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“Businessmen are only amateurs at failure, just getting used to the notion. Writers are the real professionals.”

“Learn your instrument. Practice, practice, practice. Then forget all that and just wail.”

A small gh one-liner that turns on private vulnerability reporting for every public, non-archived, non-fork repo you own — or every repo in an org you administer — so security researchers have a sanctioned channel to report issues before they go public.

A second year of CLI picks from the Perl Toolchain Summit — terminals, JSON tools, version control, agent sandboxes, and a shell trick worth knowing. Each pick comes with a short description and a link.

A friendly group of developers, no recording, no posturing — just shared screens and honest notes from the second AI Shoulder Surf session. The recurring theme: people are tightening up where their agents can reach, and getting choosier about which models they trust with the work.

Dependabot’s defaults can make it look like an agent of chaos. Here’s how cooldowns, dependency groups, and a Claude skill turn down the churn — fewer rebases, boring CI, and a few extra days for the world to flag the bad actors.