Goran Štimac Modern CSS: Container Queries, View Transitions, and :has()
Container queries, the View Transitions API, and :has() crossed into Baseline between 2023 and 2026. What is safe to adopt now, and the one caveat that remains.
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DNS Security: DNSSEC, CAA Records, and DDoS Protection
DNSSEC authenticates DNS data, CAA records constrain certificate issuance, and layered DDoS protection keeps DNS and applications available — plus the 11 October 2026 root KSK rollover deadline every resolver operator should check.
Platform Engineering in Practice: Building Internal Developer Platforms
A practical guide to internal developer platforms: the problem an IDP solves, platform-as-a-product principles, golden paths, self-service, tooling without lock-in, security guardrails, DX metrics, an adoption roadmap, and common pitfalls.
Git Workflows That Work: Beyond main-vs-develop
The classic main-vs-develop Gitflow model is now legacy. GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, and trunk-based development are simpler alternatives, backed by DORA data and branch automation.
WebAssembly on the Server: Where It's Actually Useful in 2026
WASI 0.3 and WebAssembly 3.0 made server-side Wasm practical. Where it is genuinely useful in 2026, which platforms run it, and where the hype ends.
Zero Trust Networking for Small and Medium Teams: A Practical 2026 Update
Zero trust is now practical for small teams. NIST and NSA published phased 2025–2026 guidance; the on-ramp is MFA, identity-based access, and WireGuard as transport.
Linux Security Hardening: Beyond the Basics
Beyond updates and strong passwords: least privilege, service minimization, firewalling, auditing, and AppArmor — the practical hardening layers that protect a Linux server.
Production Incident-Response Playbooks: What Every Team Should Cover
CISA, NIST, Google SRE, AWS, Microsoft, and PagerDuty all converge on the same lightweight incident-response playbook structure. Here is what every production team needs to include — and where to start.
Astro Beyond Static Sites: Server Islands and Hybrid Rendering
Astro's server islands let content sites add dynamic components to otherwise static pages without abandoning CDN caching. What they are, when they make sense, and what an adapter changes.
CI/CD Pipelines: From GitHub Actions to Self-Hosted Runners
GitHub Actions in 2026 sees hosted runner prices cut 39%, parallel steps GA, the new Runner Scale Set Client for custom autoscaling, and stronger security controls — making the hosted versus self-hosted runner decision more nuanced than ever.
Singapore Tightens Critical Infrastructure Security with Updated CCoP 2026 and New Cloud Code
Singapore CSA updates the Cybersecurity Code of Practice for CII operators with three proactive defense pillars, executive accountability mandates, Cyber Trust Mark Level 5, and a new CCoP for Cloud Services — with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Companion Guides.
systemd Deep Dive in 2026: What's Changed
Four systemd releases in nine months brought cgroup v1 removal, SysV init script deprecation, persistent journal defaults, nftables-only NAT, and higher minimum dependencies. What Linux server admins need to know.
AI-Generated Infrastructure Code: The 2026 Governance Gap
DevOps teams using AI to write Terraform and Kubernetes config face a hard truth: only 55% of AI-generated code is secure. Here's what platform teams must do about it.
Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code: Open-Source AI Coding Agent Joins the Enterprise Stack
Anaconda acquires Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent used by 3M+ developers. The acquisition creates an end-to-end enterprise AI pipeline from first prompt to production.
NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Arrives in Gigascale AI Factories: 102.4 Tbps Ethernet for 100K-GPU Clusters
NVIDIA's Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch delivers 102.4 Tbps — doubling the previous generation — designed for 100K+ GPU clusters. Part of the Vera Rubin platform, it transforms networking from bottleneck to enabler for gigascale AI.
Cloudflare Precursor: One-Click Behavioral Defense When 57% of Web Traffic Is Bots
Cloudflare launches Precursor — a one-click continuous behavioral validation engine that replaces CAPTCHAs with real-time session-wide analysis. 57% of web traffic is now automated.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Family Goes Live: Sol, Terra, and Luna Redefine Multi-Agent AI for Everyone
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 as a three-tier model family — Sol, Terra, Luna — with 1M token context, native multi-agent orchestration, and breakthrough cost efficiency. The era of one-model-fits-all is over.
