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Using pnpm & dependabot? Security alerts silently cease when you upgrade to v9

If you’re using pnpm as a package manager and dependabot for security alerts – be aware, if you’re running pnpm v9, dependabot will no longer flag required updates for components with vulnerabilities, as it doesn’t support the v9 lock file.

It’s a known issue internally at GitHub, but it caught us out after we upgraded from v8 to v9 – … Read more “Using pnpm & dependabot? Security alerts silently cease when you upgrade to v9”

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Amazon’s sustainability quagmire

Amazon has been marking their own homework and giving themselves 10/10 in their latest sustainability report. The reality is vastly different:

  • Annual carbon emissions have grown by 40% since 2019.
  • They claim to have reached 100% renewable energy usage in their data centres – in reality, they get an estimated 22% renewable energy from local utilities in the regions Amazon
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The end is in sight…

So… I’ve been somewhat busy recently! My Computer Science finals start this Saturday… and then a week later, my degree will all be over – one way or another! It’s been a great three years, but I’m really looking forward to being able to start work in the “real” world. Watch out, here I come ;-,,)

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Holiday!

Well, I’m now off Uni for 3 months over the summer, which should mean I’ll finally get time to code my ASP.NET content management system for Developer Fusion…. write some articles in the process, plus squish a few bugs on the C#/VB.NET code converters!

Attended a great talk by Scott Guthrie a few weeks ago on ASP.NET 2.0 at the … Read more “Holiday!”

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The Coolest DHTML Grid Widget

Came across another great DHTML Widget on SourceForge today (thanks to my good friend Thushan Fernando for pointing it out to me!). It’s a cross-browser grid called ActiveUI, complete with client-side sorting, resizable columns and icons! Very cool. Take a look at http://www.activeui.net/.