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dev.to > oleg_merkulov > a-turing-machine-in-minecraft-2120

A Turing Machine in Minecraft

7+ hour, 58+ min ago   (370+ words) This is an English translation of my original article on Habr, originally published in Russian. A... Tagged with showdev, minecraft, computerscience, programming....

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dev.to > mahirhir > both-verifiers-were-honest-agreed-with-each-other-and-the-signatures-still-failed-503n

Both verifiers were honest, agreed with each other, and the signatures still failed

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (576+ words) Forty signed records stopped verifying. Two independent verifiers said so. Neither of them was wrong, and neither of them could tell me why. The recipe both tools implement is sha256(public_key || header). I checked it by hand against the code and against…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > a-red-gate-and-a-silent-one-turned-out-to-mean-the-same-thing-2age

A red gate and a silent one turned out to mean the same thing

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1328+ words) I wrote up an incident here a couple of days ago: CI on a Rust project I maintain showed red for weeks, and not one of those jobs had ever started. The cause was billing. The scheduler was refusing each…...

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dev.to > datacpp_8185 > the-gate-rejected-nothing-so-i-injected-40-bugs-to-see-if-it-could-4ecg

The Gate Rejected Nothing. So I Injected 40 Bugs to See If It Could.

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (982+ words) An agent-patch gate that never rejects a patch is a hypothesis, not a control. You cannot measure what it catches until you give it something to catch. So I stopped trusting real patches and started manufacturing failures. The method that…...

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dev.to > thebraindonor > introducing-crypts-and-commits-3igo

Introducing Crypts and Commits

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1390+ words) The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part One There is a lot of conversation right now about one developer coordinating forty coding agents. I am not going to pretend I know whether that is good or bad. It is…...

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dev.to > juangcarmona > define-once-cite-everywhere-eg2

Define once, cite everywhere

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (180+ words) Run this on any repo doing spec-driven development: Same rule, three specs, three wordings — and two meanings. 30 days from purchase is not 30 days from delivery. Nobody decided that fork. A coding agent paraphrased it into existence, and no human caught…...

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dev.to > jyotipathak__ > why-were-building-vault-as-a-source-first-interaction-library-2fo0

Why We’re Building Vault as a Source-First Interaction Library

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (905+ words) I work on Vault at Hyperiux, an interaction library for React and Next.js. Most people first encounter it through the visual side of the product: a cursor effect, a text interaction, a transition, a scroll treatment, or something running…...

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dev.to > thegatewayguy > cedar-could-stop-one-bad-tool-call-dogwood-stops-bad-sequences-1jik

Cedar could stop one bad tool call. Dogwood stops bad sequences.

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (368+ words) "Point-in-time decisions make sense for many forms of access control, but when agents compose multiple actions into longer workflows, the sequence itself becomes something teams want to govern." That's the gap Dogwood fills. Cedar is stateless. You give it a…...

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dev.to > smukker > lesson-4b-validation-testing-the-gate-itself-1lhf

Lesson 4b - Validation: Testing the gate itself

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (569+ words) The last lesson was about validating what a model hands you. The story behind it: a set of prompts that had returned real, criteria-matched vendors for weeks came back in staging with placeholder junk, literally the words Vendor A, Vendor…...

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dev.to > konark_13 > the-day-i-became-a-bug-hunter-3e41

The Day I Became a Bug Hunter

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1108+ words) This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Did anyone ask for... Tagged with devchallenge, bugsmash, bounty, testing....