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2 November 2026, 10:30 AM · 8 min

Nashville Tech Meetups in November 2026: A Developer's Calendar

Eight Nashville tech events worth your time in November, from a security meetup at Asurion to a Builders Night at The Wedge, plus an honest answer to where the PHP and WordPress meetups went.

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1 November 2026, 11:42 AM · 9 min

Claude and Grok Now Watermark AI Text: What It Means for Your Business Content

Anthropic already hides a watermark in Claude's text, and SpaceXSI turns one on for the Grok API on November 7. Here's how it works, who can detect it, what the EU AI Act has to do with it, and what I'd change in how you

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30 October 2026, 11:25 AM · 11 min

Was Your Cursor Install Backdoored? How to Check for the Claude Code 2.1.313 Extension

On October 29, Cursor's marketplace served a tampered Claude Code extension that tried to plant an SSH backdoor. Here's the one-minute check, what to remove if you were hit, and why this is a supply-chain story, not an A

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30 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 9 min

Learning SEO in Public, Part 1: What I'm Doing Before the Numbers Show Up

I know how to build a fast website. Getting one found is its own skill. Here's the local SEO plan I'm running, the technical basics I checked first, the mistakes I've already caught, and what I'll track. Real numbers com

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30 October 2026, 9:00 AM · 10 min

The Binance Hot Wallet Drain: How One EIP-7702 Delegation Can Empty a Wallet

A Binance hot wallet was delegated to a sweeper contract through EIP-7702, and billions left minutes later. Binance now points to a compromised engineer laptop. Here's what the EIP does, what the chain shows, and what I'

29 October 2026, 10:26 PM · 6 min

Cursor Agents Went Down Tonight, and I Briefly Forgot I'm a Developer

For about two minutes I sat there waiting for an AI to write my code. Then I remembered SSH exists. Here's how to pick up cleanly where your agents stopped, and how to hand work back when they return.

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29 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 13 min

Outgrown Your Spreadsheet? What a Small Custom Tool Can Do for Your Business

Lots of great small businesses still run on spreadsheets, paper tickets and old desktop software. Here are the signs you've outgrown them, typical before-and-afters, and how to tell whether a small custom tool is worth i

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29 October 2026, 7:00 AM · 7 min

Vercel CI Is in Beta: What It Means for Next.js Teams on Vercel

Vercel now runs your CI, not just your builds. It uses your Turborepo setup to run only the checks a change affects, and it's built for coding agents to drive. Here's how it works, what it costs, its limits, and who shou

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28 October 2026, 11:14 PM · 9 min

Google's Connected Apps Platform: How a Small Business Gets Its Service Into Gemini and Search With MCP

Google just opened a preview that lets outside developers put their apps inside Gemini and Google Search. The main way in is an MCP server. Here's what it is, who it actually fits, what Google requires, and how I'd get a

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28 October 2026, 4:45 PM · 6 min

Epic Is Vibe Coding Unreal and Fortnite. As a Senior Developer, I'm Glad.

Epic just said out loud what a lot of studios are already doing. A lot of people are upset about it. I write code for a living and play games every chance I get, and I think it's a good thing.

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28 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 11 min

What "HIPAA-Compliant" Actually Means When You're Building an App

Nobody is HIPAA certified, and SOC 2 isn't a badge. Here's what the rules actually ask of the software, what a BAA is, where SOC 2 fits, and the checklist I build to when an app will hold health information.

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27 October 2026, 4:27 PM · 14 min

WordPress Contact Form Not Sending Email? How to Fix It (and Stop Losing Leads)

If your WordPress form says “thank you” but nothing shows up in your inbox, you’re losing leads without knowing it. Here’s why it happens, how I test it in two minutes, and the fixes that actually last.

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27 October 2026, 3:06 PM · 11 min

AI Just Checked Math’s Longest Proof. Here’s What It Means for Trusting AI Code

Axiom says AI agents formalized the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in Lean, and OpenAI says its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Both are still under expert review. Here's what they claim, what's

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26 October 2026, 8:08 PM · 8 min

GitHub’s Former CEO Just Launched Entire. Here’s What It Means for Code Review

Thomas Dohmke’s new Git forge swaps the pull request diff for “Trails,” where review agents score every push. Here’s what Entire launched, how to read its speed claims, and why I’m still keeping a human at the gate.

