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I think VMs with snapshots would negate the need for Vagrant.

With increasingly aggressive usage limits (Claude weekly usage now), "agentic" style of token burning seems much less practical to me. Coming from Aider and trying tools like OpenC…

Agreed. Alternatives seem too "agentic" for me, where Aider strikes the right balance of AI pair programming.

One one hand, I can see the captcha is easy to fall for. On the other, nothing says "prove you aren't a machine" like "run this code that a machine could easily run."

If you have any sort of Experian bureau activity, you're at risk by this issue whether you manage your profile with this site or not

Experian allows unfreezing via their site in the article. If someone can easily recreate your account, they can unfreeze it which makes it pretty useless.

defaultdict doesn't seem to easily solve for the main topic of deeply nested values.

+1 for Fiddler, though it doesn't sound like the author was in a position to forward traffic to an HTTP proxy at the time in prod

I was scratching my head on how he was capturing requests without mentioning a proxy cert, but then I saw the security note at the bottom. You'll see that the data for these produc…

I find CORS is generally a good interview question for frontend or full stack engineers.

The battery level isn't actually close to dying, in my case it just rapidly depletes from up to 40% when it's very cold. But that 40% remains intact seemingly with the screen off. …

I shared this elsewhere but I could have expressed the initial problem a little clearer, which actually was "enter my home without unlocking my phone which causes my phone to die i…

Back from 2015, bypassing an APK signature check: https://randywestergren.com/reverse-engineering-the-yik-yak-...

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The author may have added this in after publishing: > Many people have asked, could viruses also use the Ψ technique to beat our immune systems? In short, this is extremely unlikel…