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How we wired up live browser debugging across a secure LAN of Linux boxes, discovered our networking layer had a bug hiding under another bug, and why letting Claude drive PowerShell directly turned a day of round-trips into a few minutes of commands. The problem we were actually trying to solve This wasn’t a networking…
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We have spent decades making HTTPS better. Today, when I connect to my bank, Google, Amazon, or almost any other major website, my browser performs a remarkably sophisticated series of cryptographic checks. It verifies the site’s TLS certificate, checks that the certificate chains back to a trusted Certificate Authority, makes sure the certificate matches the…
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You hover your inspector over a tiny icon. You see background-position: -832px -47px. You blink. You scroll to the top of the stylesheet and find a single PNG weighing 4.2 megabytes. You close the inspector and never speak of it again. To the young web developer: you will never know this pain. Nor this beauty.…
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Dear Medium, I recently tried to downgrade or cancel what I believed was my Medium membership. That should have been a routine task. Instead, I discovered something rather strange: Medium has apparently been charging me $5 per month for three years for a membership that my Medium account says I do not have. I am…
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When I started working at MGH in Boston in orientation they told us the story of how amazing it was to be in this great city of medicine. Then our orientation leader asked us to name the two hospital in Boston named after physicians. They gave us a hint that it was neither hospital was…
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When we think about major cyber attacks, we often picture sophisticated zero-day exploits or targeted phishing campaigns. But in July 2026, an estimated $88M+ in Bitcoin was drained from thousands of crypto wallets due to a much simpler, low-level flaw: weak cryptographic entropy. While this exploit hit Bitcoin hardware wallets, web developers should pay close…
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On July 28, 2026, we investigated a major WordPress exploit that was actively being used in the wild. One of our WordPress properties, let.live, was down, and that changed the question from “are we vulnerable?” to “were we compromised while vulnerable?” The short version: yes, let.live had been compromised. We found evidence of a successful…
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I’d argue that we’ve had a Moore’s Law for silicon for sixty years. It’s time we had one for intelligence. Vinge’s Law proposes a simple observation about the future of artificial intelligence: The effective capabilities of artificial intelligence double every six months after AI becomes capable of improving its successors. Unlike Moore’s Law, which measured…
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Software architecture is about to become an AI cost optimization problem. For decades, software architects have optimized for maintainability, scalability, deployment complexity, fault isolation, and human cognitive load. Good architecture has never been about clever code—it’s about reducing the amount of information required to safely make a change. AI-assisted development adds a new architectural constraint…
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I used to use a filter in gmail to forward important emails to my verizon sms email address <number>@vtext.com, but most carriers are removing sms via email. So now, to receive an escalated notifications for specific emails in the Gmail Android app, you can use filters to assign a label to those messages and then…