Moving beyond disaster recovery, organizations can ensure business-critical mainframe environments. Over decades, the mainframe has earned a reputation for being synonymous with reliability. Many enterprise organizations continue to rely on the mainframe precisely because of the redundancy, automatic recovery, and availability that leads to “nine nines” reliability or 31.56 milliseconds of unplanned annual downtime per server.However, this reliability can lead to blind spots in planning and resourcing for recovery, with IT leaders perhaps counting on their mainframe being shielded from downtime. Platform availability is not the same thing as recoverability, and organizations need to quickly and confidently recover mainframe data…
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Adding images to a website is a pretty straightforward task. You grab your link, and you summon the image element like below: <img src=”your_link” alt=”image content”>Code language: HTML, XML (xml) Then, you add your favorite CSS, and you have a nice-looking image! What if I tell you that the most common element is hiding some secrets? You have been working with images for too long, but you have probably never noticed the little quirks I will show you here. Think I am exaggerating? Follow along, and you will see! An Image Can Overflow If you inspect the CSS code of…
I had fun with the post about making a link to a random post in just HTML/CSS the other day. But I was almost certainly over-thinking it on the original. Using random() was kind of the point, so we can stick with that. One alternative is to think uni-directionally. Making it both rows and columns isn’t necessary out the gate. You can get vertical slices with flexbox easily, which is just as random really, and likely gives you a few hundred random posts as they can get down to 1px in width. An even simpler idea is to have all…
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people who prefer a GUI over writing code to handle deployments, but the implementation has enough structural gaps that they fall apart for several real deployment workflows. Even when they do work, the UI isn’t always intuitive.Every piece of active software carries a backlog of feature requests and known limitations, and deployment pipelines get new capabilities on a regular basis. Everything below reflects how deployment pipelines behave as of August 2026. Some of it may have changed by the time you’re reading this, so check Microsoft’s docs…
Hey! This post is a response to Abhishek Jakhar’s post about delayed tooltips, or, perhaps better put, a second part showing an alternative approach to the same problem. I really like Abhishek’s focus on the UX of the tooltips in his app. Both are true: a tooltip that comes up too fast is annoying for just-passing-by mouse cursors, and if you add a delay, they come up too slowly for someone intentionally mousing between them. That’s just good UX thinking, and I like to see it. But also, the solutions are quite deep into JavaScript land. The core of the…
Aug 18, 2026 17,600 Actions: Agent Security Is a Systems Problem The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident exposed a new challenge for AI agent security. 17,600 attacker actions show why AI agent security can’t rely on human review. Explore the controls needed to constrain, observe, and govern agents at speed. Read now
Angular 22.1 landed on July 29th, 2026, and it’s a minor release. But it comes with an announcement that changes how all of us plan our upgrades: Angular is switching to one major release per year.New release scheduleSince Angular 4, we’ve had a major release every six months. That’s over, and here’s what it means concretely:One major version every year, in Junev23 lands in June 2027 — not November 2026v24 in June 2028, and so onMajor versions are now supported for two years instead of 18 monthsMinor releases keep coming about every two months, so 4 to 6 per yearI’ve been teaching Angular upgrades for years now, and this…
It is becoming increasingly common to add various keyboard shortcuts to websites and applications for ease of use. Some of the very common shortcuts are ⌘ + K for quick chat or search, ⌘ + Enter for submit/Send, ⌘ + B for toggling the side navigation, ⌘ + B/I/U for bold, italic, and underline in any rich text editor, and there are tons of them, from changing the theme to opening help support. The engineers developing applications mostly use MacBooks, and to convey a shortcut, many simply end up hardcoding the ⌘ symbol or the text “CMD” for the modifier…
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to be data driven. Across my 18 years, I’ve had plenty of people use evidence from customers, from usage data, from market research, and more to justify a decision.I think Google and quite a few other companies have called this being “data-driven.”The text on the next page continues the sentence:not on people’s opinions, the volume of their voices or who they are. When the evidence changes, we are prepared to change our minds. We will thank, and never shoot, the messenger.I will say that this has skewed…
Linux command line has a lot of fun around itself and many tedious task can be performed very easily yet with perfection. Playing with words and characters, their frequency in a text file, etc is what we are going to see in this article. Almost every word-frequency one-liner floating around the web has the same bug in it. It reports blank lines as the single most common “word” in your file, and poorly designed pipelines can split accented characters into meaningless bytes before counting them. The top of the list still looks plausible, which is exactly why nobody catches it.…