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Developer Tools

Your AI API Call Leaves the Country

From a server in Singapore, OpenAI's API accepts a connection in 6.2ms and takes 237ms to say anything. Anthropic's: 2.3ms and 278ms. A Singapore S3 bucket answers in 34ms. The connection is local; the answer is a transpacific round trip, and an agent loop pays it every step.

19 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

Your Bank Is Still on IPv4

We asked DNS whether 18 institutions across six ASEAN economies — the largest bank, the government portal and the biggest telco in each — publish an IPv6 address. Seven do. Five of the six banks do not, and four of them already pay for a CDN that would do it for free.

19 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

SpaceX Now Owns The Editor: The US$60bn Cursor Deal Has Closed

The largest startup acquisition on record was paid entirely in SpaceX stock, and Cursor now sits inside a new SpaceXAI division. Developers should watch one thing above the price: whether the editor keeps routing to rival frontier models.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Developer Tools

GitLab Patched a Flaw That Lets Anyone Delete Public Projects

CVE-2026-19478 needs no credentials and no user interaction, and its headline capability is destruction rather than theft. Only self-managed installations need to act, which is where the regulated estates are.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Developer Tools

What We Actually Run, and What It Would Cost Managed

Our whole production stack holds 1.48 GiB — 70% of it MySQL, and just 107.8 MiB serving every page. The surprise was that three throwaway CI containers used more memory than production itself.

18 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Developer Tools

Cursor gives its cloud agents a proper home: multi-repo environments and faster Docker builds

Cursor has built dedicated development environments for its cloud coding agents, letting one setup hold every repository an agent needs and rebuild Docker images 70 per cent faster through layer caching. It is plumbing, not glamour, but it is the plumbing that decides whether agents are usable on real codebases.

1 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

Notion opens a developer platform and turns the workspace into a home for AI agents

Notion has launched a developer platform that lets teams run custom code, sync outside databases and plug in AI agents — its own and others, including Claude and Codex — directly inside the workspace. The note-taking app is positioning itself as the place where work agents actually live.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
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