📰 Dev.to · Alan West

A practical walkthrough for auditing what your IDE extensions actually send to the cloud, using lsof, mitmproxy, and filesystem monitoring.

An honest comparison of Docker and Podman after migrating three projects, plus what you probably shouldn't containerize yourself.

Practical defenses against npm supply chain attacks: disable install scripts, use npm ci, audit lockfiles, verify provenance, and contain the blast radius.

Centralized Git hosts can go down or suspend accounts overnight. Here's a step-by-step guide to peer-to-peer Git collaboration that survives the platform.

When auth providers add phone or QR verification to signup, automated account creation breaks. Here's how to redesign your pipelines to never depend on it.

Docker publishes ports by editing iptables directly, which skips UFW entirely. Here's why it happens and three ways to actually lock things down.

Your Docker containers take 10 seconds to stop? It's almost always the PID 1 signal-handling problem. Here's the root cause and the fix.

How to use automated scanning tools like ClawSweeper to clean up stale GitHub issues and PRs that pile up in every active repository.

Binary config files break across versions and block code review. Here's how to audit, convert, and enforce plain text formats for resilient projects.

Fix the most common reasons self-hosted production apps crash overnight — memory limits, disk issues, health checks, and the operational basics most guides skip