9 July 2025

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Is it still worth using jQuery in 2025?

In the early days of web development, jQuery was the undisputed king of front-end libraries. Modern JavaScript now includes many features that jQuery originally provided. So, should developers still use jQuery over vanilla JavaScript today?

Why XSS Persists in This Frameworks Era?

Introduction Hi, I’m canalun (@i_am_canalun ), a security researcher at GMO Flatt Security Inc. This article explores the question: “Why Does XSS Still Occur So Frequently?” We will delve into why this notorious and classic vulnerability despite the widespread…

Diffusion Elites: surprisingly good, simple and embarrassingly parallel

Introduction Hi ! I was going to publish this content on ArXiv but I decided to write a blog post this time so I can write it a bit more informally =) It is not a secret that Diffusion models have become the workhorses of high-dimensionality generation: start …

On Chasing the Right “Zero.”

Once you've dedicated yourself to making the things you love, every inbox can and should become a well-monitored servant rather than a pitiless master.

Disappointed by Gemini CLI

After a month of using Claude Code, I tried Google's Gemini CLI. The installation process was so frustrating that I never got to test the actual capabilities. Here's what went wrong and why user experience matters in AI tools.

(Quite) A Few Words About Async

I’ve had a few conversations about async code recently (and not so recently) and seen some code that seems to make wrong assumptions about async, so I figured out it was time to have a serious chat about async, what it’s for, what it guarantees and what it doe…

Tree Borrows

The state machine at the heart of Tree Borrows.

Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.