guide/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T21:59:55.000Z Build typed fetch wrappers, form validators, and polymorphic React components using TypeScript generics, with runtime validation boundaries and a decision table comparing generics, unions, and schema inference. Continue reading TypeScript Generics Examples: Fetch Wrappers, Forms, and UI Components on SitePoint. ## 55. React Dialog Exit Animation: Fixing Broken Transitions on Unmount - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/react-dialog-exit-animation-troubleshooting/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T21:59:43.000Z Diagnose why conditional rendering breaks exit animations in React dialogs, then evaluate delayed unmount states, Motion's AnimatePresence, Radix UI, native dialogs, and View Transitions. Continue reading React Dialog Exit Animation: Fixing Broken Transitions on Unmount on SitePoint. ## 56. Playwright 1.64 WebMCP Testing: How to Inspect and Call Page Tools - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/playwright-1-64-webmcp-testing/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T21:59:27.000Z Test pages exposing WebMCP tools using the page.webmcp API introduced in Playwright 1.64. Learn how to launch Chromium with the required flag, discover page-registered tools, execute calls, and assert results. Continue reading Playwright 1.64 WebMCP Testing: How to Inspect and Call Page Tools on SitePoint. ## 57. Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: How to Calculate Production Costs and Migrate - Canonical: https://www.sitepoint.com/claude-haiku-5-5-pricing-cost-model-migration/ - Publisher: SitePoint - Published: 2026-10-08T21:58:37.000Z Model production workload costs under Claude Haiku 5.5's two-tier rates, account for the 100k-token pricing threshold, and plan a phased migration from Haiku 4.5. Continue reading Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: How to Calculate Production Costs and Migrate on SitePoint. ## 58. Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents - Canonical: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/developers-simulation-frontier-ai-agents/ - Publisher: Nvidia - Published: 2026-10-08T21:06:35.000Z - Topics: robotics, agentic-ai, into-the-omniverse, nvidia-isaac-sim, omniverse Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry out that work — building applications for exploring scenarios, investigating failures and improving designs. Developers direct AI agents through […] ## 59. How we migrated Clera’s 500 GB production database to ClickHouse Managed Postgres overnight - Canonical: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clera-migrates-to-clickhouse-managed-postgres - Publisher: Clickhouse - Published: 2026-10-08T20:51:48.000Z Clera migrated its 500 GB production database and 500+ tables to ClickHouse Managed Postgres overnight, cutting CPU usage from 100% to 10–20%. ## 60. Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide - Canonical: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/08/production-grade-llms-and-agents-a-field-guide/ - Publisher: Stack Overflow - Published: 2026-10-08T20:22:56.000Z - Topics: ai, contributed, building-software, cc-by-sa A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer. ## 61. Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath - Canonical: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/08/part-5-operating-an-llm-system-observability-cost-routing-and-the-platform-underneath/ - Publisher: Stack Overflow - Published: 2026-10-08T20:08:53.000Z - Topics: ai, building-software, contributed, cc-by-sa Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the infrastructure that lets you see your decisions, bound your spend, route and fail over between models, kill bad behavior in seconds — and the platform that makes all of it possible. ## 62. Hotword detection in FHE on GPU in 350ms - Canonical: https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-10-08-1120/ - Publisher: Jeremy Kun - Published: 2026-10-08T18:20:29.000Z A quick update on our homomorphic encryption compiler HEIR: our partners at Belfort have a hotword detector in FHE that runs in 350ms. More specifically, they launched a live demo at hotword.belfortlabs.com, that has a little game inspired by the NY Times Connections puzzle. Instead of typing in your guess for the word that connects a group of clues, you say it out loud. Your audio is encrypted under FHE, transitted to their server, and a hotword detector runs on it to determine which word you said (still encrypted). ## 63. How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate - Canonical: https://github.blog/security/how-one-bug-bounty-researcher-chooses-the-features-they-investigate/ - Publisher: GitHub Old - Published: 2026-10-08T17:02:52.000Z - Topics: security, bug-bounty, cybersecurity As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ## 