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S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News.One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade: 2006-03-14 $0.150/GB-month 2010-11-01 $0.140/GB-month 2012-02-01 $0.125/GB-month 2012-12-01 $0.095/GB-month 2014-02-01 $0.085/GB-month 2014-04-01 $0.030/GB-month 2016-12-01 $0.023/GB-month Today it's still $0.023/GB-month. Tags: amazon-web-services, s3

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Bluesky reply bot checker

Bluesky reply bot checker

Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well. Unlike Twitter, Bluesky still has a freely available and useful API. The lack of such a thing doesn't slow down the bots, but it does make investigating them a lot more frustrating. So I had Opus 5.5 vibe code this…

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Kākāpō Party

Kākāpō Party

Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026. For my closing slide I wanted to celebrate, and I had seen some buzz around how good Claude Opus 5.5 was at creating pixel art animations. So I rounded up three Kakapo photos from Google image search and dropped them into Claude with this prompt: Here are some photos of…

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Socket Joins New OpenJS Program to Fund Node.js Security Work

Socket Joins New OpenJS Program to Fund Node.js Security Work

Socket has joined the OpenJS Foundation’s new Security Stewardship Program as an inaugural partner, helping fund vulnerability research, triage, patching, and security releases across the JavaScript ecosystem. The program launches with an initial focus on Node.js, where the security workload is growing faster than the funding available to support it. “AI is driving a sharp rise in vulnerability reports, pushing many open source projects to shut down their bug bounty programs. The bottleneck is…

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Quoting John Gruber

Quoting John Gruber

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot. It’s the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it’s a genuinely open question whether consumers have any understanding what this means. If you buy a…

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Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates

Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates

The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a software factory, code good enough to ship still needs human taste and ownership. We’ll discuss this including whether you need a factory just yet. If […]

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The PHP Podcast 2026.09.24

The PHP Podcast 2026.09.24

🎙️ PHP Podcast – September 24, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Ian Littman joins the crew to talk PHP community and conferences. Longhorn PHP is three weeks out with a brand new format, the industry keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and RAM prices remain a personal insult. The hallway track survives […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.09.24 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Re-Enabled GitHub Actions Expose Thousands of Repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud

Re-Enabled GitHub Actions Expose Thousands of Repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud

Update, September 25, 2026: both actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment have been disabled on GitHub again, so workflows referencing them now fail at job setup instead of running the payload. Two actions-cool GitHub Actions, issues-helper and maintain-one-comment, were compromised and disabled during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. Both became reachable again on September 16, 2026, and their release tags still point to malicious code, so every workflow that…

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