Cybersecurity CVE-2026-41940: The cPanel Authentication Bypass That Runs 70 Million Domains and Is Being Weaponized Right Now CVE-2026-41940 is a CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in cPanel/WHM affecting every version after 11.40. It was a zero-day for two months, 44,000 IPs are now scanning, ransomware has deployed, and a state-linked actor is hitting Southeast Asian government networks. Patch now.
Software Development Zed 1.0 Is Out — And the Guy Who Built Electron Just Proved It Was a Mistake Zed 1.0 Released — The man who built Electron at GitHub created Zed to fix the damage. Here's the full technical story of why Electron is broken and what Rust + GPU rendering actually changes.
Web Servers How Authentication Actually Works Authentication is a cornerstone of contemporary applications. Virtually every app demands user login, identity verification, and secure sessions. Though it's ubiquitous, many developers implement authentication without a complete understanding of it's inner workings. This article breaks down authentication step-by-step, explaining the core concepts used in most
Web Development TypeScript 7.0 Beta Is Out — The Compiler Is Now Written in Go and It's 10x Faster TypeScript 7.0 Beta dropped yesterday. The entire compiler has been ported from TypeScript/JavaScript to Go, and the numbers are real. The Sentry codebase drops from 133 seconds to 16. Editor startup drops from 9.6 seconds to 1.2. Memory usage is roughly halved.
Cybersecurity What is OAuth? Every time you click "Sign in with Google" or "Connect your GitHub account," you are using OAuth. You have used it hundreds of times. Most developers have implemented it at least once. And the April 2026 Vercel breach, which exposed credentials for hundreds of organizations, happened
Artificial intelligence Build Your Own AI Coding Assistant With Access to Your Entire Codebase (2026) GitHub Copilot charges $19/month and sends your entire codebase to Microsoft's servers. You can build something better — one that knows your whole project, costs $0/month after hardware, and never phones home.
Artificial intelligence AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet. The Numbers Are Staggering. ChatGPT. Claude. GitHub. All of them went down — repeatedly — and it's not a coincidence. AI agents are generating traffic at a scale human developers never could, and the infrastructure holding up your entire dev workflow was never designed for this.
Artificial intelligence OpenClaw: The Lobster That Broke the Internet, Burned Through Every LLM's Compute Budget, and Started a War Between Anthropic and OpenAI A retired Austrian developer built an open-source AI agent for fun in November 2025. Within 90 days, Jensen Huang called it the most successful open-source project in human history.
Artificial intelligence AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet — And Nobody's Ready for the Bill ChatGPT went down 28,000-report strong in February 2026. Claude had back-to-back outages within 24 hours in March. GitHub logged 37 incidents in a single month and is running at 90.21% uptime — one nine, not three. AI agents aren't just using infrastructure.
Programming Languages Markdown Is a Programming Language. Fight Me. The dev community has spent 20 years calling Markdown 'just a markup language.' They're wrong. Here's the full technical case — parse trees, AST internals, the CommonMark spec, Pandoc's extended grammar — plus why Markdown is the fastest way to write long documents that has ever existed.
Web Development TypeScript 6.0 Is Out, and It's the End of an Era TypeScript 6.0 dropped today. It's the last version of TypeScript written in TypeScript. Strict mode is on by default, ES5 is gone, outFile is dead, and TypeScript 7.0 — rewritten in Go — is right behind it. Here's everything that changed and what you actually need to do.
Artificial intelligence Amazon's Mass Layoffs, Kiro AI, and Why Shipping AI-Generated Code to Production Should Terrify You Amazon fired 1,800+ engineers while forcing staff onto its Kiro AI tool. Here's why that's a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen — and what it means for every developer.
Web Development Bun v1.3.11: Cron Jobs, ANSI Slicing, Markdown Rendering, and What Changed Under the Hood A production deep dive into Bun v1.3.11 — covering Bun.cron for OS-level scheduling, Bun.sliceAnsi for terminal-aware string slicing, enriched Markdown rendering callbacks, path-ignore patterns for test discovery, and the dgram UDP fixes that unblocked real-world libraries on macOS.
Artificial intelligence ChatGPT Is Building Its Own Code Repository — And I Have a Lot of Thoughts OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor — a technical breakdown of Git internals, version control history, and what this move signals about OpenAI's strategy.
Artificial intelligence Featured How to Use AI Coding Tools to Speed Up Development (Without Losing Your Mind or Your Skills) Learn how to use AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to speed up development, cut boilerplate, and ship faster — without becoming dependent on the machine.
Cybersecurity What is SSRF? Server-Side Request Forgery and the Attack That Breached Capital One SSRF tricks your server into making requests to internal systems — cloud metadata services, internal APIs, AWS credentials endpoints. It turned a WAF misconfiguration into 100 million stolen Capital One records
Cybersecurity What is Supply Chain Security? Dependencies, SBOMs, and the Attack That Hit 2.6 Billion npm Downloads Your application is only as secure as every package it depends on. In September 2025, attackers compromised 27 npm packages with 2.6 billion weekly downloads by phishing one maintainer.
Cybersecurity What is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)? The Attack That Turns Your Website Against Your Users XSS injects malicious JavaScript into web pages served to other users — stealing sessions, redirecting to phishing pages, or silently exfiltrating data. It's been in the OWASP Top 10 since 2003. Here's every type, how each one works, and how to actually fix them.
Cybersecurity What is SQL Injection? The Attack That's Been Destroying Databases Since 1998 In 2008, attackers used SQL injection to breach Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processing company. They stole 130 million credit and debit card numbers. The breach cost Heartland over $140 million in settlements and fines. The CEO described it as an "international cybercrime ring." The technical execution was
Systems Administration What is a Web Server? Apache, Nginx, and How the Internet Delivers Web Pages A web server accepts HTTP requests and returns responses. Apache has been doing this since 1995. Nginx rebuilt the model in 2004 and took over the cloud. Here's how they work, how they differ, and how to pick between them.
Cybersecurity What is Encryption? The Math That Keeps Your Data Private Encryption transforms readable data into unreadable ciphertext that only someone with the right key can reverse. It's what makes HTTPS, messaging apps, banking, and password storage work. Here's how it actually functions.
Cybersecurity What is Cybersecurity? The Field That Keeps the Internet From Collapsing Cybersecurity is the discipline of protecting systems, networks, and data from attack, damage, and unauthorized access. Here's what it actually covers, how attacks work, how defense works, and why every developer needs to understand it.
Self Hosting Why I Switched from WordPress to Ghost for CoderOasis I exclusively used WordPress somewhere between 2008 to 2019 – if not earlier than that for me. At least eleven years. That's a good long time to dedicate to a platform. And honestly? For most of that time, I thought WordPress was fine. I was managing my blog, publishing
Web Development Writing Your Own API From Scratch in TypeScript Tutorials that show you how to build an API in 50 lines of code are lying to you. This is what a production TypeScript API actually looks like — authentication, validation, error handling, rate limiting, database connection pooling, structured logging, and a test suite. All of it, from scratch.
Web Development What is an API? The Contract That Makes Software Work Together An API is a contract between two pieces of software. One side defines what requests it accepts and what responses it sends. The other side follows that contract to get work done. Every app on your phone, every website pulling live data, and every service talking to another service uses APIs.
