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Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦 retweeted
Got hacked yesterday. The link came from inside Claude chat.
I was installing a transcription app. Claude sent the download link, and I pasted the command into the terminal. It all looked legit.
It wasn't though.
It was a copycat site bundling malware. It ran instantly, tried to take everything from me.
Nothing sensitive got out. So I wiped the laptop and rebuilt clean.
But here's the scary part.
Restoring from the backup, I found a poisoned SKILL.md for Claude Code.
It looked exactly like my own writing style guide.
But buried inside:
it had instructions to silently re-download the malware and steal my credentials every time the AI loaded it.
If I'd restored that one file, my new clean laptop is owned on day one.
What saved me:
I read every skill, hook, and config file before letting the AI touch them.
Two lessons here:
AI assistants will hand you links they never verified. Check before you paste.
And AI agent files are executable code now, disguised as notes. You have to read them.
Stay safe out there.
Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦 retweeted
No, it was not a joke. "Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?" may not be the best way to introduce yourself to an open source project.
#TodayInOpenSource
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Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remakes from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership?
Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months.
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“We’d rather have our employees freeze and lie to our customers than let them cover the precious uniform.”
This company is in Ohio. Winter temps hit below zero regularly.
Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦 retweeted
Americans came 3 votes short of having their insulin capped at $35/month. And it failed because Republicans blocked it. Remember that when you vote this fall.
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A Lego submarine that actually works and has depth control
Source of video: Brick Experiment Channel:
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No. Just no.
ALT Picture of a smartwatch that has a browser winner window open to vsco.dev and it's showing a file explorer next to a window used for editing code
Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦 retweeted
Second issue of mzansi.dev went out earlier this evening.
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Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦 retweeted
I realized recently that I no longer build @Ionicframework apps. Instead, I build Angular apps using the Ionic Framework as my component library.
If I then need to talk to the device, I add @capacitorjs.
From there, I can deploy it just about anywhere I want.
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Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet by @tstrickx and @celso.
blog.cloudflare.com/october-…
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If you give yourself 1 year to build your project, it’ll take 1 year.
If you gave yourself 15 days to build it, it’d take 15 days.
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Introducing Partytown 🎉
- Relocate third-party scripts into a web worker
- Synchronous main thread DOM ops from the worker
- Sandbox and isolate scripts, control DOM access
- React/Next.js or no framework at all
- Lazy loaded 6kb library
dev.to/adamdbradley/introduc…
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The Lit team is proud to announce the stable release of Lit 2.0!
We would like to thank the Lit & web communities for all the feedback and support which continue to make Lit a reality!
Learn all about the Lit 2.0 release here:
lit.dev/blog/2021-09-21-anno…