I'm not a Ruby developer and I had a problem with a Discourse plugin that hasn't been maintained since version 3.x. I heard about Claude's superpowers and that they allowed him to be restricted during the development phase. In half a day, he migrated the plugin to make it compatible with the latest version of Discourse and now it even has a display that is responsive on smartphone and tablet... Am I still a developer after that? 🤨

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That marketing may have outstripped reality. Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities, and requires less hands-on guidance from security engineers - making it a welcome time-saver for the human teams - it has yet to eclipse human security researchers.

"So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't," Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, after revealing that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Then he added: "We also haven't seen any bugs that couldn't have been found by an elite human researcher." In other words, it's like adding an automated security researcher to your team. Not a zero-day machine that's too dangerous for the world.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49143802

Two entirely new diagram types — Venn and Ishikawa — land alongside a significant fix that restores backward compatibility with v10, plus a pile of improvements across flowcharts, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, state diagrams, gitGraph, and more.

A ~200 LOC Rust crate benchmarked against ten other languages — came out ahead of a monomorphized C++ lib by ~4× at sub-fanout dispatch. Hot loop is six instructions. Can you make it faster?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1061363

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A minimal Node.js wrapper around ClamAV that scans any file and returns a typed Verdict Symbol:

• Verdict.Clean
• Verdict.Malicious
• Verdict.ScanError

Zero runtime dependencies. No daemon. No cloud. No native bindings. Works locally via clamscan or remotely via clamd TCP socket (Docker-friendly).

npm install pompelmi

Repo: https://github.com/pompelmi/pompelmi

Alright, so I'll get laughed at here, but one of my 'goals' for work this year is I wanted to take the 4 hour VBA course on youtube and then write a small program after it that does something.

Before you laugh at me using an outdated language, I only chose it because a co worker suggested learning it, and we do use some VBA coded macros in our spreadsheets. We're not a very up to date company.

The reason I never get anything done with learning programming is I never know what to do . And if I do come up with something to do, it will be WAYY too complex over my head, i'll fail at it, then never touch it again. If it's too simple, I won't even want to bother. (Yay ADHD)

So I'm just looking for a couple suggestions for a fun little program to make (and consider the goal 'done'). I know calculators of some sort are an option...I can't really think of anything else. I guess it doesn't actually have to be a useful program but it would be cool if it was.

Hi folks,

I've been practicing game loop logic and input handling by building a small browser shooter entirely in vanilla JavaScript. No frameworks, no build tools—just a single index.html file.

Tech highlights: • Custom virtual joystick with unified mouse/touch input • requestAnimationFrame game loop with velocity-based movement • Boundary collision and smooth 60FPS rendering • ~300 lines of readable, commented JS

This post: Gameplay video showcase of the current prototype.

Looking for feedback on: • Code structure: Any anti-patterns or modern JS improvements? • Input handling: Is the joystick math clean enough? • Performance: Any obvious bottlenecks for low-end devices?

Happy to share the source code if anyone wants to review or tinker. Thanks for your time and constructive thoughts!

Found this gem. A single well made video in a channel. The Channel owner probably made this channel just to house one video I guess.

I havent watched it all the way through but it seems to have alot of substance. By the looks of it the guy probably has spent atleast a year developing professionally in C++ and is pretty pissed to make that video as a ventfest

See if you cant agree with something he said

Hey, I made a thing! It's called doink. Doink gives you dynamic git remotes by using DNS TXT records as pointers.

I wrote a bit about how it works and what it's useful for.

Anyway, do you ever thing about how DNS is a basically a decentralized key-value database? I think about it a lot :)

I have a feeling I'm stuck in tutorial hell, and I need to start actually building things. But I don't know where to start :/

Also I'm really bad at syntax. I only know concepts like for loops, while loops, if-elif-elses, etc...

So maybe something that helps me learn more about coding syntax would be helpful.

Thanks!

A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.