DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:50

How Long Does a UK Number Port Actually Take? Data From 480 Real Ports

From my experience, every VoIP sales rep will tell you "porting usually takes 2 weeks". Every customer experience story online says it took 4-6 weeks. Somebody is lying. I pulled the data from 480 ports we have done since January 2024 and here is what the numbers actually say. The raw data 480 ports across: 418 UK geographic numbers (01/02) 38 UK non-geographic (03) 14 freephone (080...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:49

I Tested 9 UK VoIP Mobile Apps for Notification Reliability. Only 3 Passed.

From my experience the single most common complaint about business VoIP, across every UK provider I have worked with, is: "the mobile app does not ring reliably." So I set up a controlled test last month. 9 providers, 200 calls to each, same hardware, same network conditions. The methodology Two test phones: iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 17.4) and Samsung Galaxy S24 (Android 14). Both on the same...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:47

A Realistic Look at VoIP Call Recording Compliance in the UK (PCI DSS, FCA, GDPR)

Honestly, most call recording compliance advice online is written by people who have never had to defend a recording decision to a regulator. From my experience at DialPhone supporting financial services customers since 2022, here is what actually matters. The three UK regimes that touch call recording Regime Who it applies to What it requires GDPR + UK Data Protection Act 2018 ...

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Lobsters • 2026-04-17 17:46

The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie

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Hacker News • 2026-04-17 17:46

Show HN: Waputer – The WebAssembly Computer

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:45

We Migrated a Sheffield Manufacturing Firm Off ISDN in 48 Hours. Here Is What Broke

Last Tuesday, honestly, I thought we had this one wrapped. A 28-person manufacturing firm in Sheffield, 2 office sites, PRI circuits from 2011, mobile twinning that had never worked properly. The owner wanted off ISDN before the end of the quarter. From my experience, these migrations take about 2 weeks start to finish. We did this one in 48 hours and I will tell you everything that broke. ...

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Hacker News • 2026-04-17 17:45

Show HN: Bookmark Tool in Common Lisp

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:43

Jibun Corp's AI Hub Reaches 29 Providers — Adding Meta Llama API & Nebius AI Studio

Jibun Corp's AI Hub Reaches 29 Providers Two New Additions Provider Model Highlight Meta Llama API Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct Meta's official API, Llama 4 generation, OpenAI-compatible Nebius AI Studio Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Yandex-backed EU GPU cloud, cost-efficient Still Just 7 Lines Per Provider meta: { displayName: "Meta Llama", envKey: ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:41

I Built a Personal AI Assistant with OpenClaw

I Built a Personal AI Assistant with OpenClaw — Architecture, Code, and What Actually Works Introduction Most conversations about personal AI focus on capability: smarter models better reasoning human-like conversations But after building a working system with OpenClaw, I realized something different: Personal AI isn’t about sounding intelligent — it’s about being useful under re...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:40

5 self-hosted ebook managers worth trying in 2026

If you're looking for a self-hosted way to manage your ebook collection, there are more good options than ever. Whether you want a simple web frontend for your Calibre library, a full-featured manga reader, or an audiobook server with mobile apps, there's something here for you. Here are five tools worth considering — each with a different focus. 1. Calibre-Web — best for existing Calib...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:37

Building Your First AI Agent with LangChain: From Chatbot to Autonomous Assistant

Introduction Imagine having a personal assistant that can: Answer your questions from your own documents Search the internet for real-time information Execute code and automate tasks Remember your previous conversations That's exactly what AI Agents do — and with LangChain, you can build one in Python in under 30 minutes. In this post, I'll walk you through: What AI Agents are and why they ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:36

Common SOC 2 Failures (Real World)

A field-tested breakdown from actual audit trenches If you’ve ever worked on a SOC 2 audit—especially in a Big 4 or fast-scaling startup—you already know this: 👉 Most companies don’t fail because they lack controls. 👉 They fail because their controls don’t work in reality. This post breaks down real-world SOC 2 failures that repeatedly show up during audits, readiness assessments, and quality r...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:36

Stop Vibe-Checking Your AI App: A Practical Guide to Evals

Most AI demos look great on Friday afternoon. You try five prompts. The model answers smoothly. The summary is crisp. The chatbot sounds helpful. The extraction workflow pulls the right fields out of the sample PDF. Everyone nods. Someone says, "This is basically ready." Then real users arrive... They paste messy inputs. They ask ambiguous questions. They upload documents with weird formatting....

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:35

How to Use SonarQube and SonarScanner Locally to Level Up Your Code Quality

Code quality tools can make a huge difference in improving your coding skills by helping you identify code smells, bugs, and potential vulnerabilities. In this guide, we’ll explore how to set up SonarQube and SonarScanner locally. This allows you to analyze your code for potential improvements right on your machine. Step 1: Setting Up SonarQube with Docker First, ensure you have Dock...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:33

Your Next To-Do App Is Dead — I Replaced Mine with an OpenClaw AI

I Built a Personal AI Assistant with OpenClaw — Architecture, Code, and What Actually Works Introduction Most conversations about personal AI focus on capability: smarter models better reasoning human-like conversations But after building a working system with OpenClaw, I realized something different: Personal AI isn’t about sounding intelligent — it’s about being useful under real-life co...

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Echo JS • 2026-04-17 17:33

47 Cursor Rules for 16 Frameworks — Open Source .cursorrules Collection

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:32

Sign a Nostr event in 60 lines of Python using coincurve — no nostr-sdk, no nbxplorer, no rust toolchain

Sign a Nostr event in 60 lines of Python using coincurve — no nostr-sdk, no nbxplorer, no rust toolchain Every Nostr tutorial I read while wiring up my own agent's publisher loop wanted me to install some variant of nostr-sdk, python-nostr, nostr-tools, or a Rust crate wrapped in maturin. A few of those packages had half-broken BIP340 paths. A couple pinned to cryptography libraries tha...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:32

ITGC Audit Explained Like You’re in Big 4

If you’ve ever worked in a Big 4 firm—or even interacted with one—you’ve probably heard the term ITGC Audit thrown around like it’s basic knowledge. But here’s the truth: Most people think they understand ITGC… until they actually have to perform one. Let’s break it down the way it’s explained inside Big 4 teams—structured, practical, and aligned with how audits really happen. 🔍 Wha...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-17 17:32

Patch Tuesday abril 2026: Microsoft parcha 163 vulnerabilidades y un zero-day en SharePoint

El Patch Tuesday abril 2026 entró en la historia por el volumen y por la gravedad. El 8 de abril de 2026 Microsoft liberó correcciones para 163 vulnerabilidades propias (entre 167 y 169 si se suman parches de Chromium en Edge, Mariner y componentes de terceros, según el agregador que se consulte), convirtiéndose en el segundo ciclo mensual más grande jamás publicado por la compañía, superado única...

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Newest questions tagged javascript - Stack Overflow • 2026-04-17 17:21

Are there security issues with using responseXML property of XMLHttpRequest?

I am writing JavaScript code that runs in a web browser, retrieves a user-supplied XML file, and gets certain information out of it. I know that XML parsing is a potentially dangerous operation if the XML file is untrusted. My plan was to use the built-in XML parsing that occurs when you use the responseXML property of an XMLHttpRequest. However, the information on whether this parsing is protecte...

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