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After Google and Yahoo tightened sender requirements in 2024, half of the cold email tools that worked in 2023 are now dead in the water. Here's how Woodpecker,

Daniel Stenberg confirmed Mythos surfaced a real bug in curl, one of the most-reviewed codebases on the planet. Here's what that means for AI-assisted security

Adam Dunkels wired Claude into a user-space TCP/IP stack and benchmarked it against ICMP ping. The latency floor it reveals is the most honest stress test we ha

A 2026 audit of free-tier developer services: which hosting, database, CI/CD, and observability platforms still let you ship a side project for $0, where the hi

The case for running models on your laptop instead of paying per-token API bills: where local AI (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp) wins on cost, latency, and priva

A measured look at the backlash against AI coding assistants — what the METR study and cognitive offloading research show about when hand-coding actually produc

OpenAI's Codex Chrome extension puts its coding agent inside your browser tab. We tested the workflow patterns that pay off, the limits worth knowing, and how i

A measured developer review of Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus API — pricing vs GPT and Claude, 1M-token context behavior, coding benchmarks, and the access paths that

A malicious Obsidian community plugin delivered the Phantom Pulse RAT to developer vaults. Here is the attack chain and how to audit plugins in Obsidian, VS Cod

A measured comparison of OpenCode and Claude Code, the lock-in math behind the split, and a decision framework for picking one, the other, or both.

A hands-on review of ModelScope, Alibaba DAMO Academy's open-source model hub. Covers SDK setup, model discovery, ms-swift fine-tuning, and how it compares to H

Cursor's new SDK exposes the same agent runtime that powers the editor. We break down what ships, where the documentation lags, and when the limitations matter

A hands-on review of paperless-ngx, the open-source self-hosted DMS. We cover the Docker stack, OCR pipeline, REST API, AI workflow integration, and where Whoos

Why evaluating Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code by lines generated misses the point — and how to measure whether your AI tooling is adding or removing technical

Otter, Fireflies, and Granola are facing class actions over consent and data retention. Here's what developers integrating AI transcription need to audit before

A hands-on review of Gitleaks for catching hardcoded secrets in Git history. Covers the CLI, pre-commit hooks, CI integration, and how it stacks up against GitG

play.pickuma.com now has eleven games. After the first two, the bottleneck was no longer game logic — it was the chrome around each game. Here's the design syst

yt-dlp replaced youtube-dl as the default for programmatic video and audio extraction. Installation, format selectors, the Python API, and the production gotcha

A measured look at Ratty, a terminal emulator pitching inline 3D graphics. Where the category fits, which workflows benefit, and what to verify before you switc

A measured guide to running 7B-32B local language models on a base M4 Mac with 24GB unified memory. Model size math, real tokens/sec numbers, and when Ollama, l

Stop at 7.77 and Eagle Run are live at play.pickuma.com. A 250-line vanilla canvas game and a one-button time-sense test, both shipped in a day. The stack, the