React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation | Loren Stewart

Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.

How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man

This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.

Apple is ruining the open web · Victor Wynne

Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Dawn of A Truly Private Internet

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Guest Post: How I Scanned all of GitHub’s “Oops Commits” for Leaked Secrets ◆ Truffle Security Co.

GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents.

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security