AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share
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I recently shipped MetaBulkify, a Shopify app for bulk editing metaobjects via CSV. (Part 1 covers the metaobject-specific challenges.) The metaobject stuff was hard, but the Shopify platform stuff was harder. Here are three traps that aren't obvious from the docs. Week 1 of development. Nothing works. metaobjectDefinitions query returns an empty array. No error message. Just... nothing. The probl
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By Q2 2026, engineering teams building local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines will waste $47M annually on managed vector databases they don't need – and Pinecone 2.0's 300% price hike over its 1.0 release is the biggest culprit. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (842 points) A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mer
In Q1 2026, our team audited 14 2FA libraries for Next.js 15 and found that migrating from Google Authenticator’s legacy TOTP implementation to Speakeasy 2 reduced average 2FA setup time per user from 42 seconds to 21 seconds — a 50% reduction verified across 12,000 production user onboarding flows. ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,252 stars, 30,994 forks 📦 next — 155,273,313 downloads last month Data
I downloaded an AI agent. It was wired to invoke malware. Six months ago a Mickai engineer downloaded an AI agent from a public MCP (Model Context Protocol) marketplace. It was wired to invoke a Living-Off-the-Land Binary (LOLBAS) chain that downloaded a remote payload through a signed Microsoft binary, executed without writing to disk, and left no signature for any static scan to catch. None of
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