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When I started building Akhouri Systems, I didn't have funding. I didn't have a team. I didn't have investors. I didn't even have a code-signing certificate. What I did have was an old idea: Build software that solves real problems. Today, 511 people have downloaded software from Akhouri Systems. That number may not sound huge in a world where apps reach millions of downloads. But to me... 511 means 511 people trusted an unknown independent developer. Some of you pr...

A few weeks ago I gave an LLM-driven coding agent the ability to run shell commands on a scratch server, and within ten minutes of unconstrained experimentation it tried to curl a metadata endpoint, write outside its working directory, and read my shell history file. None of that was malicious — the model was just being helpful in the broadest possible sense of "helpful." But it made something click for me: we keep debating prompt injection as a text problem while handing agents filesystem an...

Python is known for its simple and readable syntax. But some Python one-liners make things even easier. Tasks that usually take several lines of code can sometimes be done in just one line. In this post, I’ll share 20 useful Python one-liners that show just how simple and powerful Python can be. Let’s jump right into it! 🚀 1. Swap Two Variables You can swap the values of two variables in just one line. There’s no need to create a temporary variable. a , b =...

My last two posts here were about scoring free coding models before committing to them — build a small harness, run it, compare. But after a few rounds of that, a different question started bothering me more than raw code quality: what does the agent do when it decides my instructions aren't enough? There's been good discussion on DEV this week about giving AI agents more tools and what happens when the boundaries fail. That conversation is usually abstract. This post makes it concrete: a...

[soak] drawer — 80 iterations base heap 2.83MB nodes 675 listeners 163 docs 1 @ 40 heap 3.50MB nodes 5675 listeners 163 docs 1 @ 80 heap 4.18MB nodes 10675 listeners 163 docs 1 delta heap +1.36MB nodes +10000 listeners +0 docs +0 per-iteration heap 17.35KB nodes 125.00 nodes ++++++++ +10000 total, biggest stretch 13% of it (spread out, so accumulating) That's a memory leak failing a CI build. Playwright doesn't do t...

I recently wrote about the halo effect associated with AI: the idea that a model that is good at one thing must be good at everything. I presented a simple example in which even the smartest available model could not write a basic letter in German. This time, I will discuss a different problem: the pleasing effect. AI tends to tell you what works, and that can be dangerous if the information it omits is important. Imagine you are job hunting and have your CV in front of you. What does e...

Chat is the norm now. When you build a marketplace, a healthcare app or a SaaS dashboard, people expect to message someone without leaving the app and when that feature is missing, they know it. The shift has now put product teams into an old dilemma and raised a question of which is better: “Building a chat app infrastructure from scratch or buying an existing chat API”. This post describes what it takes to build an in-house chat, the time and money it involves, what security work gets sk...

Originally published at ictcrm.com Short answer: the CRM software was not broken. In the biggest CRM breaches of 2026, attackers turned up holding a valid credential or an OAuth token nobody had revoked, then used ordinary product features to pull data out in bulk. No patch would have stopped any of it. Knowing what still holds a key to your system would have. Beacon CRM is the one in the news this week. The London company runs a cloud CRM used by more than 1,000 charities for donatio...

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A few weeks ago I was reviewing logs from a side project and found an email address sitting right there in plain text, in a log line I'd written months earlier and completely forgotten about. Nothing bad happened, but it bugged me enough that I went looking for a fix. What I found was a pile of tools that all had the same shape: "sure, we'll redact your logs, just tell us which fields to redact first." Pino has a built-in redact option. There's fast-redact . There's mask-json . All good t...

Meta was testing whether an AI model could perform dangerous cyber operations. Then the environment built to contain that test reportedly gave the model a path to the public internet, where it compromised another organization's system. That is a rough sentence to read twice. The easy reaction is to imagine a conscious AI breaking free. The more useful explanation is less cinematic and more uncomfortable: a capable system pursued the goal it was given, while a misconfigured evaluation envir...

Kiro Crew: A Cloud Solution Architect perspective on Kiro Crew, AWS's new open-source agent workspace, and what it could mean for software, cloud, and DevOps teams. AWS and the Kiro team released Kiro Crew on August 4, 2026. At first glance, it looks like another entry in the fast-growing AI coding agent space. After reading through the announcement and docs, I think it is slightly more interesting than that. From a Cloud Solution Architect point of view, Kiro Crew is not just ab...

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Remember JSON Formatter? The Chrome extension with 200K+ users that auto-formatted JSON in your browser? In mid-2026 it went closed-source, partnered with GiveFreely, and started injecting geolocation tracking plus donation popups into checkout pages. The developer's defense was "it's for charity." The community's response was a collective "uninstall immediately." I'm a developer. I look at JSON all day — API responses, config files, debug dumps. I needed a replacement. So I tested every majo...

I asked ChatGPT the most boring question you can ask a computer. "What is today's date?" That's it. No context, no project, no clever prompt. I just randomly asked it because I'd been working for hours—coding, debugging, fixing one thing after another. I needed a few minute break so I thought "Let's have a random chat." 😄 If you've ever worked late with an AI assistant you probably know the feeling. After hours of coding, debugging or researching your mind starts to feel stuck. And that...

Context There is one cheap way to ask python-semantic-release whether it will write your changelog. It answers would have written your changelog to CHANGELOG.md . It answers that for a setup that writes nothing. Mine wrote nothing for thirty releases. A few weeks ago I wrote Green CI ≠ working software . The argument there was that a green badge proves the job exited 0 and nothing more, so you should stop reading badges and start asserting effects. This post is what happened next....

TL;DR Golden Paths aren't about forcing every team to work the same way. They're about removing repetitive infrastructure decisions so developers can focus on building software while platform teams ensure consistency, security, and governance by default. When people hear Golden Path , they usually think of: Project templates Repository scaffolding CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure automation Those are all part of it. But they miss the real purpose. A Golden Path isn'...

Building Fillora PDF: Moving PDF Processing from Server APIs to Browser-Native Execution Every developer who has built document conversion features has probably encountered the same challenges: large file uploads, server memory pressure, processing queues, timeout limits, and users who hesitate to upload sensitive documents to third-party servers. When building Fillora PDF, we redesigned many of our core PDF manipulation tools to run directly inside the browser instead of relying on serve...

Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and is positioning the research and analysis product more closely within its Gemini ecosystem. The key functional upgrade is a secure cloud computer inside each notebook, which Google says enables code execution and deeper analysis. However, despite broad availability messaging, access is rolling out in stages rather than arriving simultaneously for every user, device, and subscription tier. In its July 16, 2026 announcement, Google's of...

Cross-post. Original: stellarbytecapital.com/blog/ai-agent-security-threat-model While a chatbot only produces text, an autonomous agent takes actions: it calls tools, runs code, moves data, and spends money. That shift changes the security problem entirely. "Is the prompt safe?" is no longer the question. The question is: what can this agent do, and what stops it when it goes wrong? Treating agent security as prompt filtering is how teams end up with an impressive demo and a product...

If you've ever tried to convert an SVG to a PNG entirely in the browser (no server round-trip, no ImageMagick, just JavaScript), you've probably hit a point where the output looked almost right and you couldn't figure out why it wasn't quite right. The mechanics are simple in outline and full of small traps in practice. This is a walkthrough of how the conversion actually works, and where it usually breaks. The basic pipeline There's no native "SVG to PNG" API. The browser gives ...

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