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GitHub Changelog

Customize Dependabot pull request branch names

You can now customize the branch names Dependabot creates for pull requests. New pull-request-branch-name options in .github/dependabot.yml let you set a prefix and maximum length, choose segment and word separators,… The post Customize Dependabot pull request branch names appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Laravel News

Laravel Head: Manage Meta Tags, Open Graph, and JSON-LD

Announced in Taylor Otwell's Laracon US 2026 keynote, Laravel Head is a first-party package that manages your document head with a fluent API covering titles, Open Graph, robots directives, JSON-LD schemas, and performance hints across Blade, Livewire, and Inertia. The post Laravel Head: Manage Meta Tags, Open Graph, and JSON-LD appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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GitHub Changelog

Code coverage automatic enablement in Code Quality settings

We’re making code coverage setup faster and simpler. You’ll now see a new option in your repository’s Code Quality settings that lets GitHub generate your coverage workflow automatically with AI.… The post Code coverage automatic enablement in Code Quality settings appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Martin Fowler

Fragments: August 4

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face. This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in other organizations. Simon Wilison concluded: It’s abundantly clear now that running evals of cyberattack potential in models is a spectacularly risky business. Every AI lab needs to pay attention to this. Keeping a close

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DZone

Rethinking Java Design Patterns: From OOP to FP

The functional programming answer, to those who wonder how to integrate or combine it with object-oriented programming, is usually: Turtles all the way down. This is an aphorism whose origin is credited to Richard Feynman. In his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman !, published in 1985, he tells the story of one of his conferences on the nature of the universe, where he was challenged by someone in the audience, saying that the universe rests on a turtle. Feynman asked then what the turtle i

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