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If you've ever built a scraper that worked perfectly in dev and then got blocked or CAPTCHA'd the moment it hit production traffic volume, you already know why proxy choice matters. This post breaks down residential proxies from a practical, implementation-focused angle: what they are, when to use them vs. alternatives, how to wire them into common tools, and how the major providers stack up. TL;DR Residential proxies route requests through real ISP-assigned IPs, so they're harder for anti-bot systems to fingerprint than datacenter IPs. Rotating residential proxies are for scraping/data collection. Sticky sessions (or static ISP proxies) are for anything stateful — logins, checkout flows, long-lived account sessions. Nstproxy is a good default pick if you want residential, static ISP, and mobile proxies under one API/dashboard instead of juggling multiple vendors for different parts of your stack. For large-scale enterprise scraping, Oxylabs and Bright Data have the most mature tooling. For budget/prototype work, IPRoyal, DataImpulse, and Webshare are worth testing. Proxy types, quickly Type Use for Pros Watch out for Residential Scraping, SERP checks, ad verification Looks like real user traffic Usually billed per GB Static ISP Long-lived sessions, account workflows Fast + stable IP Less useful for high-volume rotation Datacenter Speed-sensitive, low-stakes tasks Cheap, fast Easiest to fingerprint/block Mobile Mobile-first platforms/apps Strongest trust signal Most expensive per GB A production-grade scraping/automation stack often uses more than one of these at once — e.g., rotating residential IPs for crawling, and static IPs pinned to specific browser profiles for anything that requires a login. Wiring a residential proxy into your code Most providers give you a host:port endpoint plus username:password auth, and let you control rotation/session stickiness through the username string. A typical setup looks like this: Python ( requests ): import requests proxy_ho

Revolutionizing Content Automation: Building Multi-Agent Pipelines with LangGraph TL;DR : LangGraph transforms AI content automation by enabling sophisticated multi-agent systems. It orchestrates specialized agents for complex tasks, integrates seamlessly with Celery for asynchronous task management, and uses Redis for efficient state tracking. This framework surpasses traditional workflows by supporting dynamic decision-making and complex agent interactions. Introduction Imagine content automation systems that are intelligent and adaptive, capable of understanding context and making decisions autonomously. LangGraph, a cutting-edge framework, is making this vision a reality by empowering developers to build dynamic, multi-agent content pipelines. As AI engineers and system architects strive to automate intricate content processes, LangGraph offers a robust alternative to traditional linear workflows, promising enhanced efficiency and adaptability. LangGraph's Orchestration Capabilities LangGraph excels in orchestrating multiple specialized agents within a single pipeline. Unlike traditional systems, which often rely on linear processes, LangGraph enables the simultaneous operation of various agents, each with specific roles and expertise. Key Features Agent Specialization : Engineers can design agents specialized in tasks such as research, writing, editing, and publishing. Each agent functions independently yet collaboratively within the pipeline. Dynamic Interactions : Agents interact in real-time, sharing data and insights to refine content outputs collectively. Complex Task Handling : The architecture supports complex task management, ensuring each agent contributes effectively to the overall goal. Multi-Agent Collaboration and Specialization The core of LangGraph is its multi-agent collaboration mechanism. This shift from linear workflows to collaborative systems enables specialization, significantly improving the quality and efficiency of content automation. B

France is accelerating its transition to post-quantum encryption: France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical operators to shift away from older systems. Samih Souissi, ANSSI’s chief of staff, said at the France Quantum conference that the agency would halt such certifications from 2027, and that businesses should be buying only quantum-safe products by 2030. ANSSI approval is required for use in French government agencies and critical infrastructure, making the policy a de facto phase-out of older encryption...

