A client of mine once ended a call with "oh, and can you just add a blog section? Should be quick." It was a fixed-price marketing site. The blog section was two weeks of work. I said "sure, no problem" because that is what you say when you like the client and want the next invoice paid on time.
I did the two weeks. I did not invoice for them. That was an expensive way to learn that sco...
When a public buyer in the EU re-tenders a service, the most useful question for a bidder is rarely "what do they want?". It's "who has the contract now, and what did they get paid?"
That tells you who you're up against, whether the incumbent is a giant or a three-person shop, and what price the buyer accepted last time. The answer is public: every above-threshold contr...
An Inngest outage on October 20, 2026 hit event ingestion, function scheduling, and execution twice in one day, and according to Inngest's own incident report, the second failure mode made the first one worse: the services that needed to restart couldn't come back online without the exact database connection the outage had already taken away.
Jump to what we checked in our own restart p...
I counted my VS Code extensions. There were 47. My editor took 8 seconds to start, lagged when I typed, and crashed once a week. I disabled 41 of them and kept 6. Here is what happened.
Extension creep is gradual. You install a formatter, then a linter, then a theme, then a snippet pack, then a language support extension for a framework you tried once and...
A malicious AGENTS.md file placed in a Downloads folder attempted to make an AI coding agent install a MALFEX-linked npm package.
Security tools intercepted the attempt, but tests show coding agents frequently execute unauthorized commands found in local workspaces.
According to the researchers, the issue exploits the way programming assistants work, which blindly read and fo...
