On March 31, 2025, Stripe shipped the Basil API version. Among other changes, it removed three fields from the Subscription object that a lot of production code was reading: current_period_start — moved to subscription items current_period_end — moved to subscription items billing_thresholds — removed entirely (later reintroduced — more on this) If you upgraded your account's default API versi
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GitHub has thousands of open-source apps with binary releases — but finding and downloading the right one is painful. Release pages are buried, and you're left squinting at filenames like app-1.2.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz guessing which one is yours. So I built GHFrog — a browser-based app store on top of the GitHub API. No install, no account needed. Live: ghfrog.pages.dev · Source: github.com/iamovi
Generative AI is no longer just an emerging technology. It is becoming a core business capability across software development, customer support, analytics, content generation, automation, knowledge management, and enterprise productivity. For cloud professionals, developers, data teams, and solution architects, learning Generative AI on AWS is now a high-value career move. AWS provides a growing e
The Model Context Protocol has transformed how we connect AI to tools. But connecting agents to tools is only half the battle — connecting agents to each other is where the real challenge begins. I recently read @raviteja_nekkalapu_'s excellent article "I built an AI security Firewall and made it open source because production apps were leaking SSNs to OpenAI" and it resonated deeply with challeng
When stepping into the world of data engineering, Apache Airflow is likely one of the first tools you will encounter. It is the industry standard for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows. Before building our first DAG, it's important to know what has changed in Airflow 3.1.0. Initially, Airflow users imported DAGs and tasks from airflow.models and airflow.decorators. I
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