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Prisma Next is 50% faster than Prisma 7 | Benchmark

Prisma Next reaches about 50% higher peak throughput than Prisma 7 and holds latency low under load, closing most of the gap to the raw pg driver while keeping Prisma's type-safe, model-first workflow.

Spring Cloud 2025.0.3 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Spring Cloud 2025.1.2 (aka Oakwood) Has Been Released

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What a Mailman service shutdown reveals about the state of mailing lists in 2026

DreamHost is shutting down their hosted Mailman service on July 31. If you run a I'll be upfront: I built EMail Parrot, a privacy-first mailing list relay, and this Mailman is roughly 25 years old. That longevity is a credit to the project, but it The original Mailman model assumes email is mostly plain text and that threats are HTML email is the norm, and with it comes an entire passive tracking surface -- pixels, CSS-based trackers, fingerprinting links -- that Mailman passes through without i

Clifford’s (aka, Claire’s) Device in C and C++

Introduction If you’ve been programming in C or C++ for a while, you likely have heard of Duff’s Device that takes advantage of C’s often-derided “feature” where case blocks “fall through” into the next case (if any). Regardless of what you think of that, I only recently discovered that there’s another “device” known as Clifford’s Device (alternatively known as Claire’s Device). While the problem it solves is completely different from Duff’s, it uses on another of C’s quirks. Sometimes you ha

Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-31

Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-31 Headline: Two big bets landed in the same week — Workflows arrived as a proper first-class primitive, and the ClickUp human-approval loop closed end-to-end. The pieces are all there; now we stabilise. This is your weekly look at everything that shipped, the choices we made, the trade-offs we accepted, and the things we're still wrestling with. Pull up a chair. PR #86 · v2026.603.0 The biggest drop this week. @DennisDenuto landed Workflows as a company-s

How to Get Hermes Agent to Use AgentMail (And Why It's Harder Than It Should Be)

How to Get Hermes Agent to Use AgentMail (And Why It's Harder Than It Should Be) Someone on Reddit asked me this today, and honestly, we went through the exact same struggle. So here's the full breakdown of what's going wrong and how to fix it. You've set up AgentMail. You've got your API key. You've added it to ~/.hermes/config.yaml. Hermes says it can see the MCP AgentMail service running. But when you ask it to check your inbox... nothing. Or worse, it gives you a 403. This is one of the mo