Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security

We scanned 1,939 repositories. 95% of projects publishing an OpenAPI spec have no compatibility gate.

We went looking for projects that publish an OpenAPI specification and then let anything through CI unchecked. We expected a niche. We found the default.

• Researchers examined 1,939 repositories for OpenAPI spec compatibility.
• Only 4 out of 1,939 projects had breaking-change detection.
• 95% of projects with OpenAPI specs lack compatibility gates.

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An address validator should return a reason, not a boolean

A user pastes an address into a withdrawal form and gets back "invalid address". Sometimes the string was truncated by a copy that clipped at a line break.

• Address validator should return reason, not boolean
• Boolean-only validation fails to capture address distinctions
• Structured result with reason enables informed decisions

2h ago ·dev.to

I Automated reCAPTCHA in Playwright and the Proxy Was the Real Fix

I spent three days trying to get a headless Playwright bot past reCAPTCHA. I assumed the captcha was the hard part. It wasn't — the IP reputation was.

2h ago ·dev.to

Hello DEV Community! 👋 Building Web Apps & Sharing My Journey

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm super excited to officially join the DEV community! 🚀 I'm a Full-Stack Developer passionate about building modern, responsive, and scalable web applications.

2h ago ·dev.to

Pull the tenant from the auth context, not the request body

In multi-tenant apps, a common bug is reading tenant_id from the JSON body or query string and then authorizing against that value. Anyone can send tenant_id=other-customer .

2h ago ·dev.to