I created an account on VRBO today and was shocked by their password policy. A password with over 30 characters was flagged as “weak” simply because it didn’t contain special characters. We can do better than this.

This is the current state of digital security: passwords so complex that humans can’t remember them, pushing us all toward password managers (which, let’s be honest, we should be using). But here’s the thing - while there are some standards and best practices for password security, implementation is wildly inconsistent. Each business decides how much they want to enforce “good” password policies, and even when they try to follow security methodologies, the execution is all over the map.

You end up with systems that reject genuinely strong passwords while accepting demonstrably weak ones, all because someone’s algorithm prioritizes symbols over entropy.

It’s security theater at its finest.

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Two minor gripes with the Gemini CLI tool. I know, I know … it just came out.

1. There’s no init command to automatically get it to generate its context file. I asked it to do it, and it created an empty file, and then I had to follow up with a second prompt to get it to update the file with helpful information. I’m never going to use that until it’s easier.

2. I ran a few prompts, and it automatically switched to the flash model, and there’s no way to control what model it uses. Like maybe I’m okay with a bit slower responses if it means I can use the pro-model. I’d like the ability to be able to control this, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to switch between the models.

Before: 🔴 47 Dependabot PRs clogging my repo

After: 🟢 3 meaningful updates per week

The secret? One .github/dependabot.yml config to ignore patch updates while keeping security fixes.

Sometimes the best feature is the one that does less work 😌 #Productivity #GitHub #LessIsMore #JavaScript

Claude Code is awesome. Junie is awesome. I want to try Claude Code GitHub Actions but its not included in the Max Plan. What Agents have been working well for you? #javascript #dev #webdev #fullstack

Happy 30th Birthday to PHP! To celebrate, I updated my CodeIgniter project to the latest version, refactored a bunch of stuff. I added a reference implementation of Vue to it. Claude helped. 🎉

https://github.com/llbbl