Friday Links: Claude for VS Code, PHP2Shell, and coding portfolios

Hey there. Quick update: This week, I finished the first draft of Street-Smart Coding in the Age of AI and already reached out to some of my loyal beta readers. You can preorder your ebook copy starting at just $1. In case you missed last email, Street-Smart Coding in the Age of AI is book #3 in my Street-Smart Coding collection. It’s a short and actionable guide to help you leverage AI without becoming dependent on it. The first draft sits around 5K words. You can finish it over coffee. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. If you use Claude Code for VS Code, be aware it was recently compromised (5min). #2. PHP2Shell vulnerability has taught us it’s time to start paying 40 years of technical debt (3min). #3. If you still use Postman, be aware it was at some point installing Claude plugins and startup hooks. Here are the findings on the official GitHub repo (3min). I just uninstalled it. #4. I’ve never had a portfolio. I joke that my blog is my portfolio. But if…

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