Vite patched the server.fs.deny query bypass on April 6. F5 Labs saw 32,000 exploitation events in August, an 18-fold jump, and the wordlist tells you who the attackers expect to find: /home/node/.aws/credentials, /usr/src/app, /proc/self/environ. Nobody is hunting laptops. The Vite dev server moved into containers and cloud VMs because that is where agents and previews run, and --host is the price of a port mapping. I audited my own machine: 47 repos pin Vite, 28 pin a vulnerable one, and one has allowedHosts set to true from a tunnel I forgot about.
Read more →X is flooded with Fable 5 one-shotting landing pages, and design leaderboards briefly crowned it king. So I handed it this blog. The interesting part wasn't what it generated: it was that it read the site's own design doc and found the site guilty of violating it. What the viral demos get right, what they hide, and why the model's most useful design skill is enforcement, not inspiration.
Read more →WebFetch dies at the first Cloudflare challenge. I built a research agent that escalates through an unlocker ladder, cites its sources, and refuses to burn money on auth walls.
Read more →75M monthly downloads. 80% revenue drop. 75% of engineers gone. AI didn't replace developers - it replaced the web as the interface layer. That's worse.
Read more →Claude Code can now control your actual Chrome browser. Not a headless session, not a fresh login - your Chrome, with your cookies and sessions. Build, test, and debug without context switching.
Read more →51% of web traffic is now bots - the first time machines exceeded humans. $238B wasted on fake impressions in 2024. Out-of-home is the fraud-proof alternative.
Read more →The human-facing web is dying. Zero-click searches, bot traffic exceeding humans, publishers losing 40%+ traffic. What comes next: an agentic web where sites are API endpoints, not destinations.
Read more →It's swooping season in Australia. So naturally, I built a retro pixel-art game about the annual aerial warfare between cyclists and territorial magpies.
Read more →Converting a Ghost blog to Astro in a single late-night session with Claude Code, reducing memory usage by 75% while learning what AI coding tools actually solve
Read more →Building cross-platform image resizing middleware for ASP.NET Core using SkiaSharp before mature libraries existed.
Read more →Part 2: Adding inter-service communication to .NET Core microservices using HttpClient and custom logging services.
Read more →Building a two-handle circular slider in RaphaëlJS inspired by Apple's iOS Bedtime feature using SVG and vector math.
Read more →Building lightweight microservices with .NET Core and Nancy framework before ASP.NET Core MVC reached maturity.
Read more →Enabling frontend developers to work on ASP.NET Core views without writing C# by building custom middleware for Razor-only routing.
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