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A visual tour of Mefi Studio, shaped with its community

Mefi Studio is a free, open-source Windows workspace for following tasks, sessions and coding agents. I am sharing four views of the real interface and would like your feedback on what makes the work easier to follow. These images use sample Notes app data. See the work Tasks and sessions are easier to discuss when the work is in view. Here is the Command view in Studio. Start with an idea Bring…

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Safe Multi-Environment Database Orchestration

Bootstrapped projects and agile engineering teams frequently leverage diverse cloud tiers to optimize hosting costs. A typical stack might use local Docker containers for development, free-tier cloud…

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I built a tiny CLI to make open-source contributions less intimidating

The frustrating part of contributing is not always the code You find an issue that looks useful. Then the questions start: Where in the codebase should I look?

  • PR Spark is a CLI tool for open-source contributors
  • Generates contribution brief from issue title and description
  • Aims to simplify first-time contributions to open-source projects

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dev.to ships its comment CSRF token as value="NOTHING". Here's what that breaks.

There's a small thing that will cost you an afternoon if you ever try to script a comment on dev.to. I'm writing it down because I lost that afternoon.

  • dev.to ships CSRF token as "NOTHING", breaking comment scripting
  • Token crucial for preventing CSRF attacks, unavailable to scripts
  • Non-JavaScript clients receive 422 error due to invalid token

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Windows Update Stack and ALPC: Two Exploited Local Privilege Escalation Flaws in the September 2026 Patch Tuesday

Windows Update Stack and ALPC: Two Exploited Local Privilege Escalation Flaws in the September 2026 Patch Tuesday Microsoft's September 2026 security update was the largest on record by vulnerability…

  • Two high-priority flaws CVE-2026-81963 and CVE-2026-85880 exploited before patches
  • Both vulnerabilities allow local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on all Windows versions
  • CISA added both to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with September 22 deadline

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