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Issue 121

Quality Tools: humble servants or tyrants? Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail. AGENTS.md. I Cut My Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to 2.5MB). Here Is the Full Breakdown. 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available. Why We’ve Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969. The True Magic of Refactoring Club. Introducing CSS Grid Lanes. How I Used AI to Audit 3 Years of SmartHome TechDebt (And Built a System to Prevent It From Happening Again). Shutting Out the Noise.

Issue 120

OpenTelemetry Tracing on the JVM. Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype. From Either to Raise. EU Cloud Cost. Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code’s Creator. Which programming languages are most token-efficient?. Demystifying OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Observability in Traditional Environments. First steps towards Codeberg. I Love You, Redis, But I’m Leaving You for SolidQueue. JVM Rainbow. Arrow’s Either: The Kotlin Chapter of our Scary Words Saga.

Issue 118

Parsing structured environment variables in Rust. Version Your Cache Keys to Survive Rolling Deployments. The ultimate guide to Docker build cache. Cheap Self-Hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud. The Poison Pill Request: How One Bad Request Can Kill Your Entire Fleet. OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History. Git as a fancy DAG. Rust’s most complicated features explained. Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling.

Issue 117

A refresher on GitHub Pages. Interviewer: What Happens If the Database’s Auto-Increment ID Runs Out? Publishing a Java-based database tool on Mac App Store (MAS). Spring Boot 4 OpenTelemetry: From Zero to Full Observability in Minutes. The SSO Wall of Shame. CSRF Protection without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields. OpenAI and Anthropic Donate AGENTS.md and Model Context Protocol to New Agentic AI Foundation. Java 'Magic' types: The ones you can’t name (non-denotable types).

Issue 115

The try block in Rust. How Java Virtual Threads Broke Netflix. Model Context Protocol Server for Home Assistant. On Idempotency Keys. MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base. Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust. That’s Unpossible – A full stack side project webapp (including a high-fidelity UI!) all in Kotlin. Remotely access your Synology from anywhere with Tailscale. Stop Breaking TLS. Fray Detects Concurrency Issues in JVM Languages.

Issue 114

Chopping the monolith. Managing Side Effects: A JavaScript Effect System in 30 Lines or Less. The Country That Broke Kotlin. Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike. Writing a good CLAUDE.md. You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? How revenue decisions shape technical debt. Rethinking Spring Application IntegrationTesting. Introducing Mistral 3. Duplication Isn’t Always an Anti-Pattern. Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector. Patterns for Deploying OTel Collector at Scale.