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MERGE CONFLICT DIGEST
September 26, 2025
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Frontend Development 🎨

Bring PNPM's minimumReleaseAge flag to VSCode package suggestions within 60 days (1 minutes read)
PNPM VSCode

VS Code’s package‑dependency autocomplete should honor PNPM’s minimumReleaseAge, preventing auto‑suggestion of ultra‑recent releases. A new feature request by @Ecksters on 18 Sep 2025 calls for filtering suggestions to versions meeting the age threshold.

dharma: A state management library
Dharma

The API offers a straightforward, user‑friendly interface that prioritizes intuitive design and minimal learning curves, enabling developers to quickly onboard and start building or integrating features within minutes, thanks to clear documentation.

How Vue Animations Enhance User Engagement and Interaction on Digital Platforms (5 minutes read)
Vue Animation Alibaba

Vue Animation counters digital engagement woes by adding fluid motion, micro‑interactions, and storytelling to static interfaces, boosting attention, simplifying data, guiding users, and enhancing brand image, as proven by Alibaba, Grammarly, Behance, Xiaomi results.

Backend & APIs đź”§

Tired of messy SQL queries? I wrote a guide that helped me clean up mine (1 minutes read)
SQL Airbyte PostgreSQL

Tanmay Bansal explains SQL’s inner workings from parsing to retrieval, using Airbyte, AWS DMS, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery examples. He highlights a 1,500‑line query, Superset dashboards, real bugs, and practical debugging rules for late‑night slow reports.

Decision Log: Why writing down your technical choices is a game-changer (5 minutes read)
DecisionLogging

Poczwardowski asserts our former self is the strongest mentor, urging decision logging to document context, options and outcomes. By reviewing key choices, managers uncover hidden insights, and he invites participation in his Hacking Engineering Management course.

Clean Architecture: Why It Saves Projects Where a “Simple Change” Stops Being Simple (4 minutes read)
CleanArchitecture Go

Clean architecture, especially hexagonal style, keeps complex Go systems resilient by isolating core rules from frameworks, databases, and protocols, eliminating tangled dependencies and domain erosion, thus improving testability and parallel development—benefits rising with product longevity despite overhead for simple projects.

🛠️Golang Source Code Essentials, Part 0: Compiler Directives & Build Tags⚡ (7 minutes read)
Golang BuildTags

The first part of a new Go runtime internals series explains how compiler directives and build tags—like //go:noescape, //go:noinline, //go:nosplit, //go:linkname—affect stack usage, inlining, symbol visibility, and unsafe interactions, plus modern build syntax and a hall of shame.

Someone finally implemented their own database backend with our Go SQL engine (2 minutes read)
Go Grafana Dolt

Dolt’s SQL engine lets Go programs supply backend logic via simple interfaces. Grafana recently added this by wrapping its Frames as sql.Table and sql.Database, enabling queries on dashboards with minimal code, and future support for writes and indexes.

Products & Industry Moves 🚀

Give your AI eyes: Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP (16 minutes read)
ChromeDevTools MCP

Chrome DevTools MCP, announced September 2025, lets AI assistants become live web debuggers by exposing Chrome’s DevTools Protocol via an open Model Context Protocol server. Clients like Cursor and Claude can navigate pages, inspect DOM, capture performance, and verify fixes.

‎Content Management Workflows: How to Streamline Creation and Publishing for Maximum Impact ‎ ‎ (3 minutes read)
CMS Asana GraphQL

The article argues effective content derives from a structured workflow, not just ideas, offering five steps—from idea capture to KPI analysis—that boost consistency, engagement, illustrated by a team’s Asana transition and increased output, underscoring CMS for sustained growth.

AI in Society & Economy 🌍

How to Write AI Prompts That Actually Work (And Make Your Images Look Amazing) (3 minutes read)
GraphQL AI

AI image generation struggles when scene elements clash, causing lighting inconsistencies, mismatched styles, odd proportions, and jarring backgrounds. Prompt engineering—defining a unified light source, coherent surroundings, consistent styles, realistic proportions—solves this, producing integrated images from kitchens to neon cyberpunk cityscapes.

Security & Privacy đź”’

SSL: Your Website's Digital Seatbelt (4 minutes read)
SSL HTTPS

SSL encrypts traffic between server and browser, flagged as https and a padlock. It protects data, boosts SEO, builds trust, and satisfies PCI DSS. Drawbacks include handshake delay, renewal costs, limited protection to transit, and mixed‑content challenges.

Why Every Audit Department Needs an Automation Upgrade
RiskManagement Automation GRC

Automated audit practices are reshaping risk management, internal audit, and the GRC ecosystem by streamlining data collection, analysis, and reporting; a complimentary walkthrough demonstrates improved accuracy, speed, and coverage, boosting compliance and operational efficiency.

Github Repos 🌟

vanna (Repo)
Python agent ai data-visualization database llm rag sql text-to-sql

Facilitates conversational querying of SQL databases using LLMs, converting natural language into SQL through retrieval‑augmented generation for accurate results.

actions-runner-controller
Go github-actions kubernetes operator

Manages GitHub Actions self‑hosted runners in Kubernetes, automating deployment, scaling, and lifecycle as a controller operator.

register (Repo)
JavaScript cloudflare free-domain

Registers and configures your own sweet‑looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain using Cloudflare DNS and GitHub Pages for free developer hosting.

Risks & Criticism ⚠️

Sticky Session Failure: From Stateful Chaos to Stateless Resilience Sticky Session Failure (5 minutes read)
Redis GraphQL

Sticky‑session routing causes Black Friday crashes, creating failure points, load skew, and deployment headaches. The article contrasts in‑memory sessions with a Redis‑backed stateless model that auto‑cleans, clusters, and includes a demo.

Regulation & Compliance ⚖️

ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps (19 minutes read)
ChatControl EndToEndEncryption Privacy

EU's ChatControl law would mandate that all communication services scan users' private messages and images before encryption, flagging any child‑sexual‑abuse content for reporting. Critics say it jeopardizes end‑to‑end encryption, sparks false positives, and threatens privacy; an opposition block already exists.

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