6 January 2022 · 890 words · 5 mins
A single developer deliberately corrupted two widely-used npm packages, exposing the fragility of the open source supply chain.
30 December 2021 · 979 words · 5 mins
Node.js had a year of steady progress in 2021: Node 16 went LTS, the test runner landed, and the ecosystem continued its TypeScript migration.
23 December 2021 · 978 words · 5 mins
After six months in the GitHub Copilot technical preview, here’s what AI pair programming actually looks like in day-to-day development work.
16 December 2021 · 1001 words · 5 mins
A week after Log4Shell, the patching chaos continues. But the bigger lesson is about software supply chain security and why we need SBOMs now.
9 December 2021 · 845 words · 4 mins
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j has sent the entire industry scrambling. Here’s what you need to know and do right now.
2 December 2021 · 829 words · 4 mins
AWS re:Invent 2021 delivered a clear message: the cloud is moving toward higher-level abstractions, and developers should pay attention.
25 November 2021 · 950 words · 5 mins
AWS re:Invent 2021 is underway in Las Vegas, and the announcements already hint at where cloud infrastructure is headed next.
18 November 2021 · 916 words · 5 mins
CentOS Stream 9 has arrived as the successor to both CentOS 8 and the traditional CentOS model — and the enterprise Linux community is still adapting.
11 November 2021 · 804 words · 4 mins
Popular npm packages coa and rc were hijacked to distribute malware, impacting thousands of projects and raising urgent questions about supply chain security.
4 November 2021 · 783 words · 4 mins
With .NET 6 approaching release at .NET Conf, Microsoft finally delivers on its promise of a single unified platform — and it’s genuinely impressive.
28 October 2021 · 714 words · 4 mins
Facebook’s rebrand to Meta signals a massive infrastructure bet on the metaverse — here’s what it means for developers and platform engineers.
21 October 2021 · 1114 words · 6 mins
The popular ua-parser-js npm package was hijacked to deliver cryptominers and credential stealers, affecting millions of weekly downloads.