A game developer explains how he built a low-level modding language, including sandbox constraints, an AArch64 JIT, and a small C++ compiler... read more  

GitHub leaders created the reliability problems through weak capacity planning. As AI-agent users drove heavier traffic, GitHub engineers found migration risk and engineering debt that teams had allowed to build up... read more  

Stripe's Developer Productivity team rolled out rubyfmt, a Rust-based zero-config Ruby autoformatter, across 25 million lines of Ruby in one Saturday morning in 2024, after the project had been in flight since 2018 as Fable Tales's personal OSS work. The hard parts were Ruby itself (no Ruby parser e.. read more  

Andrew Quinn shipped Taskusanakirja (tsk), a Finnish-English pocket dictionary with search-as-you-type, originally backed by a trie for ~400k base words plus a 3 GB SQLite FTS database to cover the 40-60M inflected forms that Finnish's agglutinative morphology demands. Reaching for BurntSushi'sIndex.. read more  

The Dutch Ministry of the Interior launched code.overheid.nl, a self-hosted Forgejo instance for government source code. This move was driven by the need to own and control the platform where code is published. Forgejo was chosen over GitLab for its open-source nature and alignment with the ministry.. read more  

Mirantis has agreed to an acquisition by IREN. The companies have announced no customer-facing product changes... read more  

kubectl debugsessions leave almost no forensic trace: by design,EphemeralContainerStatushas nolastStateorrestartCount, so the exit code, session duration, target container, and debugger logs disappear from the Kubernetes API the moment anything else updates the pod. That breaks incident handoffs (th.. read more  

Every gateway ships with a set of built-in policies. Authentication. Rate limiting. Request routing. Prompt guards. These cover most use cases. But what about the ones they don’t cover? What if you need to add a custom header based on a database lookup? What if you need to transform a request body i.. read more  

The KubeStellar Console team learned that AI coding agents improve after engineers build deterministic feedback loops into the codebase. Engineers who grant more autonomy give agents more room to guess, with no new correction signal... read more  

Kubernetes v1.36 deprecatesService.spec.externalIPsand starts the removal path, finally closing CVE-2020-8554, the trust-everyone hole the field has carried since the early days. The project has recommended disabling it via theDenyServiceExternalIPsadmission controller since v1.21, but SIG Network h.. read more