PRIVACY FOLKS: Stop fucking forgetting about accessibility. People with disabilities deserve privacy too - and in fact probably need it more than you do.

Signed,
So fucking tired of not being able to use privacy focused alternatives to apple and google, their native aps for various things from email to navigation, and suchlike.

Heh, you can add emoji into #GitLab labels.

»Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub:
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a serious security issue that allows leaked Laravel APP_KEY's to be weaponized to gain remote code execution capabilities on hundreds of applications.«

Never store your access keys in Git, especially not in the code – do programmers need to be taught this?!??

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/over-600-laravel-apps-exposed-to-remote.html

I know I'm late to the party on this, but when people say "headless CMS" do they kinda mean the database part of the "database publishing" of 20 years ago?

Like it is storing content separately from the HTML/CSS or app interface so one doesn't have to munge that stuff when making content, or munge content when making a site or app or something, right?

Or is there some new magic in "headless CMS" I'm missing?

"We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

https://bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post/3ltn3t3amms2x

I started writing about some code I worked on but it turned into an anti-AI rant and also covers punk rock.

https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/07/10/the-code-struggle/

PHP people,

I'm trying to convert some python that I wrote many years ago to #PHP. The code takes a word (string) and converts it into IPA(International Phonetic Alphabet) based on an alphabet character=>IPA dictionary (array).

In Python every string is an array, but in PHP it's not.

How do I iterate over a string not just seeking for individual characters but also for groups of characters? For instance the word 'light' I'd want to seek for 'igh', which would be converted to 'aɪ'

TIA

#Programming #Python #ConLang #Code

Edit: With loads of help from lots of people, especially @inguin, I now have this sorted (I think). Thanks to everyone.

Say hello to Cavil-Qwen3-4B; the #LLM making #opensource #license detection easy & accessible!
Trained on 150k samples
Works on consumer #GPUs
From #code headers to docs, Cavil's here to help! #openSUSE #AI https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/

My latest blog post: Metronalmost

https://mikecoats.com/metronalmost/

This metronome, by design, will never, ever, tick exactly once per second. This infuriating object is designed to thwart the goals of @hackaday's One Hertz Challenge contest.

i had a really bad #code #interview last week because i was beyond nervous. i am really bad at coding while people watch me.

i'm thinking about some exposure therapy. i might try to figure out how to livestream to #peertube or #twitch and just repeatedly do codewars or build something stupid. thinking about it makes my heart race in panic so i think it might help.

alternatively, i might reach out to some folks and see if they wanna do the same thing by way of #jitsi.

The Sequencer: Detect one-dimensional sequences in complex datasets

The Sequencer reveals the main sequence in a dataset if one exists. To do so, it reorders objects within a set to produce the most elongated manifold describing their similarities which are measured in a multi-scale manner and using a collection of metrics. To be generic, it combines information from four different metrics: the Euclidean Distance, the Kullback-Leibler Divergence, the Monge-Wasserstein or Earth Mover Distance, and the Energy Distance. It considers different scales of the data by dividing each object in the input data into separate parts (chunks), and estimating pair-wise similarities between the chunks. It then aggregates the information in each of the chunks into a single estimator for each metric+scale.

https://github.com/dalya/Sequencer

http://sequencer.org/

LLMs are great at making bugs, because bugs are code that looks plausible, without actually being correct.

Improve your bug productivity! Use an LLM!

I wrote a new article for Frontend Masters: Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps!

Consider this problem: you are given 2 hex codes + a number of steps. How would you code a step gradient? Think about it, then see my solution https://frontendmasters.com/blog/step-gradients-with-a-given-number-of-steps/

Hope you enjoy, a lot of work went into it.

How #US Firms are weakening the #EU #AI #Codeofpractice: By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, these companies put the entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest #AIAct #GAFAM # OpenAI #GPAI #AICodeofPractice #Code
https://www.techpolicy.press/how-us-firms-are-weakening-the-eu-ai-code-of-practice/

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Is a bug a bug if no one is using the software?

#php #code
Well, today I improve a little bit with the exploration with AST (the concrete extension php-ast).
Basically I refactor the analysis logic to be more modular and readable and clarified the base skeleton of this subproject. I use generators for better performance, and handle edge cases and added some support for loading PHP code to analyze from a file instead of hardcoded it. Just remember my first feature was to sniff the PHP code to remove unexpected dumps.

Stupid #a11y question: is it okay to have this structure?

I need a filter on the img, but not on the figcaption too, so I can't apply it on the figure.

Also can't apply it on the img because the img has a mask, which applies *after* filter, but I need it applied *before* https://bsky.app/profile/anatudor.bsky.social/post/3lmgrfcnbsc2k