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The Security Fix That Would Have Silently Broken My Feature

I recently shipped Mermaid diagram support to Forem, the open source platform that powers DEV. Fenced mermaid code blocks now render as actual diagrams instead of plain highlighted source. Which means this renders, right here, on this post: flowchart TD A[CodeQL flags innerHTML] --> B[Add DOMPurify] B --> C{Measure the output} C -->|assumed| D[Ship it] C -->|actually| E[Labels are gone] E --> F[Find the real bug] The feature itself is not the interesting part. The interesting

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ChatGPT Ads Arrive in Europe, Starting With the Free Tier

Open ChatGPT in Europe on Monday and, if you’re on the free plan, you may notice something new sitting near the answers: an advertisement. As of 24 August, OpenAI is switching on ChatGPT Ads across 31 European markets — the company’s biggest advertising expansion yet — six months after it began quietly testing the idea in the United States. Free and Go users are in; anyone paying for Plus, Pro or Enterprise is not. Answer first, because the shape of this matters more than the noise. This is the

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Sin of Angels (SOA Game): The Digital Board Game that Plays like Sons of Anarchy

Sin of Angels, the SOA game from CRIME Digital, is a browser based outlaw motorcycle club strategy board game, built for players hunting for games like the out-of-print Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem board game. Same DNA: rival clubs, area control over a gritty map, running guns, cutting deals and betraying them, and settling it in a fight. Sin of Angels is its own original game, with cinematic 3D brawls and a party mode you can throw on the TV. Two to six players, no install, on desktop, tablet

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Generic methods ใน Go 1.27: ฟีเจอร์ที่เคยถูกบอกว่า "ไม่มีทาง" แต่ community ผลักดันจนสำเร็จ

📅 เขียนเมื่อ: กันยายน 2026 | Go 1.27 ปลายเดือนสิงหาคมที่ผ่านมา บัญชีทางการของ GoLand โพสต์คลิปวิดีโอสั้น ๆ ความยาว 36 วินาที ของ Robert Griesemer (หนึ่งในผู้ร่วมสร้างภาษา Go) เล่าเบื้องหลังของฟีเจอร์หนึ่ง พร้อมคำถามชวนคิดว่า: "ทำไมทีม Go ถึงข้าม generic methods ตอน 1.18 แล้วกลับมาใส่ใน 1.27?" คำตอบสั้น ๆ คือมันเป็นเรื่องราวยาว 5 ปี ที่เริ่มจากทีมออกแบบบอกว่า "ทำไม่ได้/ไม่น่าจะทำ" ไปจนถึงวันที่ community ผลักดันจนฟีเจอร์นี้กลายเป็นจริง — บทความนี้จะเล่าเรื่องนั้นให้ฟัง พร้อมอธิบายว่า generic met

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Building a Client-Side MTG Proxy Generator with React and TypeScript

Hello fellow Wizards🧙‍♂️, I built MTG Proxy, an open-source browser application that converts Magic: The Gathering deck lists into printable playtest cards. Live application: https://lksvn.com.br/mtg-proxy/ https://github.com/lksvn/mtg-proxy The workflow is intentionally simple: Paste or import a deck list Load the corresponding cards Review the previews and select different printings if needed Configure the print layout Export a PDF A list can contain only card names: Lightning Bolt Counterspe

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