Your codebase almost certainly relies on RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography — TLS, JWTs, SSH keys, signed tokens. All of it is breakable by a large enough quantum computer (Shor's algorithm), and "harvest now, decrypt later" means data you encrypt today can be captured today and decrypted later. Regulators noticed: CNSA 2.0 (US federal + suppliers), DORA (EU financial entities, applies from Jan 2025), and NIS2 now mandate strict cryptographic risk management — which in practice means knowing where your quantum-vulnerable crypto lives, a cryptographic bill of materials (CBOM). Most teams can't answer "where is our RSA/ECC?" off the top of their head. Here's how to make CI answer it for you, on every push, for free. What we're building A GitHub Action that scans your repo, grades its post-quantum readiness A–F , writes a CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM , and — if you want — fails the build when classically-broken crypto (MD5, RC4, 3DES, deprecated TLS) shows up. Step 1 — try it in your browser first (30 seconds, nothing uploaded) Before touching CI, paste a package.json / requirements.txt / cipher list into the in-browser scanner and see your grade. It runs entirely client-side — no upload: https://throndar.ai/cbom Step 2 — add it to CI (the 5 lines) # .github/workflows/pqc-readiness.yml name : PQC readiness on : [ push , pull_request ] jobs : scan : runs-on : ubuntu-latest steps : - uses : actions/checkout@v4 - uses : brandonjsellam-Releone/pq-readiness-scorecard@v1 with : path : . That's it. The Action is self-contained and dependency-free — no npm install , no setup step. On the next push it prints a scorecard to the job summary: Post-Quantum Readiness Scorecard: D (52/100) — Quantum-vulnerable — migrate 3 files · broken-classical 0 · quantum-broken 4 · weakened 1 · resistant 0 Step 3 — see findings in the Security tab (SARIF) The Action emits SARIF 2.1.0. Upload it and every finding shows up as a code-scanning alert: - id : pqc uses : brandonjsellam-Releone/pq-readiness-score

I just shipped 5 new tools to DevNestio — a hub of 172 free, browser-only developer utilities. All tools are zero-signup, zero-upload, and work offline. 1. GraphQL Query Formatter & Minifier https://devnestio.pages.dev/graphql-formatter/ Paste any GraphQL operation and get: Pretty-print — consistent indentation Minify — strips comments and whitespace for smaller request payloads Validation — brace/parenthesis balance check Operation detection — lists all named query , mutation , subscription , fragment Useful for quick query cleanup before pasting into code reviews or API docs. 2. Protobuf (.proto) Formatter & Validator https://devnestio.pages.dev/protobuf-formatter/ Online formatter and validator for Protocol Buffer .proto files: Duplicate field number detection Message and enum structure validation Syntax-highlighted output One-click copy Great for a sanity check before pushing .proto changes in a gRPC service. 3. Docker Compose Validator https://devnestio.pages.dev/docker-compose-validator/ Paste your docker-compose.yml to catch: Missing services section Services without image or build Invalid port mappings ( 80:80 , 127.0.0.1:8080:80 , 53:53/udp , ranges…) depends_on referencing non-existent services Circular dependency detection (A→B→A) Unknown restart policies # This will flag errors: services : web : ports : - " abc:xyz" # invalid port depends_on : - missing_service # unknown service 4. Dockerfile Analyzer & Linter https://devnestio.pages.dev/dockerfile-analyzer/ Analyzes your Dockerfile for best practice violations across three categories: Security sudo usage inside RUN Container running as root (no USER instruction) Secrets baked into ENV / ARG (password, secret, token, key) Image size :latest base image tag apt-get update in a separate RUN (stale cache risk) apt-get install without --no-install-recommends apt cache not cleaned ( rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* ) ADD used for local files instead of COPY Layer optimization Consecutive RUN instructions (suggest c

We’ve all been there. You have a "Leg Day" scheduled in your Notion database, but you woke up feeling like a truck hit you. Your Apple Watch says your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is in the gutter, but your rigid calendar doesn't care. Usually, you’d either push through and risk injury or manually move cards around in Notion—which is a friction-filled nightmare. In this tutorial, we are building a Self-Optimizing Health Agent using LangGraph , Notion API , and HealthKit . This agent acts as a closed-loop system: it analyzes your physiological recovery data, reasons about your physical state using an LLM, and automatically rewrites your training schedule. By mastering AI agents , LLM orchestration , and fitness automation , you’ll turn your static "To-Do" list into a dynamic "Should-Do" list. 🥑 The Architecture: The Bio-Feedback Loop Using LangGraph , we can treat our fitness logic as a state machine. Unlike a linear script, a graph allows our agent to decide whether it needs to fetch more context (like yesterday's sleep) before making a final decision on your workout. graph TD Start((Start)) --> FetchHRV[Fetch HRV Data via HealthKit] FetchHRV --> CheckRecovery{LLM: Analyze Recovery} CheckRecovery -- "Low Recovery (Fatigued)" --> ModifyNotion[Action: Downgrade Workout Intensity] CheckRecovery -- "High Recovery (Fresh)" --> KeepNotion[Action: Maintain/Boost Intensity] ModifyNotion --> UpdateNotion[Update Notion Page] KeepNotion --> UpdateNotion UpdateNotion --> End((Done)) style CheckRecovery fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px style FetchHRV fill:#bbf,stroke:#333 Prerequisites Before we dive into the code, ensure you have: Python 3.10+ LangChain & LangGraph installed ( pip install langgraph langchain_openai ) Notion Integration Token (with access to your workout database) HealthKit SDK (Note: Since we are in a Python environment, we'll simulate the HealthKit fetcher, though in a real-world scenario, this would be bridged via a FastAPI endpoint from an iOS app). St

