Almost every modern web application will need a REST API for a client to talk to, and in almost every scenario, that client is going to expect JSON. The best developer experience is a stack where you can stay in JSON-shaped data end to end, without awkward transformations in the middle. Take MongoDB...

Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Android Studio Testing multi-device interactions is now easier than ever with the Android Emulator. Whether you are building a multiplayer game, extending your mobile application across form factors, or launching virtual devices that require a device connec...

Want to take a Python Pandas series of strings, and get datetime values? Use pd.to_datetime: Notice: It’s not a method! It’s a top-level pd function. Specify a non-standard “format” with […] The post pd.to_datetime: Converting a pandas string column to datetimes appeared first on LernerPython.

Passage is a lightweight API gateway package for Laravel that proxies incoming requests to external services. The post Passage: A Lightweight API Proxy Gateway for Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Laritor is a production observability tool built specifically around how Laravel applications are structured. Not adapted. Built. The post Debugging production Laravel apps without losing your mind appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly...

Somebody gave you a knife and stood back smiling as you cut away parts of yourself. Those aren't the right...

There’s something good going on with music these days. Romance by Fontaines D.C. is a perfect album. I have listened to it almost every single day for weeks and have not gotten sick of it once, which is – and I mean this clinically – a medical miracle. Jack White is on SNL. The Strokes are touring. ...

AI in Focus is our ongoing livestream where we get hands on leveraging AI in real product development. In this episode, Chad flew solo and picked up a thread from our previous episode Claude Code skills for FDA-style documentation. We had touched on the idea of using Claude skills for code quality a...

As healthcare systems become more digital and interconnected, cybersecurity leaders must protect sensitive patient data while ensuring critical technology remains reliable and accessible. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Orus Dearman, Chief Information Security Officer at iRhythm T...

Learn how to build a smart email marketing strategy. Goals, audience, list, deliverability, content, automation, measurement. Do them in that order.

Learn to use Claude Code Plugins and some specialized AI subagents to help you with your Twilio app build.

Cloudflare's mission has always been to help build a better Internet. Sometimes that means building for the Internet as it exists. Sometimes it means building for the Internet as it's about to become. This week, we're kicking off Agents Week, dedicated to what comes next.

A few days ago I received an email from Eric Marceau, a longtime member of the ubuntu-mate.community forum, reaching out to ask whether LinuxCommunity.io would be willing to accommodate a group for MATE Desktop users.Continue reading...

TL;DR I believe this book will improve your life immensely. It’s one of those books where you have to get over your pride of "I don’t need this",…

If a Python string contains an ISO-formatted date, skip strptime and use datetime.fromisoformat: The post Parse ISO date strings in Python with datetime.fromisoformat appeared first on LernerPython.

For years, I've been chasing the illusion of the so-called "Smart Home". Thermostats and vacuums. Doorbells and cameras. Light bulbs and switches. Garage door openers and bird feeders. Stoves and grills. Sleep mats and of course, bathroom scales. Fucking bathroom scales. Oh, and the stove I've never...

Ce talk traite de la modernisation d’une application métier utilisée pour gérer les plannings de supervision d’un réseau électrique fonctionnant 24/7.

A lovely analogy about software craft. Same ingredients, same features, but the invisible process behind the decisions is what separates "this works" from "this feels right." Read more

In previous posts, I have written about my Proxmox Backup client helper scripts and an Ansible role to provision them. The main limitation of the prior version of the scripts is that they could only specify one backup target file or directory. Now they can target multiple. Backup scripts improvement...

Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code. It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if you’re in the Boston area this month.

Having a tough time remembering Python strptime vs. strftime? – The “p” (strptime) is for parsing, getting a datetime from a string– The “f” (strftime) is for formatting, getting a […] The post Python strptime vs. strftime: Parsing versus formatting dates appeared first on LernerPython.

AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a growing share of your audience invisible to your tooling.

In April 2025 I wrote Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation, a post about my various organizational compulsions. Near the end, almost as an aside, I mentioned that I obsessively categorize expenses in Monarch, a personal finance app, linking it with my referral code. That post earned me ...

Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has been more polarising than AI coding agents. What I keep noticin...

Learn how to use rsync over SSH for secure, encrypted file transfers and incremental backups on Linux. Covers key flags, SSH options, backup scripts with hard-link snapshots, cron scheduling, and common troubleshooting.Continue reading...

The problem: env(’REMOTE_ADDR’) Do not use env('REMOTE_ADDR') or low level env() wrapper directly. Those are always the direct TCP connection source, not necessarily the real IP. Make sure to always use ServerRequest::clientIp() when interacting with the user’s IP address. When you move a...

Benchmark data showing how TimescaleDB expands PostgreSQL ingest capacity, query speed, and storage efficiency for IIoT workloads at scale.

Cloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.

Every index on a Postgres table multiplies your write I/O. Past 500M rows, that tax becomes a crisis. Learn to find zombie indexes and fix write amplification.

Inference scaling has brought LLMs to where they can reason through most practical situations...