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WAF - WAF Release - 2026-06-15

This week's release introduces new managed protection to address a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost CMS (CVE-2026-26980) and a new generic rule designed to identify and block sophisticated SQL Injection (SQLi) bypass attempts leveraging obfuscated boolean logic. These rules protect affected installations from unauthorized data exfiltration at the network edge. Key Findings CVE-2026-26980: A blind SQL injection vulnerability in the Ghost CMS Content API (versions 3.24.0 to 6.19.0) al

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A blog is a long-running argument with yourself about what you actually believe. This is mine. It will be about FinOps and Pulumi (my day job), AI tooling and Up next: a story about a third-grade peanut butter sandwich assignment, and More soon. 73.

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UVS: a draw's fairness as a fact you can recompute — not a certificate you trust

I've built casino slot machines and gaming systems for 15 years. I mostly stayed away from compliance, but once I had to write the official algorithm description for a certification lab. I made it technically precise, handed it over — and realized nobody read or verified it. The lab ticked the boxes, took the money, issued a paper certificate. Two hours later a hotfix could ship to production and void the certified hash, and nobody would notice. The industry runs on dead paper, not real-time ver

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Pinpoint rollback — building per-plugin revert with WP-CLI

You batch-update 20 plugins, and one breaks the site. Most WordPress maintenance tools play it safe and roll back all 20 updates (variations on "Safe Updates" or "Atomic Updates"). It's a reasonable default. But running in production, you start running into cases where you want only the broken one reverted, and the other 19 to keep their updates. Here's how that design is built on top of WP-CLI. wp plugin install --version=X --force WP-CLI has a powerful command for "install a plugin at a spec

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I tried "GEO" on my indie tool — it was just SEO (here's the GSC data)

Every other newsletter this year told me my SaaS needed GEO — Generative Engine Optimization. Write an llms.txt. Add "AI-only" schema. Chunk your content for the models. So before sinking a weekend into it, I read one contrarian source, opened Google Search Console for my tool, and looked at the actual numbers. The verdict was boring and freeing: for Google, optimizing for AI answers is still just SEO. The real problem wasn't my markup — it was that almost nothing about my site was discoverable

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I built a free cybersecurity scanner that gives any website a security score — here's how

I spent the last few weeks building SecureCheck AI — a free web-based cybersecurity intelligence platform for developers. Here is what it does: Paste any website URL and get a security score from 0 to 100 It checks real HTTP headers — CSP, X-Frame-Options, HTTPS redirects and more It tells you exactly what is missing and how to fix it It detects the tech stack of any website without touching their code It has a full domain intelligence module — WHOIS, DNS, SSL certificate check The AI assistant

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How Solana's Account Model Differs from Ethereum — and Why It Matters for DeFi Developers

If you've built on Ethereum and you're now exploring Solana, the first thing that will trip you up isn't the language (Rust takes getting used to, but it's learnable). It's the mental model. Solana separates code from state at a fundamental level — and once you internalize that, everything else clicks. This article walks through the core differences in how both chains store data, why Solana's design enables parallel execution, and what it means for you as a DeFi developer writing programs (the S

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From Idea to App Store Screenshots That Convert — Without a Designer

You finished the app. You wrote the description. Then you hit the part nobody warns you about: the store listing wants screenshots, and not raw phone screenshots either. It wants the polished kind with headlines and framed devices that every successful app seems to have. I'm a developer. The first time I shipped, I uploaded plain screenshots straight off the simulator and called it done. Installs were bad. Not because the app was bad, because the listing gave people no reason to tap "Get." Here'

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