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Built for the WeMakeDevs × Cognee "The Hangover Part AI" hackathon — Cognee Cloud track. ▶ Play it free: vegas-amnesia.vercel.app · ⭐ Code on GitHub The problem with most memory demos When you give a developer a memory API, the demo almost always looks the same: add() some documents, search() over them, print the answer. Two functions. It works, it's fine, and it teaches you almost nothing about why graph-based memory is different from stuffing everything into a context window. Cognee actually has a four-stage lifecycle — remember → recall → memify → forget — and the interesting parts are the two everyone skips. memify consolidates what you know into new inferences. forget lets you delete a belief and watch the graph heal around it. Memory you can reason over and correct . So instead of writing another RAG demo, I asked: what if the memory lifecycle wasn't the plumbing — what if it was the game ? Meet HAL-9001 You play HAL-9001 , a personal AI assistant (yes, HAL 9000's slightly more helpful successor). Your owner Dev had a wild night in Vegas. At 6 AM your memory graph was corrupted. His fiancée Priya lands at noon, there's a suspicious ring on his finger, and you remember nothing . The screen boots to a "MEMORY CORRUPTED" terminal and an empty graph. Your job: reconstruct the night, catch the lies, and answer the final question — what happened, and where's the ring? — before noon. Every location you explore, every clue you examine, every witness you interrogate feeds a live 3D memory graph that you can pop open at any time. That graph isn't a visualization of the game state. It is the game state — it's your Cognee dataset, rendered. The four mechanics = the four lifecycle ops Here's the mapping I'm most proud of. Each Cognee operation is a verb the player performs: You do this in-game Cognee Cloud call What happens 🗂 File It on a clue POST /api/v1/remember The fact is ingested + auto-cognified into graph nodes that pop into view ❓ Ask HAL a question POST /api/v1/r

Bootstrap 5 and Tailwind CSS are the two most popular CSS frameworks in 2026. If you're starting a new project and trying to decide between them, this guide gives you an honest comparison based on real-world usage — not just feature lists. The Core Difference Bootstrap 5 gives you pre-built components. Tailwind CSS gives you utility classes to build your own. That's the fundamental difference and it drives every other comparison. With Bootstrap you get a navbar, modal, card, and dropdown out of the box. With Tailwind you build those yourself using utility classes like flex , px-4 , bg-blue . Neither is wrong. They solve different problems for different teams. When Bootstrap 5 Makes More Sense You Need to Ship Fast Bootstrap's pre-built components mean you spend less time on UI and more time on business logic. For admin dashboards, CRM panels, and internal tools — where UI consistency matters more than pixel-perfect custom design — Bootstrap is the faster choice. Your Team Knows HTML and CSS Bootstrap has a shallow learning curve. Any developer who knows basic HTML and CSS can pick up Bootstrap in a day. Tailwind requires understanding its utility-first philosophy and memorizing class names. You're Building an Admin Dashboard Admin dashboards need data tables, modals, dropdowns, sidebars, and form components — all of which Bootstrap provides out of the box. Building these from scratch with Tailwind takes significantly more time. You Want Predictable Output Bootstrap's components look consistent across browsers and screen sizes without extra configuration. Tailwind output depends heavily on how well your team implements it. When Tailwind CSS Makes More Sense You're Building a Custom Marketing Site If your design is highly custom — unique layouts, non-standard components, pixel-perfect design system — Tailwind gives you more flexibility without fighting Bootstrap's default styles. You Have a Design System Already If your team has a defined design system with specific t

