The constraint system stops a bad call before it leaves the JVM. The Safe Codebase Audit Pipeline stops bad code before a client ever loads it. What remains is identity: who is calling, and can you verify it? Most frameworks answer with a token check at the door. A filter validates a bearer token, sets a thread-local variable, and hopes that nothing downstream forgets to look at it. DirtyChai answers differently.[…​]

I’ve been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and opens pull requests to automatically bump them. It’s similar to Dependabot in that it keeps your dependencies up to date. If I had to compare them in one sentence, I’d say Renovate is less integrated in the GitHub ecosystem, but handles more ecosystems and, more importantly, is extensible.[…​]

The IoT/IIoT world has a data model problem and the concept of Digital Twin has made this issue more important. Plenty of people have tried to fix it. RFC 9880 and its Semantic Definition Format (SDF) are a serious attempt: a JSON-based, ecosystem-neutral way to describe what a device is and what it does. I have had some experiences with this specification, and I’ve understood that the format shows its full value once you treat it as source code, something you compile.[…​]