Three ways to find the IP address of a website (browser, terminal, API), why you often get several IPs or a CDN address, and how to geolocate the result to see where a site is really hosted.

IntroductionIn June 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family, tracked as SloppyRAT, that is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. ThreatLabz observed SloppyRAT being ...

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering ...

Over the past year, tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot have transformed software engineering and also data analysis.

PEEP is described as a post-compromise framework as it lacks an initial access vector itself, meaning it requires the ...

How does the Model Context Protocol actually work, and why should founders care? MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to ...

Your prompt matters more with MicroPython than most other codes.

External data should be treated as hostile until it has been checked, constrained, and transformed for the specific place it will be used. That applies whether the data comes from a browser form, a ...

Google's crawler now strictly enforces standard JSON formatting when reading your site's structured data, schema markup, instead of auto-correcting double-escaped HTML text. "To bring our parser up to ...

Log Analyzer processes application log files to extract critical operational insights, including log level distributions, HTTP endpoint request frequencies, and ...

For enterprise developers, Harness may ultimately be the more consequential part of Thursday’s announcement. Models can increasingly be swapped behind standardized interfaces.

This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what the literati are really thinking. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every two weeks. A little less than a year ago, I talked to ...