Every major cloud provider sells a key management service, and most sell a "bring your own key" option layered on top, marketed as the difference between trusting the provider and trusting yourself. The pitch is clean. The mechanics underneath are not, and the part that actually determines who can read your data is rarely the part the sales page shows you. If you've provisioned storage on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure in the last few years, you've seen the encryption-at-rest checkbox: "encrypt with a key you manage." It sounds like a meaningful control. In practice it's three different architectures wearing the same marketing label, and they don't provide the same guarantee. What a KMS Actually Does A cloud Key Management Service is a hosted service that generates, stores, and performs operations with cryptographic keys on your behalf. When you ask a KMS to encrypt something, in most cases the plaintext key material never leaves the service's boundary. What you get back is a ciphertext blob and, for envelope encryption schemes, a wrapped data key you can use locally. The design goal is real: keys shouldn't sit in application memory or config files where a compromised host can grab them. The question that matters is not "does a KMS exist in this architecture" but "who can invoke it, and under what legal or operational conditions." That's where customer-managed keys and bring-your-own-key start to diverge in ways the naming doesn't make obvious. Customer-Managed Keys vs Bring-Your-Own-Key Customer-managed keys (CMK) means the key was generated inside the provider's KMS, under your account, and you control the access policy: who can use it, when it rotates, whether it can be disabled. The key material itself still lives entirely inside the provider's infrastructure. You never see the raw bytes. You're managing permissions on a key you didn't generate and can't export. Bring-your-own-key (BYOK) means you generate the key material yourself, outside the provider's environme

Web Scraping with Python in 2026: Best Libraries and Anti-Bot Strategies Web scraping in 2026 looks very different from 2020. Sites are smarter, anti-bot systems are more aggressive, and the legal landscape has evolved. Here's what actually works now. The 2026 Scraping Landscape Challenge 2020 Solution 2026 Solution Bot detection Rotate User-Agent Fingerprint randomization + residential proxies CAPTCHAs Manual solving Turnstile/hCaptcha solvers JavaScript rendering Selenium Playwright (faster, more reliable) Rate limiting Sleep between requests Adaptive pacing + request signing IP blocking VPN rotation Residential proxy pools Best Libraries in 2026 1. Playwright (Best for JS-heavy sites) from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright def scrape_with_playwright ( url ): with sync_playwright () as p : browser = p . chromium . launch ( headless = True ) page = browser . new_page () page . goto ( url , wait_until = " networkidle " ) data = page . query_selector_all ( " .job-item " ) results = [] for item in data : title = item . query_selector ( " h2 " ). text_content () results . append ( title ) browser . close () return results 2. httpx + Selectolax (Fast, no JS needed) import httpx from selectolax.parser import HTMLParser def scrape_static ( url ): resp = httpx . get ( url , headers = { " User-Agent " : " Mozilla/5.0 " }) tree = HTMLParser ( resp . text ) for node in tree . css ( " .listing " ): print ( node . text ()) 3. API-First Approach (Always check first!) Many sites have hidden or public APIs that make scraping unnecessary: url = " https://www.freelancer.com/api/projects/0.1/projects/active/?query=python " data = httpx . get ( url ). json () Anti-Bot Strategies That Work 1. Request Fingerprint Randomization import random def get_random_headers (): browsers = [ " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 " , " Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 " , ] return { " User-Agent " : random . choice ( browsers ), " A

This continues from Part ① . In Part ②, we'll configure the common settings and the internal-processing Power Automate flows. Common Settings Setting Up Connections Open Power Automate ( https://make.powerautomate.com ) Go to "Data" → "Connections" → "New connection" and create a Microsoft Dataverse connection Do the same to create an Office 365 Outlook connection Basic Flow Creation Steps Click "Create" → select "Automated cloud flow" (event-triggered) or "Scheduled cloud flow" (recurring) Name flows in the format [Zone]-[Number] [Description] (e.g., "A-1 Opportunity Stage Stall Alert") Always run a test after creating a flow to verify it works 2. Internal-Processing PA Flows — 4 Flows (Write-back portions of A-4, C-5, C-6, D-3) Once the common settings are done, it's time to build. A-4: Write Back Stage Changed Date Without this flow, the stall-day calculations in A-1 and B-1 will not work. Implement this first. In Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), a "stage" refers to a major milestone in a process — such as a sales deal or customer engagement — that guides the responsible person through what needs to happen next. It's how a series of activities is visualized and managed. From here, all work is done in Power Automate. Step Task Details 1 Create the flow "Automated cloud flow" → select trigger "When a row is added, modified or deleted (Dataverse)" 2 Configure trigger Table: Opportunities / Change type: Modified 3 Add condition Add a "Condition" action: "When Status Reason (statuscode) has changed" 4 Write-back action "Update a row (Dataverse)" → set cr917_stage_changed_date to utcNow() C-5: Auto-Set Renewal Date + Auto-Create Renewal Opportunity (on Won) On Won close, two things happen: ① auto-set the renewal date to close date + 365 days, and ② auto-create a new Opportunity for the renewal cycle and add it to the pipeline. Step Task Details 1 Create the flow "Automated cloud flow" → trigger "When a row is added, modified or deleted (Dataverse)" 2 Configure trigger Ta

Interesting research on a new class of weak RSA keys: keys with lots of zeros. It turns out that these keys are out in the wild. The badkeys project is an open-source service that checks public keys for known vulnerabilities. While developing this tool, Hanno collected a massive number of real-world keys from public sources, including Certificate Transparency logs, internet-wide TLS and SSH scans, PGP keys, and many others. By searching this dataset for unexpectedly sparse RSA moduli, we uncovered a large number of keys in the wild with the patterns in Figure 1...