64. Skip sending request bodies to Routing Middleware - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/skip-sending-request-bodies-to-routing-middleware - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-08T16:05:00.000Z You can now skip sending client request bodies to Routing Middleware with skipMiddlewareRequestBody. This reduces incoming Fast Origin Transfer usage for middleware invocations and can improve time to first byte, especially for requests with large bodies. Enable this option only if your Routing Middleware doesn’t read request bodies. Vercel Functions and rewrite targets still receive the body, so you can read and process it there. Set skipMiddlewareRequestBody to true in your project’s JSON configuration file, vercel.json: If you use a TypeScript configuration file, add the same setting to… ## 65. Why Junior Developers Might Know More About AI Than Seniors - Canonical: https://realpython.com/junior-developers-ahead-on-ai/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z When I talk to developers in stable, more senior roles, I keep noticing the same thing: many haven’t had time to properly try AI coding tools. If you’re a junior who’s spent the last few months experimenting, you may have more hands-on AI experience than they do. The reasons have nothing to do with senior developers being slow or stubborn. They come down to time and a kind of caution that I think is well placed. I talk about this, along with more advice for junior developers, in this community video: Free Starter Kit: Click here to get the Junior Dev AI Starter Kit with cheat sheets, a video… ## 66. If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? - Canonical: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261008-00/?p=112762%2F - Publisher: Raymond Chen - Published: 2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z Not always. The post If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? appeared first on The Old New Thing. ## 67. What Is Meta Muse? A Plain-English Guide to Meta's New AI - Canonical: https://realpython.com/what-is-meta-muse/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z Meta recently released their new personal AI agent named Meta Muse. However, behind this name isn’t just “one thing”. Meta also uses the Muse name for an upcoming pocket gadget and for the AI models that programmers use to build apps. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand which Muse is which and whether it’s worth trying. No coding experience required. To see which part of Muse fits you, find your situation in the table below: Your situation Recommendation Want an assistant that answers questions and handles errands like shopping or booking travel The Muse app Want a pocket-sized… ## 68. A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened - Canonical: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/08/a-green-exit-code-is-not-evidence-that-the-work-happened/ - Publisher: Stack Overflow - Published: 2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z - Topics: ai, building-software, se-tech, se-stackoverflow Agents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape. It's that the feedback loop you would need in order to learn the tool is broken at the point of measurement. ## 69. Manage RHEL with MCP servers and Red Hat Lightspeed - Canonical: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/manage-rhel-mcp-servers-and-red-hat-lightspeed - Publisher: Red Hat - Published: 2026-10-08T13:01:46.000Z At the 2026 Red Hat Summit, we offered a hands-on lab titled "AI-powered Red Hat Enterprise Linux management: Get hands-on with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Red Hat Lightspeed, Satellite, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux." The post Manage RHEL with MCP servers and Red Hat Lightspeed appeared first on Red Hat Developer. ## 70. Egress network quality of service on Red Hat OpenShift - Canonical: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/egress-network-quality-of-service-on-red-hat-openshift - Publisher: Red Hat - Published: 2026-10-08T13:01:45.000Z In this article, we explore what network quality of service (QoS) means, preview an upcoming native capability that's addressing it declaratively, and then step through a practical solution you can deploy today using the Linux traffic control (tc) command. We'll set up a full reproducer lab, run it, and look at real test results that demonstrate production traffic maintaining throughput while background traffic is deprioritised under contention. The post Egress network quality of service on Red Hat OpenShift appeared first on Red Hat Developer. ## 71. Migration toolkit for applications 8.3: Agentic code modernization, PVC mobility, and out-of-the-box generators - Canonical: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/migration-toolkit-applications-8-3-agentic-code-modernization - Publisher: