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Quoting David Abram

Quoting David Abram

I have been doing this for years, and the hardest parts of the job were never about typing out code. I have always struggled most with understanding systems, debugging things that made no sense, designing architectures that wouldn't collapse under heavy load, and making decisions that would save months of pain later. None of these problems can be solved LLMs. They can suggest code, help with boilerplate, sometimes can act as a sounding board. But they don't understand the system, they don't…

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Beats now have notes

Beats now have notes

Last month I added a feature I call beats to this blog, pulling in some of my other content from external sources and including it on the homepage, search and various archive pages on the site. On any given day these frequently outnumber my regular posts. They were looking a little bit thin and were lacking any form of explanation beyond a link, so I've added the ability to annotate them with a "note" which now shows up as part of their display. Here's what that looks like for the content I…

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Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills

Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills

Starlette 1.0 is out! This is a really big deal. I think Starlette may be the Python framework with the most usage compared to its relatively low brand recognition because Starlette is the foundation of FastAPI, which has attracted a huge amount of buzz that seems to have overshadowed Starlette itself. Kim Christie started working on Starlette in 2018 and it quickly became my favorite out of the new breed of Python ASGI frameworks. The only reason I didn't use it as the basis for my own…

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Trivy Supply Chain Attack Expands to Compromised Docker Images

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Expands to Compromised Docker Images

Socket's threat research team has identified additional compromised Trivy artifacts published to Docker Hub, following the recently disclosed GitHub Actions compromise affecting the aquasecurity/trivy-action repository. New image tags 0.69.5 and 0.69.6 were pushed on March 22 without corresponding GitHub releases or tags. Both images contain indicators of compromise associated with the same TeamPCP infostealer observed in earlier stages of this campaign. The latest tag currently points to…

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CanisterWorm: npm Publisher Compromise Deploys Backdoor Across 29+ Packages

CanisterWorm: npm Publisher Compromise Deploys Backdoor Across 29+ Packages

As of March 21, 2026, the CanisterWorm supply chain attack has expanded to 135 malicious package artifacts spanning more than 64 unique packages. We are tracking the incident on Socket’s dedicated CanisterWorm supply chain attack page: https://socket.dev/supply-chain-attacks/canisterworm. According to the Wiz investigation report released on March 20, 2026, the attack is attributed to “TeamPCP”, a threat actor behind the earlier Aqua Security's Trivy attacks [1 and 2]. We continue to monitor…

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