Best of The New Stack — September 2025

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    Meet the 11-Year-Old Whose Code Was Adopted by a Gaming Giant

    An 11-year-old programmer from Vietnam, Damir Buldakov, developed a Scratch SDK plugin for Playgama gaming platform that was officially adopted by the company. His JavaScript-based extension allows Scratch developers to connect their projects to Playgama's network of 300 million users. The gaming platform recognized his contribution with a mentorship program and financial award, demonstrating how young developers can make meaningful contributions to major tech platforms.

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    Linux: Deploy a Honeypot to Catch Your Server’s Attackers

    Learn how to deploy Cowrie, an open-source SSH/telnet honeypot on Ubuntu Server to detect and study unauthorized access attempts. The guide covers installation dependencies, creating a dedicated user, setting up a Python virtual environment, configuring port redirection, and monitoring logs to catch potential attackers before they reach production systems.

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    How Vite Became the Backbone of Modern Frontend Frameworks

    Vite has rapidly become the dominant build tool for modern frontend frameworks within just five years. Created by Evan You, Vite leverages ES Modules to provide faster development experiences compared to Webpack. Starting as Vue Dev Server in 2019, it evolved into a framework-agnostic tool with Vite 2.0 in 2021, gaining adoption across Vue, React, Svelte, Astro, and other frameworks. You's company VoidZero is now developing Vite+, a unified toolchain that combines multiple Rust-based tools with AI integration features.

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    Apache Kafka 4.1: The 3 Big Things Developers Need To Know

    Apache Kafka 4.1 introduces three major developer-focused features: Queues for Kafka (KIP-932) enabling cooperative message consumption with per-message acknowledgment, native JWT-Bearer authentication support eliminating static credentials, and a new Kafka Streams rebalance protocol for better coordination. The release also includes improvements to consumer group protocols, transaction handling, and unified metrics.

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    Go Experts: ‘I Don’t Want to Maintain AI-Generated Code’

    Two experienced Go programmers discuss the impact of AI-generated code on their language and the software development industry. While Go's popularity is rising partly due to AI compatibility, they express concerns about the quality of AI-generated code and its maintainability. The conversation explores whether bad AI code is worse than bad human code, the overwhelming volume of AI output, and how this affects junior developer learning. Despite concerns about code quality and the loss of mentoring opportunities, they remain optimistic about programming's future, viewing the current period as transitional.

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    Broadcom Ends Free Bitnami Images, Forcing Users To Find Alternatives

    Broadcom has discontinued its free Bitnami image program, forcing users to find alternative sources for pre-compiled application images and Helm charts. The change affects many Kubernetes deployments that relied on Bitnami's well-maintained images and charts. While Broadcom now offers commercial Bitnami Secure Images with enhanced security features, the transition creates risks including deployment failures and security vulnerabilities. Several vendors are stepping in to provide alternatives, and the CNCF clarified that Helm itself remains unaffected as an open source project.

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    How To Deploy a Full-Stack, Containerized Network Infrastructure Visualizer

    Atlas is a Docker-based network infrastructure visualizer that deploys in under two minutes and automatically maps all devices on your network. Built with Go, FastAPI, NGINX, and React, it scans Docker containers and local subnets to detect devices, retrieve OS fingerprints, MAC addresses, and open ports. The tool provides an interactive web dashboard on port 8888 for real-time network topology visualization and monitoring.

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    Python Dataclasses: A Complete Guide to Boilerplate‑Free Objects

    Python dataclasses provide a streamlined way to create structured objects with minimal boilerplate code. They automatically generate common methods like __init__, __repr__, and __eq__, support type hints for better code safety, and offer advanced features like immutability, ordering, and memory optimization through slots. Dataclasses are ideal for configuration objects, data transfer objects in APIs, and domain entities where you need multiple instances of structured data with the same fields.

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