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DevOps

Crontab syntax basics, and how it differs from WP-Cron

"What does */5 * * * * actually mean?" — anyone setting up a scheduled task on a server has probably stared at that row of asterisks at some point. If you run WordPress, you may already be familiar with inspecting WP-Cron's internals through WP-CLI, but the actual crontab syntax used by the OS itsel

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AI & ML

Lenexus wants to map everything that could take your business down

Some ideas feel obvious in hindsight, but nobody had really executed them well until now. Lenexus, a platform built by MJ Corp, is one of those: map every system, supplier, person and AI a company depends on into a single living graph, so you can finally answer the question most organizations strugg

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Open Source

Kept Getting Strange GitHub Followers. So I Measured Them

Over the past several weeks, I kept seeing something unusual in my GitHub followers. Not one suspicious account. Not even one suspicious batch. Repeated waves of accounts would appear with remarkably similar characteristics: dozens of newly generated repositories thousands of outbound follows r

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Frontend

Are We Becoming AI Managers Instead of Developers?

I've been doing front-end development for somewhere around 20 years now. During that time, I've watched the job change over and over again. New frameworks. New languages. New tooling. New ways of building and deploying software. But I don't think I've ever had to adapt as quickly as I have over the

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Cloud

7 AWS Resources That Could Be Quietly Increasing Your Cloud Bill

AWS makes it incredibly easy to provision infrastructure. Sometimes, a little too easy. An EC2 instance gets created for a project. A volume survives after the instance is terminated. A snapshot is kept "just in case." A development environment runs all night even though nobody is using it. Indiv

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AI & ML

I'm 12. My Code Jam got zero submissions. So I built a platform for it.

Last week I ran the first KODA Code Jam — a tournament where developers build niche single-page apps, submit them to the Showcase Wall, and compete for Champion status. The result: zero submissions. I could've blamed users. "They didn't care." "The timing was wrong." "My audience isn't into hackat

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