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Last Call 2026 Django Developer Survey
Time is running out. This is the last call for the 2026 Django Developers Survey, which the Django Software Foundation is running in partnership with JetBrains. The survey closes on July 13, 2026. It is one of the best measures we have of how Django is used, and it helps guide future technical and community decisions. So far, over 3,100 people have responded, and we would love to push that number past 4,000. Every response helps us better understand the Django community. This year's survey was s
AI Review for Laravel Upgrades
Introducing a built-in AI Review of your Shift. Providing a second pass on your upgrade, guided by Shift's detailed comments combined with AI's context. The post AI Review for Laravel Upgrades appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony
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Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws
Kalshi tried to ignore gambling laws on its prediction market, NY governor says.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
Building an Idempotent Job Queue in Node. js That Never Runs the Same Task Twice
Today, in modern backends, you probably have those distributed job queues for everything, including sending emails, processing payments, generating reports, and syncing data to third parties. As soon as you add retries to handle transient failures, however, you inherit a hard problem: how do you ensure that when the network, worker, or broker can fail at any point, your job runs exactly once? The short answer is: "exactly once delivery" is a great concept, but in practice it's mostly fiction giv
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