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'Devin-kun': Japan embraces agents as legacy code and a shrinking workforce create a perfect market for an AI software engineer
20+ min ago (565+ words) Japan'famously slow to adopt digital technologies common across the developed world'has become a surprisingly fast adopter of AI, as it confronts both a shrinking population and aging digital infrastructure built on legacy code." Cognition AI is making Japan the first…...
Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says
9+ hour, 26+ min ago (239+ words) BEIJING, July 3 (Reuters) " Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work after "the tool drew scrutiny for code "that can help identify China-linked users, according to a person familiar with the order. Claude Code…...
The checklist I use before sending a small OSS PR
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (201+ words) Small open-source PRs look easy from the outside because the diff is usually small. The diff is not the work. The work is getting to the point where a maintainer can review it without having to guess what you changed,…...
Making LLM security verdicts verifiable: the evidence gate pattern
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (271+ words) Every "AI security analyst" I tried had the same flaw: a correct verdict and a confident-but-wrong one are indistinguishable on screen. In security that's not a UX nit " it's the whole problem. So I built USAP around a single rule,…...
FIFA World Cup 2026 Stadium Security Scan
42+ min ago (359+ words) With the World Cup in full swing, we got curious: how well configured are the official stadium websites for the 16 host venues across the US, Canada and Mexico? So we ran a FIFA World Cup 2026 stadium security scan on all…...
Current OSS proof, without the launch gloss
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (138+ words) The useful part is not the count by itself. The useful part is the mix of constraints: different test setups, different maintainer preferences, different rule engines, different definitions of "small enough to merge." The pattern I want to keep repeating…...
What merged PRs teach that local projects do not
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (270+ words) Local projects are useful, but they are too forgiving. If I own the repo, I can choose the architecture, the naming, the test strategy, and the tradeoffs. That is good for building. It is not always good for proving I…...
Mid-Year Backend Reset: My H2 Goals for Speed, Security, and Better Docs
28+ min ago (637+ words) July always feels like a natural pause point. The first half of the year is already behind us. Some. .. Tagged with backenddevelopment, laravel, engineeringgoals, buildinpublic....
The Pragmatic Migration: Moving from Angular JS to Angular v22
38+ min ago (1170+ words) But there is a way to thread the needle of ever-changing business requirements and legacy technical debt. The path to the highly performant, modern Angular v22 (released June 2026) does not require a risky "Big Bang" rewrite. Using a strategic, incremental, hybrid…...
Top GIS Software Development Companies for Utilities and Energy Providers
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (588+ words) Published on Jul 3, 2026 Utilities and energy providers have a GIS problem that most industries don't. Most GIS vendors can build good maps. Fewer understand the operational workflows inside utilities and energy companies well enough to build systems that actually change…...