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datasette-fixtures 0.1a0

datasette-fixtures 0.1a0

Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database tables used by Datasette's own tests, intended for plugin test suites. This new plugin takes advantage of that API. You can try it out using uvx without even installing Datasette like this: uvx --prerelease=allow \ --with datasette-fixtures datasette \ --get /fixtures/roadside_attractions.json Which…

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Quoting Armin Ronacher

Quoting Armin Ronacher

The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it. Typically, it was prompted so badly that the conclusions produced are more often than not inaccurate but always full of confidence. The result is complete guesswork on root causes, fake-minimal repros, suggested implementation strategies, analogies to…

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Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games

Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games

Tool: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games Via Hacker News I learned that UK publisher Usborne published free PDFs of their 1980s Computer Books, some of which I remember working through on my Commodore 64 as a child. These were so great! Beautifully illustrated books with fun projects made up of code you could type into your own machine. I remember playing "Mad House" typed in from the 1983 book "Creepy Computer Games", so I fed that PDF into Claude and had it build an interactive version…

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TrapDoor Crypto Stealer Supply Chain Attack Hits 34 Packages and Hundreds of Versions Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io

TrapDoor Crypto Stealer Supply Chain Attack Hits 34 Packages and Hundreds of Versions Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io

Socket researchers have identified an active crypto stealer supply chain attack spanning npm, PyPI, and Crates.io. The campaign, which Socket is tracking as TrapDoor, spans more than 34 malicious packages and 384+ related versions and artifacts across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, with some already removed and others still live at the time of writing. The earliest package Socket observed was the PyPI package eth-security-auditor@0.1.0, uploaded on May 22, 2026 at 20:20:18 UTC, with the wheel…

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On the <dl>

On the <dl>

On the &lt;dl&gt; I learned a few new-to-me things about the &lt;dl&gt; element from this article by Ben Meyer: A &lt;dt&gt; can be followed by multiple &lt;dd&gt; You can optionally group the &lt;dt&gt; and &lt;dd&gt; elements in a &lt;div&gt; for styling - but only a &lt;div&gt;. You can label them using ARIA. They've been called "description lists", not "definition lists", since an HTML5 draft in 2008. So this is valid: &lt;h2 id="credits"&gt;Credits&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;dl…

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Laravel Lang Compromised with RCE Backdoor Across 700+ Versions

Laravel Lang Compromised with RCE Backdoor Across 700+ Versions

A compromise affecting the community-maintained Laravel Lang project has introduced remote code execution backdoors across multiple packages in the organization, including laravel-lang/lang, laravel-lang/http-statuses, laravel-lang/attributes , and laravel-lang/actions across roughly 700+ historical versions. The affected packages are not part of the official Laravel framework. They are third-party localization packages used by Laravel applications. However, applications that installed…

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The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly more expensive over the next few years. The short version is that memory manufacturers - of which there are just three remaining large companies - have a fixed capacity in terms of how many wafers they can process at any one time. This fixed wafer capacity is then split between DDR - used in desktops…

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Malicious Postinstall Hook Found Across 700+ GitHub Repositories, Including Packagist and Node.js Projects

Malicious Postinstall Hook Found Across 700+ GitHub Repositories, Including Packagist and Node.js Projects

Socket researchers identified a coordinated supply chain campaign affecting eight packages on Packagist whose upstream repositories were modified to include the same malicious postinstall script. The script attempted to download a Linux binary from a GitHub Releases URL, save it to /tmp/.sshd, make it executable, and run it in the background. Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json. Instead, it was inserted into package.json,…

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The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities

The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities

View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device communication, and medical imaging. The proof relates to a famous question posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. It has been verified by prominent mathematicians in a companion […] The post The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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