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Programming Leftovers
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Scoop News Group ☛ GitLab's critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes
One flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to read files from the server. GitLab urged operators of self-managed installations to upgrade immediately.
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Hackaday ☛ Purely Random TV In Your Browser
The concept is simple enough—it’s a webpage that plays random videos from The Internet Archive. Each session draws videos from a random sequence, with no algorithm or fancy social media nonsense to push some videos over others. As you might expect, you’re in for lots of random and weird stuff, from old Army videos to middle-school basketball games. You can swipe to flick to a different “channel” if you don’t like what’s playing, or you can mark videos you like if you fancied what came up in the random feed. You can also use your phone as a remote if you want to sit back and flick channels like it’s the 90s again or something.
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Bozhidar Batsov ☛ RuboCop 1.91: The Journey to 2.0 Begins
Which leaves us with a lovely little trap. Everything interesting piles up in a queue waiting for a major release; the major release gets scarier the longer the queue grows; so it gets postponed; so the queue grows some more. You can see where this ends. In the 1.0 post I wrote that RuboCop 2.0 would “probably arrive in less than 8 years”, and we’re six years in. I’d very much like to beat my own estimate. I really do!
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Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Clojurists Together Update: July and August 2026
Last time I said that I had plucked most of the low-hanging fruit and that the next two months were unlikely to be as productive. Well, I was wrong. CIDER 2.0 finally shipped, and once it was out the door I used the momentum to sweep through pretty much every corner of the nREPL/CIDER ecosystem. A few long-neglected projects got proper releases, and nREPL got a couple of brand new implementations in languages I play on the side from time to time.
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Rlang ☛ chilemapas is back on CRAN
Maps of the Political and Administrative Divisions of Chile
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Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.4.26RC1 and 8.5.11RC1
Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.
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Perl / Raku
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Perl ☛ HeroDevs Donates $10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
The Perl and Raku Foundation is delighted to announce that HeroDevs has donated $10,000 to support our work. We’re grateful for their generosity — gifts like this go directly toward the people and infrastructure that keep Perl and CPAN healthy.
HeroDevs provides long-term security and support for open source software that has reached its end of life.
As we continue to see support from community members and corporate sponsors, 2026 has been shaping up to be a genuinely good year for Perl and CPAN.
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