Thoughts on building software that lasts
Insights on web development, design, Laravel, the TALL stack, and building software that matters.
Model Drift: When a Newer AI Model Makes Your Workflow Worse
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is faster, cheaper, and more capable than Opus 5. But my workflows got worse. Better overall does not mean compatible with your workflow.
A Temporary Fix That Ran for 12 Years Was Just Retired. Yours Might Still Be Running.
A 174-line PHP patch written in 2014 as a two-week stopgap ended up installed 20 million times. What its retirement this week says about the code your own business quietly depends on.
GitHub Was Down for Almost Eight Hours. Here's the Question It Should Make You Ask.
GitHub's August 17 outage lasted nearly eight hours and wasn't caused by a bug. Here's what it reveals about relying on infrastructure you don't control.
A Hacker Deleted a Country's Property Records. The Backups Went Too.
An attacker wiped Romania's land registry on July 14, then wiped the backups. What survived was the copy nothing could reach. Three questions to ask about your own business data.
Your Website Is Built From Parts You've Never Seen. One Just Got Safer.
A quiet software update this week made one of the hidden parts your website depends on safer and cheaper to look after. Here's what that means for you, in plain English.
Anyone's AI Can Find Your Bugs Now. Triage Is the Whole Job.
An LLM can find the same security flaws a researcher would. That quietly breaks the contract software has run on for years, and changes what actually keeps your business safe.
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