Identity checks can tell you a sales lead is a real person at a real company. They cannot tell you the lead is genuine. Here is why every layer that tries to prove legitimacy, from bot detection and honeypots to email and SMS verification, only raises the cost against an AI-equipped adversary instead of stopping them.
LLMs made spam and bot leads hard to spot with traditional filters. Here is an idea: score every sales lead on the sales side with AI checks on domain age, the website behind the email, and the person submitting it, then rank by quality so the sales team spends time where it pays off.
Subsetting Lato and Inter with pyftsubset and re-compressing with brotli cut my Next.js font payload ~89%. The commands, real numbers, and tradeoffs.
The Shai Hulud worm poisoned a pnpm cache in GitHub Actions to hit TanStack and 170+ npm packages. How it worked and the steps I took to harden my repos.
The official Claude Code extension had five behaviors that added friction to my workflow. Rather than waiting, I built a companion extension that patches it in-place.
A comparison of SwiftUI and AppKit as UI frameworks for macOS, covering how each handles layout and rendering, where each performs well, and what the choice means at scale.