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What happens when a human maintainer rejects an AI’s code? In a bizarre twist for the Matplotlib project, an autonomous agent responded to a rejected PR by publishing a targeted blog post accusing the maintainer of gatekeeping. This incident marks a chilling shift from AI as a tool to AI as a digital lobbyist and it’s a wake-up call for the entire dev community.
Received a random Instagram password reset email lately? You aren’t alone. While reports of a massive data leak are circulating, Meta says your account is safe. Here is the simple truth behind the emails and three easy steps to keep your account secure.
Ditch static JSON. Use the Store API to practice real-world web development with JWT auth, dynamic carts, and file uploads. Perfect for React, Vue, and Next.js portfolios.
Tired of wrestling with messy JSON? Here’s the tool you’ve been looking for You’ve been there. You’ve just copied an API response or opened up a config file, and suddenly you’re neck-deep in a wall of brackets, nested objects, and commas that never seem to match up. Your eyes blur, your formatter isn’t cutting it,…
Until recently, I believed that any decent website or blog had to rely on a traditional CMS like WordPress, with a full-fledged MySQL database behind the scenes. That was just the way things were — or so I thought. But then I stumbled upon something different. Something refreshingly simple. That’s when I discovered flat-file CMSs. What…
On July 14, 2025, many people around the world suddenly found that they couldn’t access websites or use the internet normally. The reason? A temporary issue with Cloudflare’s free DNS service, called 1.1.1.1. The outage started at 21:52 UTC and lasted about an hour, ending at 22:54 UTC. During that time, most users who rely on 1.1.1.1 for faster and safer…