📰 Dev.to · Alan West

macOS Privacy & Security settings don't always reflect reality. Learn how to audit TCC databases directly and debug permission issues the right way.

Fix the broken feedback loop between engineering and management with ADRs, risk profiles, and shared vocabulary systems.

How to audit your cloud region dependencies and build multi-region resilience before data center capacity constraints break your infrastructure.

A practical guide to migrating small business clients from WhatsApp voice messages to real order management systems, with code examples and tool comparisons.

Learn how CPU offloading, activation checkpointing, and smart memory management enable training 100B+ parameter LLMs on a single GPU.

Stop reading code blind. These git commands give you a mental map of any codebase in five minutes — who works on what, where the bugs are, and which files matte

Comparing AI-driven architecture vs. human-led design decisions, with a practical analytics tool comparison featuring Umami, Plausible, and Fathom.

Learn how to enable post-quantum hybrid key exchange in your TLS stack today. Practical steps for OpenSSL, Go, and nginx with code examples.

Learn how to set up a local LLM-powered penetration testing assistant that keeps client data off cloud APIs, with practical setup steps and code examples.

Learn how to evaluate AI model safety before production deployment using system cards, safety probes, and continuous monitoring.

A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing the anxiety spiral that AI hype creates for developers, with concrete steps to rebuild confidence.

Your app relies on hundreds of open-source packages nobody has reviewed. Here's how to audit, scan, and lock down your dependency chain before it bites you.

How to detect and block aggressive AI crawlers like Meta's bot, plus comparing Umami, Plausible, and Fathom for privacy-focused traffic monitoring.

A practical guide to debugging WML errors in Battle for Wesnoth add-ons, from enabling log output to fixing silent failures in custom scenarios.

Learn how to run LLM inference on extremely memory-constrained hardware using tiny models, aggressive quantization, and minimal runtimes.

Your AI-powered app shouldn't break when one provider goes down. Here's how to architect provider-agnostic LLM integrations with fallback logic in Python.

Cisco unveiled a Zero Trust architecture designed specifically for autonomous AI agents at RSA Conference 2026, addressing the security gap left by traditional

A Reddit GIF of a bird flying through a forest went viral. Here's how to build a browser game like it using Canvas API and vanilla JavaScript.

Two independent research teams disclosed GDDRHammer and GeForge attacks that exploit Rowhammer-style bit flips in GDDR6 GPU memory to break page table isolation

A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom as Google Analytics replacements, with migration steps and honest tradeoffs.

A step-by-step guide to migrating your LLM pipeline to a new model like Gemma 4 without breaking output parsing, prompts, or production stability.

Build a Python script to automatically detect recurring subscription charges from bank statement CSVs and audit your monthly spending.

Building custom SQLite tooling is harder than it looks. Here's why SQL parsing is painful, what your options are, and how AI assistants change the effort calcul

Comparing traditional map controls with gesture-based hand tracking navigation — when each approach makes sense and how to implement both.