Python developers keep getting handed the same task: take a cabinet of handwritten intake sheets, delivery slips and claim forms and turn them into database rows, without hiring six people to type. It comes up wherever paper still walks through the door, which in 2026 covers most clinics, most freight depots and a fair number of county records offices. Handwriting is arguably the last barrier between those places and a workflow nobody has to babysit. Everything else in the building has an API by now. The first attempt usually fails anyway, and it tends to fail for reasons that have…
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Docker Captain Sep 2, 2026 Building Reproducible AI Evaluation Workflows with Docker Sandboxes Learn how Docker Sandboxes can make AI evaluation workflows more reproducible with consistent execution, structured artifacts, and runtime evidence. Read now
This follows Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not. You can read this one on its own.I said tech conferences are worth every hour and the sessions are not. Nobody argued about the sessions. They wrote about money instead, and five questions arrived.Five people asked about booths, volunteers, profit, renewal, and churn. Every question was really asking the same thing: did anybody notice I came?No event, organizer, or vendor is named here. Everything is a composite. The questions were rewritten, and private messages stay private.The replies came from the other side of the table. Organizers wrote. Vendors wrote. One user-group…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim argues that AI-driven software development will shift security attention away from source code and toward executable binaries. The growing volume of AI-generated code could overwhelm traditional DevSecOps workflows built around reviewing and scanning source code. Ben Haim expects AI agents to play a much larger role in building, updating and securing software, making automated binary validation increasingly important. JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim told approximately 500 software engineers today that in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) no one will soon care much about source code anymore.Speaking at the company’s swampUP…
Supporting Cast seeks a passionate, creative developer with PHP and agentic engineering experience to expand on Supporting Cast’s podcast subscription platform. As a key member of our team, you’ll be helping independent creators, podcast publishers, and media companies improve their financial sustainability and better satisfy their fans. You’ll be joining a small development team and will be in a position to influence our tech stack and our evolving product. Working here provides the dynamic excitement of a startup, and the stability and competitive compensation of an established employer. We will consider candidates from anywhere in the United States, provided you…
Sep 2, 2026 Below the Harness: Governing a Multi-Model, Multi-Harness World We believe the future is a multi-model, multi-harness world. And we think it needs a new trust model. In 1988, Norm Hardy described a problem that had been quietly breaking systems for years: the confused deputy. A program that takes action using its permissions instead of yours. Today, every AI agent is that deputy. It… Read now
The foundational language of the web is getting plenty of love lately! While HTML moves a bit more slowly than its buddies, CSS and JavaScript, that tends to be a good thing. I’m not gonna do, like, in here. That’s too basic for you. That shipped in like 2009. You already know it’s a perfect semantic wrapper element “which is intended to be independently distributable or reusable (e.g., in syndication). Examples include: a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a product card, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of…
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to work with the MCP server capabilities. As I was trying to get this working, I realized that the MCP capabilities were newer than my DAB version. I had v1.4Wow, that’s old. The Overview page for the SQL Server MCP site says v1.7 is needed and 2.0+ has bug fixes. I need an update.I had this in my slide deck, but the dotnet tool is used to update the DAB. The command isdotnet tool update –global Microsoft.DataApiBuilderThis showed a download and then in a few minutes it…
Most admins learn usermod -aG in their first week and never read much beyond it. But drop the -a once on a production box, and a developer can lose sudo, Docker, and every other supplementary group they had with a single keystroke. There’s no confirmation prompt and no built-in undo. The usermod command modifies an existing user account. It’s the counterpart to useradd, which creates accounts. Rather than creating a new entry, usermod changes attributes associated with an account that already exists. Everything below was tested on Ubuntu 26.04 with shadow-utils. Where behavior differs on RHEL-based systems, I’ve called it…
Bnei Brak, Israel, August 31st, 2026, CyberNewswireNew capability identifies, attributes and validates API keys, OAuth tokens and other machine credentials stolen from developer and employee endpointsLunar Cyber today announced Token Exposure Monitoring, a new capability designed to identify, attribute and validate Non-Human Identities (NHI) and machine credentials inside infostealer logs, connect them to the affected organization, and determine which exposures require action.The rapid adoption of AI development tools, cloud platforms and automated infrastructure has put a new class of credentials on developer machines: API keys, OAuth tokens, personal access tokens, and other machine identities that provide direct access to valuable…