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Anatomy of a GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Targeting MCP Repos

Dev.to · Wes 3d ago

Anatomy of a GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Targeting MCP Repos

On April 7th, someone submitted a pull request to my project Charlotte. 28 lines. One new file. A...

Your Artifact Registry Doesn't Need 2 GB of RAM

Dev.to · Wes 5d ago

Your Artifact Registry Doesn't Need 2 GB of RAM

Every team eventually needs an artifact registry. You need somewhere to push Docker images, host...

I Renamed All 43 Tools in My MCP Server. Here's Why I Did It Now.

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

I Renamed All 43 Tools in My MCP Server. Here's Why I Did It Now.

Charlotte 0.6.0 ships a breaking change, batch form fills, and lazy browser launch. Plus the story of 7 strangers improving code I wrote alone in February.

Your System Is Not a State Machine

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

Your System Is Not a State Machine

State machines can't describe agentic AI systems. The state space is too vast, the behavior isn't stochastic, and the flowchart is a lie. What replaces it?

Your Encrypted Backups Are Slow Because Encryption Isn't the Bottleneck

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

Your Encrypted Backups Are Slow Because Encryption Isn't the Bottleneck

If you encrypt files before pushing them to backup storage, you've probably assumed the encryption...

Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists

You find a new CLI tool on GitHub. The README looks good. You scroll to "Installation" and see the...

The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem

Every AI coding agent you run has the same permissions you do. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider....

Why Your SFTP Transfer Is Stuck at 2 MB/s (and the Fix Is a Protocol from 1983)

Dev.to · Wes 1w ago

Why Your SFTP Transfer Is Stuck at 2 MB/s (and the Fix Is a Protocol from 1983)

Two minutes to copy a 274 MB file to a VM running on localhost. Not over the internet. Not to a cloud...

Finding Blocking Code in Async Rust Without Changing a Single Line

Dev.to · Wes 3w ago

Finding Blocking Code in Async Rust Without Changing a Single Line

You know the symptoms. Latency spikes under load. Throughput that should be higher. A Tokio runtime...

Nobody Reviews Their Agent's Code

Dev.to · Wes 3w ago

Nobody Reviews Their Agent's Code

You tell your AI agent to implement a feature. It writes 150 lines across four files. You skim the...

Your LLM Doesn't Need 200 Lines of Test Output

Dev.to · Wes 1mo ago

Your LLM Doesn't Need 200 Lines of Test Output

You paste a command's output into your LLM context, and half of it is noise. go test -v on a...

Your Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And This 148-Star Crate Knows Why)

Dev.to · Wes 1mo ago

Your Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And This 148-Star Crate Knows Why)

Microbenchmarks lie. Not maliciously, just structurally. You write a tight loop, measure it a...

Your RSS Feeds Are Broken and This Rust Tool Fixes Them

Dev.to · Wes 1mo ago

Your RSS Feeds Are Broken and This Rust Tool Fixes Them

RSS is still the best way to follow the internet without an algorithm deciding what you see. But it...

I Read 9,000 Lines of a Stranger's Mergetool

Dev.to · Wes 1mo ago

I Read 9,000 Lines of a Stranger's Mergetool

Every developer has a merge conflict horror story. Mine usually starts with vimdiff opening four...