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Let's poke at the differences between scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations. A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds.
I ran an AI coding agent against a broken Kubernetes deployment for five minutes. The agent called Anthropic's API dozens of times — reasoning about manifests, running kubectl commands, redeploying workloads. It made fully authenticated requests throughout the entire session. The API key was never in its environment.
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations manager. If you've been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you'll know that Trump Mobile doesn't exactly keep open lines of communication with the media. That doesn't look to be changing, with the company no longer working with its long-term media relations firm. Poplar Group has represented Tru
As threats proliferate and AI complicates cybersecurity, CISOs say the job is getting harder, but more companies still want cybersecurity expertise, if even on a part-time basis.
Modern phishing attacks, including Device Code phishing, can undermine MFA protections and grant attackers access to corporate accounts without stealing passwords. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help security teams detect compromised accounts faster and automate response workflows. [...]
In this blog post, we will see how the humble Java switch statement evolved from a fall-through curiosity into a powerful expression, and how understanding its mechanics unlocks classic techniques like Duff's Device. Java's switch statement has evolved from a fall-through-prone construct into a modern expression syntax introduced in Java 14. The post traces this evolution using a concrete example, a method that computes triangular numbers by intentionally allowing execution to cascade through ca
When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season. "I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things," he tells me. Now as Sugar heads into its next season, which starts streaming on Apple TV on June 19th, Farrell says he
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