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How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

Lauren Goode: What’s an example of that? Louise Matsakis: So, for example, there were some Chinese influencers who were spreading these conspiracy theories that Indians were plotting to use the visa to immigrate to China en masse. Lauren Goode: Interesting. You’ve both covered China’s businesses and workforce for years. Was this backlash surprising to you?…

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šŸš€ Blinter The Linter – A Cross Platform Batch Script Linter

Yes, it’s 2025. Yes, people still write batch scripts. No, they shouldn’t crash. What It Does āœ… 157 rules across Error/Warning/Style/Security/Performance āœ… Catches the nasty stuff: Command injection, path traversal, unsafe temp files āœ… Handles the weird stuff: Variable expansion, FOR loops, multilevel escaping āœ… 10MB+ files? No problem. Unicode? Got it. Thread-safe? Always. Get…

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The Right Way to Handle 404s in Angular SPAs with Nginx

Modern Angular and other single-page applications (SPAs) often break one of the web’s oldest conventions — returning the correct HTTP status code. When every route, valid or not, serves index.html, even a nonexistent page returns 200 OK. This confuses search engines and creates ā€œsoft 404ā€ issues that hurt your site’s SEO. This article walks through…

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AWS IAM ACCESS ANALYSIS & REPORTS

šŸ“Œ This article is part of the AWS IAM Deep Dive series. 1. What is Access Analysis & Reports in IAM? AWS IAM Access Analysis & Reports are built-in tools that help you monitor, audit, and understand permissions across your AWS environment. They help you detect unused, excessive, or risky permissions — ensuring you always…

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Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren’t Giving Up

Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. ā€œThese apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They’re publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing…

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Implementing Astro Pagination for Large Data

When I was building the MCP directory for Free DevTools, I ran into a problem: loading 13,000+ repositories from JSON at once was painfully slow. I initially tried to build a custom pagination component, but it didn’t work efficiently — everything had to load at once before the UI even appeared. That’s when I started…

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Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa

ā€œFrom the outset, the Global Gateway has been described as the European Union’s attempt to rival the Belt and Road Initiative’s overseas infrastructure investment funds. At €300 billion through 2027, however, it is a David-versus-Goliath-style undertaking,ā€ says Gabriele Rosana, an associate fellow at the Institute of International Affairs in Rome. China has already been investing…

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