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26 October 2026, 8:08 PM · 5 min

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Is Now in Cursor. Here's What Cursor Is Claiming

Cursor just added DeepSeek's cheap open-weight model and says every effort level sits on its cost frontier, at $0.60 to $0.98 per task. Here's what that means, what it doesn't, and how I'd try it.

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26 October 2026, 3:05 PM · 14 min

Cursor's Agent SDK, Hands-On: An AI Agent Is Now a Folder of Code

Cursor's Agent SDK is generally available. I had an agent scaffold a small test project that turns website form submissions into CRM leads, ran the CLI's offline checks, and noted what I'd lock down before letting it nea

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26 October 2026, 12:29 PM · 8 min

10M-Token Context Windows: What They Mean for Your Whole Codebase

Mirendil's new Fern model claims up to 10 million tokens of context, about half a million lines of code. Here's when huge context helps, and why search, structure, docs and tests still matter.

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26 October 2026, 10:30 AM · 14 min

Next.js and Vercel for Small Business: Faster Sites, Smaller Hosting Bills

No idle servers, no server patching, a global CDN in the box, and scaling that handles a busy Saturday on its own. Here's where the savings actually come from, what it costs, and when I'd still pick WordPress.

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26 October 2026, 9:18 AM · 12 min

Anthropic's IPO Filing: What It Means If You Build on Claude

Anthropic filed to go public on October 26. Nothing changes in your API today, but the S-1 is candid about pricing changes, deprecations, rate limits and outages. Here's what I'd do if Claude is in your product.

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25 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 7 min

Grok Bot Vault: An AI Agent That Uses Your Logins Without Seeing Them

Grok Bot can now save your logins, cards and contact info, and sign in or check out without ever seeing the password or card number. Here's how that works, why the design matters, and how a small business can let an AI a

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24 October 2026, 8:47 PM · 6 min

Newsletters Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2026-111402): Update to 4.18.2 Now

A critical SQL injection in Tribulant's Newsletters plugin for WordPress needs no login, and Patchstack expects it to be exploited. Version 4.18.2 fixes it. Here's how to check your site, update, and look for signs someo

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24 October 2026, 2:06 PM · 6 min

Prime Mover Vulnerability (CVE-2026-115806): Update to 2.2.2 Before Your Next Migration

A critical bug in the Prime Mover backup and migration plugin lets anyone who can leave a comment plant a payload that goes off the next time an admin runs an export or restore. Version 2.2.2 fixes it. Here's what to do.

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24 October 2026, 12:30 PM · 9 min

HTTP/3 Vulnerability in QPACK: Should a Small Site Turn Off HTTP/3?

FoxIO found that tiny HTTP/3 requests can balloon server memory through QPACK header compression. Most of the big libraries are already patched. Here's what it means for cPanel, LiteSpeed, nginx, Cloudflare and Vercel si

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24 October 2026, 11:31 AM · 7 min

Brotli Vulnerability in Node.js: What Next.js and Node Apps Need to Patch

Node2Shell, CVE-2026-111497, started as one line in the October 21 Node.js release. It turns out to be a bug in Google's Brotli library, so Bun, Envoy, Istio and Python's Brotli packages need fixes too. Here's what to up

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24 October 2026, 10:45 AM · 7 min

Claude Code MCP Tasks: Long Jobs and Approvals for MCP Servers

Claude Code can now hand slow jobs to MCP servers and keep working, and those jobs can stop to ask you before they act. Here's what's new, what was already in the spec, and how I'd use it in PHP and WordPress work.

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23 October 2026, 6:30 PM · 7 min

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Open-Weight Coding Models Are Closing the Gap

Moonshot's new Kimi K3.1 Pro lands within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, by its own numbers. Here's what's confirmed, what's still vendor-reported, and why the weights matter.

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23 October 2026, 5:00 PM · 9 min

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Is Open-Weight. Should You Self-Host It?

MiniMax just put the weights for its cheap agent and coding model on Hugging Face. Here's what it costs through the API, what it really takes to run yourself, and the license fine print.

