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2026-09-28 – 2026-10-04 · FromProduction

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Five engineering articles selected for recency and company variety. This is a discovery selection, not a popularity ranking. Full articles remain on their original sites. Clicks do not measure completed reading or technical quality.

Decision Models vs. CVE Data (opens on the source site)

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

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A new, bespoke static site generator to replace Jekyll (opens on the source site)

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…

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How to Install Python on Your System: A Guide (opens on the source site)

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…

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Strings and Character Data in Python (opens on the source site)

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…

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