6+ min ago  (504+ words) I've been doing native mobile development for a while and one thing that always bugged me was the tradeoff between cross-platform tools and actual native UI. Flutter and React Native solve the "write once" problem but you're not really getting…...

13+ min ago  (559+ words) Back in 2014, during the development of the Jestr ecosystem, the engineering team tackled this problem head-on. The project was split cleanly into a native iOS frontend (jestr-app) and its backend engine (jestr-api). After consulting with an engineer at Facebook, the…...

16+ min ago  (459+ words) This is Part 2 of the series. You can read part 1 here! When I first started in the industry, security reviews were mostly still manual. Security was the department of "no" and could hold up a quarterly release until they were…...

17+ min ago  (114+ words) I've launched IndieDesk. It's a self-hosted Laravel workspace designed for indie developers and... Tagged with laravel, productivity, showdev, sideprojects. It's a self-hosted Laravel workspace designed for indie developers and freelancers who want to manage projects, costs and revenue in one…...

19+ min ago  (496+ words) Backslash Security published a number this week: 12,981 MCP servers in their database. This looks like a loss. It isn't. The numbers measure different things, and understanding why matters for how you think about MCP security risk. Backslash's hub catalogs GitHub…...

25+ min ago  (718+ words) Backslash Security published a report this week: 7,000+ MCP servers scanned, hundreds vulnerable, searchable hub available. Solid work. Static analysis of code repositories and server configurations. Here's what static scanning can't tell you. Static scanning tells you: this server has no…...

25+ min ago  (122+ words) SurrealDB is not merely a document store or a graph database. It is a multi-model database engine with: In practice, this means SurrealDB can operate as: In other words: a backend-as-a-service without the typical SaaS constraints. Can you replace your…...

28+ min ago  (1363+ words) The catch phrase of the last year, it seems. I'm sure we've all been there. We ask the AI to do something. It confidently does it. We realize it made a mistake, so we correct it. What does it do?...

41+ min ago  (476+ words) When I started automating blog posts to BearBlog, I thought it would be as simple as writing Markdown and sending it over. I was wrong. BearBlog's free plan has some quirks that can trip up even careful automation. After publishing…...

42+ min ago  (643+ words) Have you ever heard someone say, "We tried Agile, but it didn't work for us"? I've heard that sentence more times than I can count. And almost every time, the real issue wasn't Agile itself. It was a misunderstanding of…...