The Age of Skills Has Begun: Why Prompts Are Fading Fast in 2026
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Anthropic's Skills framework represents a paradigm shift from prompt engineering to reusable, composable skills, addressing fundamental scalability, reusability, and collaboration limitations of traditional prompts.

How to take screenshots and generate PDFs in Go
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A simple HTTP POST approach to external services eliminates operational complexity of headless browsers or sidecars for Go applications that need to capture screenshots or generate PDFs.

Difference Between Shallow Copy and Deep Copy in Java
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Shallow copy in Java shares references to nested objects causing mutations to affect both copies, while deep copy creates independent duplicates with higher memory overhead but greater data safety.

Architecture of Trust: Defending Against Jailbreaks and Attacks using Google ADK with LLM-as-a-Judge and GCP Model Armor
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As AI agents gain control over financial and database operations, security must shift from prompt engineering to code-first architectures using Google ADK and Model Armor to prevent jailbreaks and unauthorized actions.

AWS Lambda Durable Functions on Hexagonal Architecture: The Pattern You’ve Been Looking For
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Hexagonal architecture applied to AWS Lambda Durable Functions enables developers to write monolith-like code with microservices deployment patterns while preventing spaghetti code and improving maintainability.

3 Free AI-Powered Python APIs - Text Summarizer, Email Validator, Content Generator
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Author published three free AI-powered REST APIs built with Python and FastAPI on RapidAPI for text summarization, email validation, and content generation, each with generous free tiers requiring no credit card.

Graceful Exit Strategies: How to Fail at a Project Without Crashing Your Life
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Catastrophizing—connecting minor failures to imagined total collapse—mirrors flawed system design; resilient systems, like well-engineered software, prevent cascading failures and allow graceful degradation.

Suddenly, everyone cares about code quality.
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The renewed emphasis on code quality following AI tool adoption reveals pre-existing process failures; quality depends on discipline and culture, not overhead, and was already poor in traditional methodologies.

Stop Shipping Translations to the Client: Edge-Native i18n with Astro & Cloudflare (Part 1)
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Edge-native internationalization using Astro middleware and Cloudflare KV eliminates shipping translation JSON bundles to clients, reducing bundle size and cold start times while improving performance.

From System Monitoring to Business Insights: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Custom Metric Collection Feature of ARMS
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Alibaba Cloud ARMS custom metric collection bridges observability gaps by enabling monitoring of business metrics like order volume and conversion rates alongside traditional APM system metrics.

Solved: Anyone noticing shifts in Azure best practices around scaling, monitoring, or automation?
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Azure's evolution from resource-centric to workload-centric philosophy requires engineers to adopt Bicep and Azure Developer CLI instead of legacy ARM templates to address modern scaling and automation challenges.

Solved: Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF
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Broadcom's CNCF donation of KubeSlice warrants caution given VMware acquisition controversies; teams should assess project health and use abstraction layers to mitigate risks from corporate-backed open-source projects.

Building a REST API in Rust with Rocket (Part 2)
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This tutorial continues a series on building with Rust, specifically creating a REST API using the Rocket framework chosen for its developer ergonomics. It walks through setting up dependencies and core API logic for task management, providing practical guidance for developers learning Rust and web development.

Stop Feeling the Shame; Start Reading the Logs: A Guide to Objective Analysis
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This article explores how shame spirals prevent problem-solving by focusing on self-condemnation rather than analysis, using psychological concepts to distinguish guilt from shame. The author argues that viewing mistakes through a data-driven, objective lens enables learning and breaks negative cycles.

Mastering AI Agent Memory Architecture: A Deep Dive into the Complete OS for Power Users
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The article details a multi-layered memory architecture for AI agents combining short-term, long-term, and episodic memory to enable context persistence across sessions. It shares implementation details using JSON context windows and vector databases, addressing the challenge of maintaining consistency as AI systems become more sophisticated.

I Built 19 Browser-Based Security Tools Using Only Client-Side JavaScript, Here's What I Learned
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The author created 19 cryptographic security tools running entirely in the browser using the Web Crypto API, eliminating external servers or data uploads. The article demonstrates that modern browsers provide sufficient capabilities for password generation, AES encryption, hashing, and other security functions without external dependencies.

The “Almost Right” Trap: Why AI Code Costs You Hours (and How to Fix It)
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The article argues that AI-generated code wastes developer time not because it's wrong but because it's "almost right," requiring extensive validation loops. The author identifies missing context, scattered requirements, and absent standards as root causes of multiple iterations needed to ship production code.

How to Check If Your Website Has SPF and DMARC Records (And Why Email Security Matters)
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This guide explains how SPF and DMARC DNS records prevent email spoofing and phishing attacks, with implementation taking under five minutes. The article emphasizes that even domains not sending email should implement basic SPF records to block attackers impersonating the domain.

Building a Self-Healing XPath Mechanism in Selenium (Java) – Stop Fixing Broken Tests
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The article presents a self-healing mechanism for Selenium tests that automatically recovers from broken XPath locators by attempting fallbacks and scoring DOM matches. This approach reduces manual test maintenance while handling frequent changes in modern UI frameworks that generate dynamic IDs and attributes.

I Learned More Building One Testimonial System Than From Months of Tutorials
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The author reflects on building a testimonial system and discovering that full-stack development requires understanding data storage, validation, security, and production behavior beyond front-end aesthetics. Practical projects force developers to learn underlying layers and become genuinely full-stack through hands-on experience.