Author: drweb

As AI-driven development accelerates, open source software faces an uncomfortable paradox: Usage is rising while engagement, sustainability and community economics quietly erode. AI isn’t eliminating OSS, but it is reshaping how code is written, discovered and maintained. The result may not be the death of open source, but the end of its long reign as the default foundation of modern software.

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I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I decided recently to see if I could find a way to more easily automate things. I’ve tried a few apps on the iPad, but they all have too many restrictions and they are hard to use in the heat of the moment. Paper and pencil have been simple, reliable, and they let me fix something easily.However.Paper takes some focus, and it’s hard to quickly summarize things. I wanted to make my own app, and Claude convinced me not to do this.Read on.This is part of a…

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In this article, you will learn how to use the Linux column command to format text into tables, handle CSV files, and generate clean, structured output, with 15+ practical examples for data formatting. Working with CSV files or unstructured data often requires converting messy output into readable tabular format. The column command is a simple but powerful utility that transforms raw data into properly formatted columns and tables, making data verification and analysis significantly easier. The column command is part of the util-linux package and formats input into columns based on your source file structure. Whether you’re cleaning data exports,…

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Performance tuning is one of the most critical skills a database professional can develop. A single poorly optimized query can bring an entire application to its knees, while a well-tuned database can handle exponentially more load with the same hardware. This comprehensive guide walks you through practical techniques for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in SQL Server, complete with scripts you can run in your own environment. Let us learn today in this quick guide Execution Plans and Indexing Strategies.Understanding the Performance Tuning LandscapeBefore diving into specific techniques, it’s important to understand what we’re actually measuring when we talk about…

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Veracode has extended the reach of a Package Firewall that applies policies that limit what types of code can be downloaded from a repository to Azure Artifacts from Microsoft. Additionally, DevSecOps teams can now define custom policies based on package risk profiles, vulnerability thresholds, or a specific security requirement their organization has adopted. Tim Jarrett, […]

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Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, unpacks what’s changing in platform engineering as AI reshapes who gets to build, and how infrastructure actually gets managed. Baron traces the origin story back to his time building high-scale systems at Instana (which exited to IBM in 2020), where the reality of “always-on” platforms made […]

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