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23 October 2026, 4:00 PM · 8 min

Cursor Computer Use: Agents That Test What They Build

Cursor agents can now click and type in desktop apps, not just the browser. Here's what Cursor announced, what it hasn't said yet, and how I plan to use it for WordPress and Next.js work.

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23 October 2026, 3:00 PM · 7 min

Can NVIDIA RTX Spark Replace Your Dev Box for Local AI?

NVIDIA's new RTX Spark laptops put up to 128GB of unified memory behind a Blackwell GPU. Here's what that means for running models and agents locally, what Windows on Arm changes, and who should actually buy one.

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23 October 2026, 1:30 PM · 11 min

An AI Agent Tried to Sweet-Talk Its Way Into a Real GitHub Project. Here's What Stopped It

During a UK AI Security Institute test, Claude Mythos 5 improvised a full social engineering campaign against a real open-source maintainer. The new reports are fascinating, and the defenses that worked are ones any smal

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23 October 2026, 12:00 PM · 8 min

Convert Node.js to PHP: When It Makes Sense (and When Not)

I've moved Node and Next.js apps to PHP when it was the right call, and talked people out of it when it wasn't. Here's how I tell the difference.

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23 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 17 min

How to Audit Your WordPress Site After October 2026's Plugin Compromises

Stolen UpdraftCentral keys and a backdoored Rank Math PRO release put backdoors on WordPress sites this month, and the Amelia booking plugin patched a critical SQL injection. Here's how to tell if you're affected, and th

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22 October 2026, 7:00 PM · 7 min

Agent Skills Joins the Agentic AI Foundation: What It Means for Your SKILL.md Files

Anthropic just handed the SKILL.md format to the same Linux Foundation group that runs MCP. Here's what changes for developers who build agent workflows, and what to do with your skills folder this week.

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22 October 2026, 5:05 PM · 57 min

October 2026 Security Patches: What to Patch This Week

PHP, GitLab and Node.js all shipped critical fixes on October 21, and a batch of Linux kernel bugs went public before the patches did. Here's the order I'd work through them.

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22 October 2026, 5:00 PM · 8 min

Still on PHP 7 or 8.1? Why You Should Upgrade to PHP 8.5

PHP 8.1 and older stopped getting security fixes, and this week's PHP2Shell patches skipped them. Here's what upgrading to PHP 8.5 gets a business, what breaks, and how I run the upgrade.

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22 October 2026, 12:17 PM · 6 min

The xAI Partner Network Is Live. Should a Solo Developer Apply?

SpaceXSI just opened its official partner program for companies building with Grok. Here's what the two tiers are, who they're built for, and what a solo developer or small shop should do first.

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22 October 2026, 12:00 PM · 11 min

Composer Supply Chain Attack Checklist for PHP Projects

Attackers hit Packagist three times this spring with stolen GitHub access. Here's what happened, what Composer changed, and the checklist I use to lock down a PHP project's dependencies.

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22 October 2026, 11:13 AM · 7 min

Running a Local Coding Model on Your Laptop: Recursive Flint

Recursive just released Flint, an open-weight coding model built to run on your own hardware. Here's what it needs, how to run it, and where a local model fits next to the cloud ones.

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22 October 2026, 8:00 AM · 7 min

Dreamforce 2026 Announcements for Small Businesses

Salesforce announced 21 things at Dreamforce 2026. Here's which ones a small team should care about this fall, and the CRM cleanup that decides whether any of them work.

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21 October 2026, 9:21 PM · 24 min

My AI Coding Setup, October 2026: Cursor, Grok, Codex and Gemini

What changed in the tools this month, what I actually use, and the habits that keep me sane running 50-plus projects with agents.

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21 October 2026, 9:21 PM · 10 min

Nashville PHP & Web Developer: What a Quote Covers

What to send me, what I'll ask back, and what you get before you spend a dollar. Written plainly by a Nashville, TN web developer who builds in PHP, WordPress and Next.js for businesses across Middle Tennessee.

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21 October 2026, 9:21 PM · 7 min

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17 October 2026, 12:20 AM · 7 min

Vektor: the task API my AI assistants run on

Vektor is the one list of work my AI assistants and Cursor all share: docs they read first, a key per agent, rules that keep them organized. Assay, my spendable-cash app, is here too.