If you write software for anyone who pays UK tax, sooner or later you'll need to talk to HMRC . Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax went live on 6 April 2026, and it's already mandatory for...
Let's say you have enough credit left to generate one more image in an AI app. You submit a request in one browser tab, then submit another in a second tab before the first finishes. The app accepts...
Your Apple Watch can tell you how fast you're moving, how your heart responds to exercise, and how your workout changes over time. But one of its more interesting fitness metrics is something it...
Here's a program restricting itself, then trying to read two files: without landlock: read /etc/hostname ok read /tmp/secret.txt ok with landlock, /etc allowed: read /etc/hostname ok read...
Every other AI product you open today has the same screen: a message list, a text box at the bottom, and words that stream in one token at a time. It looks simple, but it's not simple to build well....
HTML has a <geolocation> element now. While it’s only supported in Chrome’n’friends for now, it’s progressive-enhancement-able. I covered it in our 2026 HTML article and also blogged about its...
So you shipped your AI feature and it works in demos. Your team is impressed. Then a user asks a question slightly outside your test cases and the model confidently returns something completely...
Malware used to be simple to describe. A virus attached itself to a file, and antivirus software removed it. That world is gone. Today, a single attack can steal your passwords, lock up your photos,...
Your birthday tells you how many years you've been alive. But it doesn't necessarily tell you how your body is aging. Two people can be the same age and still have very different levels of...
Almost everyone has snapped two LEGO bricks together at some point, even without owning a single set as an adult. You press one brick down onto another, feel it click, and it holds. You likely never...
On August 13, 2026, DeepSeek published a GitHub repository called deepseek-harness . Within two days, it had passed 95,386 stars and 8,826 forks (a vanity metric on its own, but a spike this fast...
Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it...
StyleX has been around for a while, but it’s seeing a resurgence in popularity lately for whatever reason. Seems pretty good to me. You don’t have to write atomic CSS, but you get atomic CSS output...
Most software products eventually need some form of background task processor: sending emails, processing payments, syncing data, generating reports, and more. As software engineers, we either end up...
Ever since the commercialisation of the Graphical User Interface pioneered by systems like the Xerox Star and popularised by the original Apple Macintosh , software has relied heavily on...