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Project Glasswing is fascinating and terrifying.
We've reached the point where AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities that have escaped human experts for decades.
The same technology can help secure the internet or tear it to shreds.
Lars Jansen retweeted
90% of your marketing effort is invisible to AI. the brand campaign. the event sponsorship. the podcast ads. the influencer partnership. the conference booth. the swag. the billboard. the retargeting pixels. the email nurture. the webinar series. AI sees none of it. AI sees: the H1 tag. the meta description. the schema. the product page text. the FAQ. the comparison page. the review schema. the structured data. the 10% of your effort that lives in HTML is the 100% of what AI reads. the other 90% builds human awareness. important. valuable. but invisible to the machine that increasingly decides who gets recommended. you're investing 90% of effort in the channel AI can't see. and 10% in the channel 51% of buyers now use.
Does your Ubuntu VPS config contain:
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
?
Mine do, saved me some work💪
I've been working on a website that judges other websites.
Somehow it's ended up with an absurdly over-engineered, futuristic interface that looks like it should be controlling a nuclear reactor.
All that technology just to tell somebody their website looks like shit😆
A dev has managed to get USB 3 and experimental USB4/Thunderbolt support to Windows 98 SE.
Windows. Ninety. Eight.
The project is called xHCI98, and there's a wonderfully detailed write-up of how it was done.
I have no practical use for this whatsoever, but I'm very glad somebody decided it needed to exist 😂
There's a special kind of developer maths where paying $8 a month for a useful tool is outrageous, but spending an entire weekend building your own version is perfectly reasonable.
I don't think we're always trying to save money. Sometimes we just want an excuse to have fun building something 😂
It's getting harder to buy a bit of technology and actually own all its features.
Cars, cameras, printers, household gadgets. You buy the hardware, then discover something useful needs a monthly subscription.
Imagine buying a hammer and finding out the claw is $4.99 a month 😂
I'm looking for more people on X who actually make things.
AI tools, little SaaS projects, WordPress plugins, PHP, JavaScript, whatever. Doesn't matter if you're learning or you've been at it for 20 years.
I'd rather follow someone showing off a scrappy weekend project than another account dispensing startup wisdom.
What are you working on?
Went to put an end to the bad bot traffic hitting Beyond the News today and found something I wasn't expecting: we'd been linked in the TLDR email newsletter. 500 visitors later...😮
I was making money from websites back when affiliate networks sent cheques in the post.
No Stripe dashboard. No SaaS subscriptions. Just build a site, rank it and wait for the cheque.
Making software is vastly easier now. Making money from it? Not so much:)
I've been programming for over 20 years and somehow ended up with more unfinished projects now than ever.
AI has made building them ridiculously easy.
It hasn't done the same for finding customers, handling support or convincing anyone to care.
Somebody has built a Git hook that can quiz you on the code your AI wrote before it'll let you push it.
Good idea, if you can't explain what your code does to real data when something goes wrong, perhaps you shouldn't be deploying it just yet.
GitHub's new AI security scanner now checks PHP pull requests.
So we've reached the point where AI writes the PHP, another AI looks for security vulnerabilities, and a human gets to decide whether either of them knows what they're talking about.
Progress💪😆
DeepSeek has opened Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1000 requests.
That's seriously cheap.
After building research automation tools, I've learnt that fetching pages is the easy bit.
Working out which sources to trust is the tricky part.
AI can help write code for almost anything now. But try changing the end-of-cycle tune on a washing machine, or making a smart TV stop nagging you.
So much household hardware is programmable in theory and locked down in practice.