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Sep 12, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution

The previous article on Bazel remote caching concluded that using just a remote cache for Bazel builds was suboptimal due to limitations in what can and cannot be cached for security reasons. The r...

Sep 12, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

crates.io phishing attempt

Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: Andrew Gallant on BlueSky And it ...

Sep 12, 2025 from Virtuwise

Nvidia's Pivot: From Cloud Competitor to Chip Supplier

Nvidia steps back from cloud computing, rethinking its strategy to compete with AWS and other cloud giants.

Sep 11, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

Special interest infodump: a history of my celebrity crushes

Content Warning: childhood trauma, domestic abuse, sexual misconduct In a previous post about the connection between my selective mutism and childhood trauma, I wrote: I used to love singing at a v...

Sep 10, 2025 from Steve Blank

How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory

Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department o...

Sep 09, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

The Reserve Reviewer Policy

The Reserve Reviewer Policy is an experimental policy to help conferences scale to increased workloads. We outline its design and first implementation.

Sep 09, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 9

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

Sep 09, 2025 from Tim Hårek

A year with Go

August last year a coworker asked me if we could use Go for an upcoming project, integrating an invoice system to an ERP. We had been using mostly Node and Deno with TypeScript for all our needs to...

Sep 08, 2025 from Home on A blog

JavaZone 2025

JavaZone 2025—Scandinavia’s landmark developer conference—delivered an exciting, two-day immersion into the world of Java held for the first time at Nova Spektrum in Lillestrøm on September 3–4, 20...

Sep 08, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

color npm package compromised

On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package. Someone noticed and let Josh know: Charlie Eriks...

Sep 08, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

container, k8s, docker, podman

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Sep 08, 2025 from Silence Calling

Mountain of a Man

How is it that A man can have the presence of a mountain? A mountain like the grandeur of the Great Himalayas.

Sep 07, 2025 from Refereeing and Reflection

Supplement Supplemental! (Cthulhu Quickies, Delta Green Dangers, and a BRP Starter Pack)

Time for another entry in my regular series of articles on game supplements which have caught my eye and inspired some brief thoughts. This time around, it’s a Basic Roleplaying special; with spook...

Sep 07, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

9 Years of CFE.dev

Yeah, I'm pushing a decade of running CFE, which is crazy. Here's the history of the site that you never wanted.

Sep 05, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Understanding Bazel remote caching

The previous article on Bazel action non-determinism provided an introduction to actions: what they are, how they are defined, and how they act as the fundamental unit of execution in Bazel. What t...

Sep 05, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Ideas and Ideals

So things have been coming back up the back half of this week. I feel fortunate that I have more energy and don't have the same cloud as usual looming over me. An interesting thing happened yesterd...

Sep 04, 2025 from Rock and Null

AI everywhere: The hype, the misfits, and the inevitable maturity

AI is being added everywhere, often without solving real problems—just like mobile apps and blockchain before it. Over time, the hype will fade, and AI will quietly integrate into products where it...

Sep 03, 2025 from Jasco's Website

I don't like my iPhone

I talk about my history with iOS and Android devices, and my current dissatisfaction with my iPhone

Sep 03, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Resizing Images: PIL, cv2 and scikit-image

ℹ️ This is a really small piece of “nothing”, but it might save you (and future me) some time! Recently I started playing around with scikit-image library which is really cool. I found that they ha...

Sep 03, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Regulating the Mental Cache

It's been a while since I've written anything here, and there a few reasons for that. First, I got depressed again. I thought I had gotten over my last episode but was only okay for like a few days...