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Anyone can be an inspiring senior engineer when tickets are clear and deployments are smooth

Anyone can be an inspiring senior engineer when tickets are clear and deployments are smooth. Who you become when the database corrupts at 5 PM on Friday, the client escalates, and your code breaks is your real seniority level. Panic is contagious, but so is calm competence. The highest compliment a leader can receive isn't 'they're a genius.' It's 'things calm down the moment they join the…

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The Most Precise Plugin in My Benchmark Scored 10.8%

Six ESLint security plugins, one labelled corpus of 69 vulnerable fixtures, same harness, same day — eslint-plugin-security@4.0.1 , @microsoft/eslint-plugin-sdl@1.1.0 , ESLint 10.8.1, Node 24.

  • eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized scored 10.8% in benchmark
  • Detected 4 vulnerabilities out of 69 fixtures
  • High precision makes it useful despite lower recall

·dev.to

Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny

  • Migrated blog infrastructure from AWS to Bunny DNS for cost and performance optimization
  • Bunny offers scriptable DNS, returning IP addresses of nearest two servers globally
  • Author uses NixOS virtual machines in seven locations for nearest server selection

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Kubernetes DRA Extended Resources: GPUs Without Device Plugins

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud A platform team has 200 training manifests that all say nvidia.com/gpu: 1 . They also want per-model GPU selection, MIG slices and shared devices, which the…

  • Kubernetes v1.37 introduces DRA extended resources for GPU support without device plugins.
  • DRA extended resources replace opaque integers with structured data for scheduler device allocation.

·dev.to

Three color checkpoints for HEIC to JPEG, and why sips -g profile isn't one

Why do some HEIC-to-JPEG conversions come out washed out? The measurements I ran on 2026-11-06 pointed to three checks rather than to a library.

  • Three color checkpoints cause washed-out HEIC-to-JPEG conversions
  • ICC profile must be read, carried, or converted by pixels
  • Mixing formats leads to color discrepancies

·dev.to

Your Agent's Command Printed Nothing for 2 Minutes. stdout Wasn't a Terminal

Book: AI That Acts The series: AI in TypeScript — 5 books, from your first LLM call to agents in production — all five here My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude…

  • Claude Code's Bash tool streams command output to a file
  • Two-minute timeout moves command to background
  • Block-buffered commands may have empty output file

·dev.to

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