Node.js 22.23.0 and Node.js 24.17.0 are the first versions that ship a patched undici, the library behind Node's built-in WebSocket client. We checked this ourselves by pulling
Mon Oct 19 2026 · 7 min read · 4 views
Socket.IO stuck on long-polling is almost always a proxy configuration problem. It usually isn't an application bug. The symptom: the browser's network tab shows a repeating stream of
Mon Oct 19 2026 · 8 min read · 5 views
A plain VPS costs a flat $24 a month in our model. The workload: 10,000 idle WebSocket connections, one message a minute each. Cloudflare Durable Objects costs roughly $32 a month for the same
Mon Oct 19 2026 · 8 min read · 3 views
Upgrading from Vite 7 to Vite 8 can end in a loud failure or a quiet one. The loud one is a build that stops with TypeError: manualChunks is not a function. The quiet one is worse: esbuild: { drop:
Sun Oct 18 2026 · 10 min read · 10 views
Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro stopped receiving security updates on October 13, 2026. If your PC still says 24H2, it has already missed its last protection. The good news is that the fix is
Sun Oct 18 2026 · 9 min read · 11 views
Copilot Pro costs $10 a month and includes 1,500 GitHub AI Credits. How far that goes depends almost entirely on the model you pick. On GitHub's published rates, the same agent session costs 3.4
Sun Oct 18 2026 · 10 min read · 3 views
Python 3.15 changes one default that can quietly alter how your scripts read files. Calling open() without an encoding argument now means UTF-8 on every system. For most code that is a fix. For code
Sun Oct 18 2026 · 10 min read · 10 views
Go 1.27 fails with 'removed GODEBUG set to old value'. We tested every removed setting on Go 1.26.9 and 1.27.2: where it fails, the fix, and one silent timer change.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 10 min read · 7 views
CVE-2026-34742: Go MCP SDK before 1.4.0 accepts any Host header on localhost HTTP servers. We tested v1.3.1, v1.4.0 and v1.8.0, and show the fix and a proxy trap.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 9 min read · 1 views
OpenAI retires gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini and fine-tunes on October 23, 2026. A migration map with real costs: some replacements cost 4 to 5 times more.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 9 min read · 7 views
Go 1.27 runs encoding/json on the v2 engine. We tested 11 LLM-style payloads on Go 1.26.9 and 1.27.2: v1 behaved the same, v2 is stricter, Unmarshal is 2.3x faster.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 10 min read · 2 views
Go 1.27 drains unread HTTP/1 response bodies on Close, up to 256 KiB or 50 ms. We measured connection reuse on Go 1.26.9 and 1.27.2 and found a hard cliff at 257 KiB.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 9 min read · 5 views
Nano Banana Pro costs 2 to 4 times more per image than Nano Banana 2.1. Google's own prices, cost per 1,000 images, and the break-even point where Pro pays for itself.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 8 min read · 3 views
Remotion renders our test video about 3x faster than HyperFrames, but HyperFrames has no licence fee. Measured render times, a cost table and a pick-by-team-size guide.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 8 min read · 14 views
Veo 3.1 Standard costs 4x Gemini Omni Flash per second at 720p. Google's rates, the cost of a finished 30-second video with retries, and the break-even rule.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 8 min read · 8 views
A 30-second AI explainer costs $6.31, $13.01 or $42.76 depending on the stack: Nano Banana stills, Veo clips, Claude Code and a Remotion or HyperFrames render.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 8 min read · 2 views
The working install command for the Remotion skill in Claude Code, a real prompt-to-MP4 run that cost $0.13, and the errors and defaults that trip people up.
Sat Oct 17 2026 · 8 min read · 9 views
Deno Deploy shuts down about six months after October 9, 2026. Here is the dated timeline, a feature map to Cloudflare Workers, and a cost model at three traffic levels.
Fri Oct 16 2026 · 10 min read · 3 views
Bun 1.4.3 claims bun check is 3x to 6.4x faster than tsc 7. We timed both on a Next.js app, Hono and Zod: 2.6x to 4.4x, with identical errors and two caveats.
Fri Oct 16 2026 · 10 min read · 35 views
pnpm 12 is now the npm latest tag. We tested the CI breakers: an ENOEXEC switch failure, a removed flag, and the new workspace settings error, with the fix for each.
Fri Oct 16 2026 · 8 min read · 54 views