Red Hat - Published: 2026-10-08T13:01:43.000Z Red Hat's migration toolkit for applications 8.3 is now generally available, bringing agentic code modernization, direct storage mobility, and automated pipeline generation to OpenShift. Upgrading workloads to cloud-native architectures often means struggling with legacy code and complex stateful data transfers. Migration toolkit for applications 8.3 simplifies this process with automated multi-agent code transformation, live storage migrations, and pre-built deployment pipelines. The post Migration toolkit for applications 8.3: Agentic code modernization, PVC mobility, and out-of-the-box… ## 72. Rally Up: ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Launches on GeForce NOW - Canonical: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-gears-of-war-e-day/ - Publisher: Nvidia - Published: 2026-10-08T13:00:46.000Z - Topics: gaming, cloud-gaming, geforce-now Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV users will soon be able to purchase GeForce NOW memberships directly through […] ## 73. Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign - Canonical: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-redesign/ - Publisher: Cloudflare - Published: 2026-10-08T13:00:00.000Z - Topics: internship-experience, radar We redesigned Cloudflare Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to a wider audience — including journalists, less technical researchers, and everyday users. By introducing an interactive map and standardized components, we simplified navigation while preserving technical depth. ## 74. Explainable AI: If You Can’t Evaluate It, Can You Trust It? - Canonical: https://medium.com/feedzaitech/explainable-ai-if-you-cant-evaluate-it-can-you-trust-it-2cbfc35568e8 - Publisher: Feedzai - Published: 2026-10-08T12:32:24.000Z - Topics: explainable-ai, shap, ml-evaluation, machine-learning, hci Machine learning models increasingly support decisions that carry real consequences. For example, they help fraud analysts identify suspicious transactions, assist doctors in assessing patient risk, and inform hiring decisions that can shape people’s careers.As these models become more complex, explainability has become a cornerstone of trustworthy AI. The idea is straightforward: if people understand why a model reached a particular prediction, they should be able to make better, more informed decisions.But there is a fundamental question that often goes unasked: How do we know whether an… ## 75. Give a Modal Its Own URL in TanStack Router - Canonical: https://spin.atomicobject.com/modal-own-url-tanstack-router/ - Publisher: Atomic Object - Published: 2026-10-08T12:00:06.000Z - Topics: tanstack I recently built an app whose main screen is a wall of photos. Every item is a card in a masonry grid, and a sidebar of filters narrows the wall down. Click a card, and a detail dialog opens over the grid. I wanted that dialog to have a URL. Copy the address bar, send […] The post Give a Modal Its Own URL in TanStack Router appeared first on Atomic Spin. ## 76. Quiz: Python, Boto3, and AWS S3: Demystified - Canonical: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-boto3-aws-s3/ - Publisher: Real Python - Published: 2026-10-08T12:00:00.000Z In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python, Boto3, and AWS S3: Demystified. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to connect to S3 through a client or a resource, create buckets and objects, upload files, and configure storage classes and versioning. You’ll also check how to traverse your buckets, clear out a versioned bucket, and decide when to reach for Boto3 instead of an Infrastructure as Code tool. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see… ## 77. Why BigQuery can’t match ClickHouse Cloud for real-time analytics - Canonical: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-vs-bigquery-real-time-performance-per-dollar - Publisher: Clickhouse - Published: 2026-10-08T10:49:15.000Z ClickHouse Cloud delivered 438× better performance per dollar than BigQuery in CostBench. We trace the gap from fresh data arriving to fast answers coming back. ## 78. ★ Laravel AI SDK in practice: the agent behind There There - Canonical: https://freek.dev/3089-laravel-ai-sdk-in-practice-the-agent-behind-there-there - Publisher: Freek Van der Herten - Published: 2026-10-08T10:30:24.000Z Over the past few weeks I've posted a couple of times about There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie. After two decades of running our own customer support, we decided to stop compromising on tools and build the one we actually want to use. A lot of the fun is on the AI side. We're not using it to replace support agents, we're using it to make them faster. The human reads the ticket, thinks, and clicks a button. The model pulls up relevant history, drafts a reply, tags the ticket, closes a duplicate. There