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Architecture, implementation, authentication, and operations. Articles to inform critical decisions in development.


Outbound traffic in AI sandboxes: Auditing allowlists and trust boundaries

Where breaking points occur with default SELinux changes in Amazon Linux 2027

Behavioral change of DATE in MySQL 9.7 — an update where only the numbers quietly change

One morning, an untouched screen breaks: What htmx 4.0 avoided

Six months after incidents started auto-remediating, nobody can explain the root cause

The Outsourced Contract Is Over, but Repository Access Remains

Moving beyond the binary choice of accepting or declining all app permission requests

Android app quality requirements will change in 2027 — What to include in next term's maintenance budget

Delegating Development to AI for 130,000 Tasks/Month: What the Company Built First Was the Execution Environment

How far can AI be used in projects where code cannot leave premises? — The positioning of Junie Local

Edges start handling protocols beyond HTTP: Workers TCP ingress and gRPC

Bun 1.4 was rewritten in Rust — Should you adopt it for business systems?

Monthly patch deployments stopped succeeding: Four contract revisions for maintenance agreements

Written for readers a decade from now — Where to begin post-quantum cryptography migration

Meetings Where AI Adoption Dies with "That Data Cannot Leave the Building"

"Backup completed successfully" does not mean you can restore

Notice of server cost hikes arrives — Rising memory prices impacting estimates unrelated to AI

Chat discussions turn straight into code — Where to draw the boundary with contractors

The day GitHub went down for 8 hours: Outages halt more than just development

Even if labeled "S3-compatible," it doesn't come with S3's built-in protections

Before Adding Redis and Queues — How Far Can a Single Postgres Instance Go?

The Day You Grant AI Agents Write Access — Never Treat It Like Read-Only

When did support expire? — How to read boring major updates and EOL schedules

Who Fixes Base Image CVEs? Buildpacks Graduates from the CNCF

Do Your Contracts Specify Where Code Is Hosted? The Arrival of Cursor Origin

Manuals become outdated the day they are delivered — delivering procedures in a regenerable format

Accidents Happen Beyond the Endless Approval Clicks: Halting AI Agent Cascades

Install scripts disabled by default in npm 12: Silent failures are the hardest to troubleshoot

Shutting down a web service is harder than launching it: Deciding exit terms during procurement

An SQLite Bug Unnoticed for 16 Years: How Far Can We Rely on the Assumption That Things "Won't Break"?

When the database exports data on its own — Silent SQL injections without UI output

Phased publishing on npm: Moving away from CI-only unattended releases

AI Agent Approvals Provide No Safety Net: One in Three Overlooked

Abandoning the assumption that npm install runs arbitrary scripts: Exploring vlt 1.0

Never let "it only slows down occasionally" go unresolved — feeding traces to AI with WPA MCP

"A Critical Vulnerability Has Been Found" — That CVE Might Not Even Exist

Production environment permissions left in contractor accounts — How to switch to "granting access only when needed"

Former employees' accounts were disabled, yet non-human IDs used by systems remain active

When the reason for raising maintenance fees is "surging CI costs": How clients can audit the details
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