How Twitter and LinkedIn Refresh Your Feed Without You Noticing
Twitter and LinkedIn don't really refresh your feed. The client quietly checks for updates, buffers new posts off-screen, and shows a "New p...
Oct 4, 2026
6 min
From 3,800ms to 1.2ms: Optimizing Dynamic OpenGraph Image Generation in Next.js
Dynamic OpenGraph images power social cards on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Discord, but generating 1200x630 PNGs on-the-fly with Satori and remot...
Sep 30, 2026
11 min
Hardening the Edge: Defeating SSRF, Redirect Traps, and Compression Bombs in Next.js Dynamic OpenGraph Generators
Passing user-supplied avatar URLs to @vercel/og turns your Next.js Edge runtime into an arbitrary outbound proxy. Learn how to defeat SSRF, ...
Sep 28, 2026
10 min
Found 897 Fake Followers on DEV.to Here's How I Proved It
A full technical audit of a coordinated follower inflation network — methodology, findings, and a...
Sep 6, 2026
27 min
r4b1t_h0l3
Explore r4b1t Open the r4b1t discovery instrument View the source · Launch the original...
Sep 6, 2026
4 min
How I made it impossible to write spaghetti code. Part 2
This is the part(3) of a series. I suggest you read parts 1 and 2 before this one. In part 2, I...
Sep 6, 2026
3 min
Building a PHP Static Analyzer That Enforces Low Cyclomatic Complexity
This is part 2 of a series of my static analyzer for PHP. If you did not read part 1, I suggest you...
Sep 6, 2026
3 min
Google Slides AI is laughably bad
I was making a slide in Google Slides recently when a small button appeared at the bottom: Beautify the slide.
Sep 3, 2026
3 min
FinderGit v0.1.0 — Stop Tabbing Between Finder and Your Git Client
A day with twelve repositories Before. You have a ~/Projects folder with twelve Git...
Sep 4, 2026
6 min