A correct JWT verifier does eight things. Most production verifiers I have read do four or five of them. The other three or four get skipped because the library defaults aren't loud about them, the docs gloss over them, or someone copied a "it works" snippet from Stack Overflow circa 2018. Here is the full eight-check list, what each one prevents, and what it looks like to implement them with stru
State of Software Engineering in 2026: A Reality Check Beyond the AI Hype Three and a half years ago, Matt Welsh, PhD and former Google engineer, published "The End of Programming" in Communications of the ACM and declared that classical computer science was over. The meteor had hit. Engineers were the dinosaurs. The state of software engineering in 2026, he implied, would look nothing like what
GitHub Copilot just got a lot more complicated — and not in a good way. If you tried to sign up for Copilot Pro recently and hit a wall, that's not a bug. GitHub quietly paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans starting in late April 2026. No end date announced. No workaround offered. Just a message and a door that won't open. That alone would be worth covering. But they made t