Sisyphus, cursed by the gods to forever push an immense boulder up a hill, has been given a new task. He must now update NPM dependencies for a large, enterprise scale Node application.

It seems like every week there's another story of NPM packages being hacked, hacking developer machines, or just mining crypto currency. Thankfully a new report states that NPM is now more secure than ever before with an average of only 1 in 3 packages knowingly containing malware.

Reports have come in about developer Wayne Dakawski, who prefers to run PowerShell in his Linux environments. Teammates are referring to him as a 'maniac' for doing this.

Using LLMs to help write software is becoming more and more common. These days, some people are even using them a couple times a week! The more developers use them, the more edge cases they hit. Below is a handy guide to help get past the common issues that can pop up when using an LLM/Agent to help write software.

"There's no way it's an illusion. The frequency of software bugs has been getting worse and worse since OpenAI invented A.I."

As professional software developers, it's useful to know how people work when using different technologies than us. If you don't normally work with C#, this interview with a typical C# developer will help introduce you to their daily lives. It's educational *and* informative.

Reports indicate the software SaaS company Pyrple has informed the office dog, Mr Ruffles, to skill up on A.I. software development or be let go from the company. No more free head pats from the team to celebrate a job well done, or all-you-can-eat doggie treats in the break room.

A.I. coding agents are already improving developer productivity to levels unseen in the history of software development. Developers are writing code 1.1x times as fast, and in some cases even 1.13x as fast. But what if coding agents could unlock an even more productive way of working? The developers at Anthropic have done that with a new mode for Claude Code.

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) community has released an out of band update to their famous "Top 10" list of critical security risks. Each category title, like "Injection" or "Broken Access Control", is abstract to fit a wide range of risks, like how your code is one big risk.

There are many heated arguments software developers have amongst each other. *So. Many. Arguments.* Like feral cats, software developers will hiss, growl, or bare their teeth when in the midst of such an argument. One debate amongst them, developers not cats, is the difference between a UUID and a GUID. We spoke to some developers to understand the pros and cons of each so we could come to a final conclusion and save them from themselves.

Looksmaxxing, some new fad kids are doing to make themselves look better, has made its way into the software development industry. Jeffery Cook, Staff Developer at D'Amore Software LLC, has fallen for the fad his son has become so obsessed with.

Local developer Diego Cala is about to go into the office for a chill last day of the week. He usually works from home Friday, his one day a week. But the team decided this day is special. They'll all go to the new pizza restaurant across the street for lunch. It has one of those Coke machines with every flavor. They all hate those machines, but won't admit it. Diego is feeling good about today. It feels right. He's even on track to get in at 8:25 am because he didn't smack the snooze button. But Diego doesn't know just how bad the day will be.

Your code sucks. I know it. You know it. Everyone on LinkedIn knows it. But improving your code isn't just aspirational anymore because as of this morning, the latest standard from the DevExMatters Standards Working Group, YouGood v1.0, was ratified saying your code can't suck anymore.

"Everyone thought Microsoft would screw up NPM when GitHub acquired it, but I think this proves all the haters wrong." The opening line from GitHub's latest announcement regarding NPM is a bold statement, but accurate.

The developers at Soft And Co. have developed a new service architecture which has improved their development throughput by nearly 300%.