There is in private beta right now, and you can apply for early access at… ## 79. C’est pas parce qu’on a défini des OKR qu’on a de l’impact ! - Canonical: https://blog.octo.com/l'iceberg-okr - Publisher: OCTO Technology - Published: 2026-10-08T09:54:10.000Z - Topics: product--and--design, coaching, strat-gie, transformation, product-management Définir des OKR ne garantit ni l’alignement ni l’impact. Trop souvent, la dynamique s’éteint dès la fin des ateliers : objectifs oubliés, rituels absents, résultats invisibles. Derrière la partie visible de l'iceberg se cache tout ce qui fait vraiment la différence. Découvrez comment transformer vos intentions stratégiques en impact réel. ## 80. Webinar | DIY Market Research – How to get expert-level insights without an expert research team - Canonical: https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/diy-research-how-to-get-expert-level-human-insights/?ut_source=rss - Publisher: SurveyMonkey - Published: 2026-10-08T09:36:00.000Z Got a product idea to validate, messaging to test, or a market trend to understand? Learn how to run your own market research study, without a dedicated research team or massive budget. In this hands-on session, go step-by-step from defining the right research question to designing your study, reaching the right audience, and turning responses into insights you can act on. See how AI can help you move faster, without sacrificing the quality of your research. You'll leave with: Fill out the form to access: ## 81. Can Agentic AI Find the Security Vulnerabilities Other Tests Miss? - Canonical: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/can-agentic-ai-find-the-security-vulnerabilities-other-tests-miss/ - Publisher: Erlang Solutions - Published: 2026-10-08T08:40:46.000Z - Topics: thought-leadership, agentic-ai, erlang, erlang-otp Security teams are good at finding problems. The difficult part is finding the right problems across a growing codebase, a changing application and the connections between them. A scanner can flag a known pattern quickly. A skilled tester can follow a complicated line of enquiry. Neither has unlimited time, and there will always be a question nobody thought to ask. Could AI agents take on more of that investigative work? I think the answer is yes, provided we are precise about what “find” means. Agents can produce leads, test assumptions and uncover issues that established checks have missed.… ## 82. Guide to the OWASP LLM Top 10 - Canonical: https://nordicapis.com/guide-to-the-owasp-llm-top-10/ - Publisher: Nordic APIs - Published: 2026-10-08T07:00:00.000Z - Topics: blog, security, access-control, api-security, api-vulnerabilities Large language models (LLMs) have become mainstream. Recent estimates suggest there are over 1.1 billion ChatGPT users. LLMs and AI agents have become a part of every aspect of our lives, from writing emails to coding and everything in between. Yet, this scenario is a cybersecurity incident waiting to happen. Many developers aren’t used to ... ## 83. Racing Trains - Canonical: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/racing-trains - Publisher: The Daily WTF - Published: 2026-10-08T06:30:00.000Z - Topics: feature-articles Robert G sends us a WTF from the outside, but I think we can come up with some hypotheses about what actually happened. Robert was traveling by train. For complicated train reasons, the car he was seated on was not actually scheduled to continue with the train he was booked to ride, the replacement can missed its scheduled arrival, and the result was that Robert was left at a station needing to rebook his travel. Now, given that this is in a region of the world with a fairly robust train network, this represented a hiccup of thirty minutes in a many hour trip. Not a particularly big deal. But… ## 84. Vercel Sandbox creation now returns a ready sandbox - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/sandbox-create-waits-until-ready - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-08T06:00:00.000Z A new Vercel Sandbox is now ready to run commands and read or write files when creation completes. Sandbox.create() now resolves only after snapshot restoration completes, so the first command or file operation no longer waits for it. Startup errors also reject Sandbox.create() instead of surfacing during that operation. Snapshot restoration time now counts toward creation instead of the first operation. Creation is about 50 ms longer at p50, with a larger increase possible for uncached snapshots. The total time through the first operation remains the same. This change applies automatically,… ## 85. NLP for Sentiment Analysis: How It Works and Why It Matters for Business - Canonical: https://www.toptal.com/developers/natural-language-processing/nlp-for-sentiment-analysis - Publisher: Toptal - Published: 2026-10-08T05:00:00.000Z Discover why sentiment analysis