A practical guide for Node.js developers on identifying outdated npm packages with known security vulnerabilities, covering built-in npm commands, third-party tools, and how to triage what actually needs fixing.
LLMs occasionally hallucinate package names, and attackers register those names preemptively. Even real recommendations can be typosquatted with one-character substitutions. This article explains the risk and the detection tools.
Your package.json quietly accumulates security risks: unpinned versions, abandoned packages, and exposed credentials. Here is how to find and fix them before they find you.
Running containers in production without locking them down is one of the most common ways AI-assisted developers ship vulnerabilities. Here are the Docker security mistakes that actually matter, and how to fix them.
Without HEALTHCHECK in Docker or readiness probes in Kubernetes, the orchestrator has no way to know your container is actually serving traffic. This article shows how a ten-line addition prevents silent failures from affecting users.
Side projects are prime targets for abuse when they have no rate limiting. This article walks through the real-world impact, what attackers actually do, and how to add basic protection without a weekend of work.
dangerouslySetInnerHTML, unescaped URL parameters, and raw HTML from rich-text editors are the XSS vectors that LLMs routinely introduce. This article explains each pattern and the React-idiomatic alternatives.
Most solo founders ship with incomplete error handling, no alerting, and hardcoded secrets they forgot about. This production readiness checklist covers the basics you actually need before going live.
Committed .env files and developer copies with production credentials are a rite of passage in vibe-coded projects. This article walks through the 12-factor config methodology and the low-effort tooling that replaces ad-hoc env files.