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A Broken-Link Check Counts 404s. The Resource That Breaks Your Padlock Returns 200.

Originally published on the Merlonix blog. A broken-link checker does one well-defined thing: it walks the <a href> links on a page, fetches each target, and flags the ones that come back wrong — a 4xx, a 5xx, a timeout, a connection that never opens. That answers a real question: which links point at something that isn't there. Run a clean scan and you get a green report and a reasonable feeling that the page is healthy. But "every link resolves" and "this page works in a browser" are not the s

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AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.

I wanted to disagree with 'AI made me a worse reviewer' from Michael Amachree (@dev_michael) . Instead I counted 204 of my own guards — and 89 % of them have never been asked to prove they can fail. Michael wrote something that I couldn't put down: AI didn't make me a worse coder, it made me a worse reviewer. Here is the number, and it's worse than his thesis: of the 204 automated checks in my repositories that draw a conclusion, only 22 can prove they are able to fail. That's 11 %. The other 89

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Is My Domain Blacklisted? Why a Public DNSBL Check Can Show a False Positive

Originally published on the Merlonix blog. A DNS blocklist (DNSBL, sometimes RBL) is a published list of IP addresses a provider has flagged as a source of spam. Mail servers consult these lists in real time: if the IP that just connected is listed, the message is usually rejected outright or filed to spam. A single listing on a widely-consulted list — Spamhaus, SpamCop, Barracuda, UCEPROTECT — can quietly kill a large share of your mail, including the transactional kind you can least afford to

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Laravel Auditor Audits Your App With Your Own AI Agent

Laravel Auditor gives Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor a 75-rule audit methodology plus read-only MCP tools for security, performance, and schema checks. The post Laravel Auditor Audits Your App With Your Own AI Agent appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Reachy PizzAIolo: When a Restaurant Sign Starts a Conversation

Reachy PizzAIolo: When a Restaurant Sign Starts a Conversation Building an AI-powered conversational restaurant ordering experience with Reachy Mini and Seeed Studio's reTerminal E1003. What if a restaurant sign didn't just display the menu? What if it could talk to you, understand what you wanted, help you make a choice, update your order as you spoke - and show everything visually at the same time? That is the idea behind Reachy PizzAIolo. It combines the personality and conversational abil

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Greedy vs. Non-Greedy Regex: Why the Same Pattern Can Match Differently

A regex quantifier like * or + means "the preceding element can repeat any number of times," but how much it actually matches depends on whether the engine tries to match as much as possible or as little as possible. That's the greedy vs. non-greedy distinction, and adding a single ? to a quantifier can produce a completely different result. This post works through that distinction using real parsing code from this app's WP-CLI output handling. Note: a quantifier is the part of a regex pattern t

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Can AI Remember What It Sees?

So, I have been asking myself this question for quite a while, Can AI actually remember what it sees? and tell a user later that "I saw X at place Y last", or for instance when a person goes to a cafe and forgets something. e.g let's say they actually forgot their charger. The system should be able to say, "Hey, I think you came here with a charger and now you are leaving without one, or you forgot your charger". I think that will be really helpful, and it can also help a person when it observes

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