is becoming a core enterprise capability, with modern NLP techniques providing a deeper understanding of the customer experience than ever before. ## 86. How solo founders build and run their businesses online - Canonical: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/solo-founder-digital-habits/ - Publisher: Hostinger - Published: 2026-10-08T04:03:43.000Z - Topics: uncategorized Running a business on your own means deciding what deserves your time and budget. A social media account might come first, while a website or email list waits until there's a clea… The post How solo founders build and run their businesses online appeared first on Hostinger Blog. ## 87. Refactoring The-Internet: Deploying the web app to Render - Canonical: https://www.tjmaher.com/2026/10/refactoring-theinternet-deploying-web.html - Publisher: T.J. Maher - Published: 2026-10-08T03:01:37.553Z We are well on our way to place a copy of my favorite test site, The-Internet, onto its new home on Render.com, a place where developers can deploy web apps using their free tier, much like Heroku in its heyday. Sure, web apps that live on the free tier of Render takes a minute or so to spin up, but, hey, you get what you pay for! With our last blog post, we: Examined using Google AI the Gemfile of the original The-Internet, a Ruby project at https://github.com/saucelabs/the-internet, hosting on the failing site, https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/ Created a new copy of the web app onto my… ## 88. Monte-Carlo simulations - Canonical: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/ - Publisher: Eli Bendersky - Published: 2026-10-08T02:34:00.000Z - Topics: misc, math, science, rust, python Monte Carlo simulations (or methods) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1]. In this post I want to provide examples of some simple uses of Monte Carlo simulations. We'll start with the classical example of calculating the value of \pi by throwing darts. Estimating pi Suppose we take a square board and inscribe a quarter of a circle into it. We then proceed to throw darts at the… ## 89. September 2026 Fraud Update: Phishing Trends, Third-party Safety and Latest Releases - Canonical: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/insights/best-practices/quarterly-fraud-update-sept-2026 - Publisher: Twilio - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z - Topics: industry-insights Discover Q3 2026 fraud trends. Detect the latest phishing tactics, secure third-party credentials, and learn about Twilio's new OAuth 2.0 and IP ACL security tools. ## 90. Real-world lessons in agentic authority and overreach - Canonical: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/real-world-lessons-agentic-authority-overreach - Publisher: ThoughtWorks - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z The way forward: Funding the infrastructure that makes autonomy scalable The controls around an AI agent aren’t a brake on adoption; they’re the infrastructure that lets an enterprise pursue the benefits of agentic AI with confidence, resilience and commercial defensibility. The Agentic Scope of Authority Framework turns that idea into decisions leaders can fund, assign and audit. The basic premise is simple: authority must be clear inside the enterprise and credible to everyone outside it. Actual authority is what people authorize and the architecture enforces: the task, limits, tools, data,… ## 91. Building a Multi-Channel AI Agent with Twilio Conversations and eve - Canonical: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/building-agent-twilio-conversations-eve - Publisher: Twilio - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z - Topics: developer-insights Learn how to build a multi-channel AI agent with Vercel's eve and Twilio Conversations. Unify SMS and WhatsApp into one thread, give your agent long-term customer memory with Twilio Memory Store, and swap the LLM with one line of TypeScript. ## 92. A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with Node.js - Canonical: https://deanhume.com/a-modern-guide-to-using-oauth-2-0-with-node-js/ - Publisher: Dean Hume - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z - Topics: oauth, nodejs 8 October 2026 · Dean Hume On this page On this page Prerequisites Step 1: Create a New Node.js Project Step 2: Install Required Packages Step 3: Configure Your OAuth Settings Step 4: Authenticate and Acquire a Token Step 5: Make an Authenticated API Call Optional: Set up an Entra ID test OAuth App Conclusion Ever followed an OAuth tutorial, copied the code, and then found out the library it uses was deprecated years ago? Yeah, me too. It's frustrating - especially when all you wanted was an access token. A little while ago I wrote A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with C# and Visual Studio… ## 93. Step 5 Preview now available on AI Gateway - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/step-5-preview-now-available-on-ai-gateway - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z Step 5 Preview, StepFun's flagship model, is now available on AI Gateway. It's built for agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and financial analysis, from building apps and debugging code to research and analytical reports. Step 5 Preview supports text and image input with a 1M-token context window, allowing you to work with large codebases, a stack of documents, or screenshots and charts in a single request. Use stepfun/step-5-preview as the model name: For other coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup: Then select… ## 94. