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How are you feeling about tech lately?

For Dev.to’s 2025 New Year’s Writing Challenge, I wrote a reflection on the major management change within my company. Fast forward to now and I’m still grappling with the same issues. I’m seriously thinking this isn’t the field for me. Not because it’s challenging but because I don’t seem to be improving. Admittedly I don’t have very good indicators of success. It’s probably the fact that there isn’t anything I want to achieve in this field. It feels like since graduating college, I’ve slowly

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Google Says AEO and GEO Are SEO, Not Separate Silos for AI Search Strategy

Google has made its position on answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization clearer: AEO and GEO are not separate disciplines from SEO when the goal is visibility in Google Search's generative AI experiences. Its guidance directs site owners back to the fundamentals that make pages useful, crawlable and understandable, rather than toward isolated tactics designed solely for AI Overviews or AI Mode. That distinction matters because Google is integrating AI experiences into Searc

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Gateway Token Validation: JWKS Retrieval and Cache Rotation in Node.js 20

Short answer: validate gateway tokens with public JWKS keys, keep a bounded refresh path for rotation, and fail closed for signup traffic when key retrieval cannot be trusted. Treat CAPTCHA verification as a separate, auditable state transition rather than a reason to weaken token checks. In an e-commerce gateway, a bot can hit the registration endpoint long before a human sees the CAPTCHA widget. The gateway therefore has two jobs: prove who signed the token, then decide whether that request is

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I refuse to open sloppy AI PRs. These eight blockers are the whole review.

Lint is green. The bot left forty comments about naming. Somebody typed LGTM. Then billing double-charged, or the migration locked the table, or the "internal" route was sitting on the public router. If you have been reviewing AI-authored diffs for more than a month, you already know this shape. The model is fluent. The linter is happy. The PR description is a file list. The thing that will page you is not in the comments. I stopped opening those PRs. Not because I am anti-agent — I use Cursor a

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B2A: Business-to-Agent é o futuro inexorável das empresas digitais

O Paradoxo da Autonomia: Um Dossie Estratégico sobre a Economia Business-to-Agent (B2A) A transição para a economia digital de 2026 e 2027 é marcada por uma mudança fundamental no destinatário final das interações comerciais. O paradigma tradicional, centrado no Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e Business-to-Business (B2B), está sendo rapidamente expandido, e em alguns setores substituído, por uma nova camada de intermediação: o Business-to-Agent (B2A). Este modelo define a prática de desenhar servi

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Why I Built a B2B SaaS to Stop HR From Chasing Expired Certifications

Every growing business eventually runs into the same unglamorous operational nightmare: tracking certificates, professional licenses, and mandatory work compliance documents. If you look inside most companies today, the process looks like this: An admin or HR manager maintains a chaotic, multi-tab spreadsheet. Every week, they scan dates manually to see what's about to expire. They send 10-20 pinging emails: "Hey Alex, your safety cert expired last week. Can you email me the updated PDF?" Alex

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How to Tell If Your Windows PC Has Been Hacked (11 Warning Signs)

You close your laptop. You walk away. When you come back, the mouse is in a different position. A program you didn't open is running. Your passwords stop working. You might think: "Has my PC been hacked?" It's a terrifying thought. But the truth is, hackers don't always leave obvious traces. Sometimes the signs are quiet — a slightly slower system, a network connection you don't recognize, a webcam light that flickers for no reason. The good news? Hackers leave footprints. You just need to know

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Shopify Finds AI-Referred Shoppers Convert Better Than Organic Search in Spec-Led Categories

Shopify's latest commerce analysis indicates that AI-referred shoppers can be more valuable per visit than organic-search visitors, particularly for products that require substantial research before purchase. In Q2 2026, Shopify found that shoppers referred by AI converted at roughly twice the rate of organic-search visitors in spec-led categories. The result follows similarly strong Q1 findings on conversion rates and order values. The important point is not that AI is replacing search overnigh

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