Meta Enters the Paid AI API Market: Muse Spark 1.1 Brings Multimodal 1M-Context Agentic Models
Meta launches its first paid model API with Muse Spark 1.1 — a multimodal reasoning model with 1M token context, multi-agent orchestration, and computer-use capabilities. Meta finally competes for developer mindshare.
EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI: What Website Owners and Developers Need to Know
The European Commission's July 2026 Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI bridges the AI Act with existing frameworks including NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act.
Microsoft's $2.5B Frontier Company and AWS's $1B Bet: AI Adoption Is Now a People Problem
Microsoft commits $2.5B to Frontier Co. with 6,000 embedded AI engineers; AWS follows with $1B. Enterprise AI adoption shifts from model selection to organisational integration.
Drupal 11.4.0: Biggest Performance Improvement of the Decade — 3x Faster, 1/3 the Lookups
Drupal 11.4.0 ships July 1, 2026, with 3x faster page generation using 1/3 the database and cache lookups. Drupal AI 1.4.0 ships alongside.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Brings Opus-Class Agentic AI at Half the Price
Claude Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus agentic capabilities — autonomous browser and terminal tool use, planning, and self-checking — at introductory pricing of $2/$10 per MTok. The most affordable Sonnet yet.
OpenAI Jalapeño: The Custom Inference Chip That Puts OpenAI in the Silicon Business
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator co-designed with Broadcom — achieving a nine-month tape-out, 'substantially better' performance-per-watt, and a multi-generation roadmap toward gigawatt-scale data centers.
Local Coding Agents Go Mainstream: Open-Weight Models That Run on Your Laptop in 2026
Open-weight 30-35B MoE models now deliver viable local alternatives to proprietary coding agents. Cohere North Mini Code and Qwen3-Coder lead the charge on consumer hardware.
GitHub Copilot Moves to Usage-Based Billing: What AI Credits Mean for Your Team
GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based AI Credits billing from June 2026. What changes, what stays free, and how to budget for agentic coding sessions.
The Rise of Pure Data-Theft Extortion: Why Encryption Is No Longer the Point
June 2026 marked a shift from ransomware to pure data-theft extortion. Breaches at One Medical, NAIC, and Novo Nordisk show that encryption is no longer the weapon — data exfiltration is.
SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 and the $60B Cursor Acquisition Reshape AI Coding
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) launches Grok 4.5 — its strongest coding model yet — alongside the closed $60B Cursor acquisition. With 80 tok/s speeds and 4.2x fewer output tokens than Opus 4.8, this is SpaceXAI's first real enterprise play.
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero (Vite) and Pledges $1M Ecosystem Fund — What It Means for Frontend Builds
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, and pledges $1 million to an independent ecosystem fund. With 84 million weekly npm downloads and 98% developer satisfaction, Vite has won the build tool war.
Platform Engineering Is Replacing the DevOps Generalist in 2026
The 'DevOps engineer' role is being replaced by dedicated platform engineering teams building Internal Developer Platforms. Here is what changed, why it matters, and what tools define the new landscape.
ES2026 Ships Temporal After 9 Years — JavaScript Finally Gets Proper Date and Time Handling
The Temporal API officially ships in ES2026 — a complete replacement for JavaScript's broken Date object after nine years of development. What Temporal is, why it took so long, and how to start using it today.
Apple Expands Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud — A New Standard for Confidential Computing
Apple extends Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud with NVIDIA GPUs, using three-layer hardware trust and a verifiable transparency ledger. A new benchmark for confidential computing at hyperscale.
What Cloudflare Registrar API Beta Means for Builders
Cloudflare Registrar API beta lets builders search, check, and register domains from the same workflow they already use.
What the Latest LangChain Releases Mean for Production Agents
Recent LangChain releases make agent projects easier to control with better structured output, built-in tools, retries, and model capability metadata.