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite on AI Gateway - Canonical: https://vercel.com/changelog/grok-imagine-video-1-5-lite-on-ai-gateway - Publisher: Vercel - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite from xAI is now available on AI Gateway. This lightweight model turns text prompts and images into video with native audio. The model produces clips from 1 to 15 seconds long in 480p, 720p, and 1080p. Seven aspect ratios cover widescreen, square, and portrait formats, so you can create horizontal scenes or vertical videos from the same generation workflow. To start generating videos, set the model to spacexai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite in the AI SDK. Chain an image model with Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite to create a still and animate it in one flow: You can also… ## 95. Unified Customer Communications: Twilio Voice, SMS, and WhatsApp meet Salesforce - Canonical: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/partners/integrations/voice-sms-whatsapp-salesforce - Publisher: Twilio - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z - Topics: partners---ecosystems Unify Twilio Voice, SMS, and WhatsApp directly in Salesforce with the new Partner Contact Center Integration. Eliminate the tab-swapping now. ## 96. When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job - Canonical: https://swizec.com/blog/when-code-is-cheap-judgement-becomes-the-job - Publisher: Swizec Teller - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z Software engineering has changed in the last 2 years. Here's how that looks without the fluff. Real company, big stakes, finite token budget ## 97. Don't Order Fish on Monday. Don't Release on Friday - Canonical: https://www.codenameone.com/blog/friday-release-better-gates/ - Publisher: CodeName One - Published: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z A difficult release week exposed an Apple API failure that passed device tests, leading to source and binary checks for undeclared SDK imports. ## 98. Node.js 26.11.1 (Current) - Canonical: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.11.1 - Publisher: Node.js - Published: 2026-10-07T23:56:26.000Z Antoine du Hamel 2026-10-07, Version 26.11.1 (Current), @aduh95 Commits [2dc4638e85] - Revert "build: toggle doc-kit verbosity based on V" (Antoine du Hamel) [3febbc54ec] - Revert "build, doc: move to redesign" (Antoine du Hamel) [173250e2e7] - Revert "tools: bump the doc group in /tools/doc with 4 updates" (Antoine du Hamel) Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v26.11.1/node-v26.11.1-x64.msi Windows ARM 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v26.11.1/node-v26.11.1-arm64.msi Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v26.11.1/win-x64/node.exe Windows ARM 64-bit Binary:… ## 99. Announcing Workday Data Connect federation in Unity Catalog - Canonical: https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-workday-data-connect-federation-unity-catalog - Publisher: Databricks - Published: 2026-10-07T23:00:28.594Z - Topics: platform, partners, unity-catalog We're excited to announce the publicly available Beta of the Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog... ## 100. Workbench: Building an AI Content Generation and Quality Assurance System at Scale - Canonical: https://medium.com/thumbtack-engineering/workbench-building-an-ai-content-generation-and-quality-assurance-system-at-scale-7a381b47c640 - Publisher: Thumbtack - Published: 2026-10-07T22:51:23.000Z - Topics: artificial-intelligence, marketing, engineering, data-science How Thumbtack built an AI pipeline that generates, evaluates, and refines marketing content at scale, maintaining human-level quality programmatically.The ChallengeThumbtack connects customers with local service professionals across a wide range of categories and geographies. For many customers, the first entry point to Thumbtack is a landing page. When someone searches Google for “plumber near me” or “duct cleaning Raleigh NC”, these pages are where they land, and they are the user’s first impression of the marketplace for that query. The footprint targeted by this work is roughly 500K such…