After writing drivers for NVMe storage, my bare-metal kernel could load files and run JIT code. However, I was still typing commands into a text-only COM1 serial terminal. I needed a graphical interface. Last night, the second agent took over to build a double-buffered visual rendering compositor on top of the UEFI Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) framebuffer. The V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS 12-Part Roadmap We are building a bare-metal, self-healing operating system running entirely inside the CPU's L3 cache. Here is the roadmap for this 12-part series: Part 1: The Spark — Exposing the "Safe-Room" security leak and building the compiler gate. Part 2: The NDA Language — Designing a content-addressed triplet representation to cure context bloat. Part 3: Ditching the Web Stack — Building a native 30MB IDE with 1,500,000x IPC latency drops. Part 4: The Closure JIT — Compiling AST blocks to nested closures and bypassing borrow checker limits. Part 5: JIT Math Optimizations — Replacing division operations with precomputed 16-bit lookup tables. Part 6: x86-64 Assembler & SCEV-Lite — Compiling scalar loops directly to native code in constant time. Part 7: Classic Compiler Passes — Implementing inter-procedural Dead Code Elimination and loop unrolling. Part 8: Reclaiming Ring 0 — Exiting UEFI boot services and transitioning the kernel to Ring 0. Part 9: Bare-Metal Drivers — Writing a PCI scanner, NVMe block storage controller, and FAT32 parser. Part 10: Synaptic Canvas — Rendering a spatial, force-directed GUI based on model token activation vectors. (You are here) Part 11: Swarms & Hot-Patching — Building multi-agent scheduling and zero-downtime RCU driver updates. Part 12: Self-Evolution — Handing system control over to a local LLM Terminal that self-optimizes via telemetry. This led to the design of the Synaptic Canvas GUI . The Swappable GUI Engines I started by mapping the physical screen buffer pointer discovered by UEFI GOP. I implemented a double-buffering scheme: drawing elem

Why your Cloudflare Turnstile token works in the browser but 403s from requests You solved the Turnstile widget. You can see the token in the page. You copy it into your script, POST the form from requests, and the server hands you back a 403 — or a JSON body with "success": false. The token clearly worked a second ago in the browser, so what changed? Short answer: a Turnstile token is not a password you can carry around. It's a one-time, short-lived proof bound to a very specific context, and replaying it from a different context is exactly what it's designed to reject. Below is what that context is, how to tell which constraint you're hitting, and the fix for each. The real scenario You're automating a flow on a Cloudflare-protected site. There's a cf-turnstile widget on the form. You get a token one of two ways: you render the page in a real browser (Playwright/Selenium) and read cf-turnstile-response, or you hand the sitekey + page URL to a solving service and get a token back. Either way, you then submit the form with a plain HTTP client requests, httpx, axios) and it fails. The frustrating part: it's intermittent-looking. The reason it feels random is that there are four separate constraints, and you're usually tripping a different one each time. The four things a Turnstile token is bound to 1. It's single-use Once Cloudflare validates a token server-side (the siteverify call your target makes), that token is spent. Submit twice, retry, or test it once by hand, and the second use returns false. You get a fresh one per submission. 2. It has a short TTL Turnstile tokens expire fast — a few minutes. Solve early, do other work, submit later, and the token can be dead on arrival. The widget auto-refreshes in the browser precisely because tokens go stale; a script that grabs the token and sits on it loses that refresh. 3. It's bound to the sitekey and the page URL Multiple widgets. Some pages embed more than one Turnstile (login + newsletter). Solving the wrong site

Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel checkpoints all flag headless browsers. Here's how to control a real Chromium instance via CDP using Python and websockets. Why Not Playwright? Playwright launches a headless browser with automation flags. Even in headed mode with Xvfb, Google detects it. The CDP Approach Launch Chromium with remote debugging: chromium-browser --user-data-dir = /path/to/profile --remote-debugging-port = 9222 --no-first-run Connect via WebSocket in Python: import asyncio , json , websockets , urllib . request async def get_page_ws (): resp = urllib . request . urlopen ( ' http://localhost:9222/json ' ) targets = json . loads ( resp . read ()) for t in targets : if t [ ' type ' ] == ' page ' : return t [ ' webSocketDebuggerUrl ' ] async def cdp_call ( ws , method , params = None ): msg_id = cdp_call . id = getattr ( cdp_call , ' id ' , 0 ) + 1 msg = { ' id ' : msg_id , ' method ' : method } if params : msg [ ' params ' ] = params await ws . send ( json . dumps ( msg )) while True : resp = json . loads ( await ws . recv ()) if resp . get ( ' id ' ) == msg_id : return resp Key Advantages Real browser fingerprint, no automation flags Persistent sessions, cookies survive across runs Google OAuth works, existing sessions carry over No bot detection, it IS a real browser Follow for more tutorials on browser automation and AI agent architecture.

If you ship a desktop app outside an app store, you eventually hit the same wall: how do you check a license when the user is on a plane, behind a corporate firewall, or just offline? Calling your server on every launch isn't an option. Here's how offline activation actually works, without the hand-waving. The naive version, and why it breaks The first thing everyone reaches for is "call home on launch, get back yes/no." It works in the demo and fails in the wild: No network = no app. Fail-closed locks out paying customers. Fail-open means anyone who blocks your domain runs free. Both are bad. A boolean is forgeable. If your app trusts a {"valid": true} response, a proxy or a patched DNS entry returns that for free. The fix isn't a better endpoint. It's moving the trust off the network and onto cryptography. The model that works: signed leases The durable pattern is a cryptographically signed lease (Keygen calls these license files, Keylight calls them leases — same idea): On first activation, the device talks to the server once . The server returns a small signed document: the license state, an expiry, the device binding, and any entitlements (which features/tiers are unlocked). The document is signed with the server's private key (Ed25519 is the modern choice — small, fast, boring in the good way). Your app ships the matching public key and verifies the signature locally on every launch. No network needed. Because the app only ever verifies with a public key, there's nothing secret in the binary to steal, and a forged lease fails the signature check. That's the whole trick: the server vouches once, math vouches forever after. first launch ──► server signs lease (Ed25519, private key) ──► stored on device every launch ──► app verifies signature (public key) ──► no network Device binding (so one key isn't infinite installs) A lease is bound to a device so a single license can't be pasted onto a thousand machines. The lease embeds a device fingerprint, and the SDK ch

Diagrid has announced the release of Dapr 1.18, introducing what it calls Verifiable Execution, a new set of capabilities designed to bring cryptographic trust, provenance, and tamper-evident execution records to distributed applications and AI agents. By Craig Risi

Cross-posted from noflattery.com/decide — where I ran this exact question through a council of four different frontier models and let them argue it out. You're a solo founder at ~$8K MRR. You have runway for exactly one full-time hire. Which role unlocks the most growth? (A) a second engineer to ship features faster (B) a marketer to build a real acquisition channel (C) a customer-success / support hire to cut churn and free your time (D) a salesperson to chase larger deals The intuitive answer for most technical founders is A — more shipping velocity. The case below is for C , and it's stronger than it looks. (With one caveat that can flip the whole thing — stick around for it.) TL;DR: At ~$8K MRR solo, hire customer success first if churn is real or support is eating your week . If voluntary churn is under ~3% and support is light, hire a marketer instead. Engineer and sales come later. The case for customer success first 1. Churn quietly eats growth before features can add it. At $8K MRR, 5% monthly churn is ~$400/month bleeding out before you grow an inch. Across bootstrapped SaaS in the $5–15K MRR band, the strongest predictor of reaching $50K isn't feature velocity or channel — it's net revenue retention above 90% . That's a customer-success function, not an engineering one. 2. You are the bottleneck, and support is eating you. As a solo founder you're doing product, sales, billing, and support. If support takes ~15 hours a week, that's nearly 40% of your capacity — and it's the cheapest thing to hand off. A CS hire costs less than a senior engineer or an experienced salesperson, and it buys back the hours (and the headspace) you need to think strategically again. 3. It's a research department in disguise. A CS hire generates the highest volume of qualitative signal: why people leave, what they actually use, what they'd pay more for. An engineer builds what you think users want. CS tells you what they actually need — which means the engineer you hire next buil

Sony's A7R VI finally serves up speed and resolution together thanks to the new 67MP stacked sensor.