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The 2026 IP2Location Programming Contest winners are out, and geotop took first prize. The award is USD $500 plus a two-year IP2Location.io Security Plan; the winners page values the whole package at USD $12,476. Second and third went to geotail and LocaSentinel. The short version is easy: geotop won. This is the longer one. I went back through both repositories — 34 commits in geotop, one in GeoSentinel-Ingress — and reconstructed what actually happened between 3 and 9 August 2026: what was deliberate, what was discovered by breaking a release, and what I would change before the next tag. ...

Green build, slow pages. That combination has annoyed me for years: Playwright happily reports 136/136 passing while the browser quietly burns 90% of one core on a badly-behaved tab, or the whole runner sits at 99% memory and everything gets suspiciously slow. Test outcomes say nothing about how much resource the tests consumed. Resource waste in CI is exactly the kind of thing you want to fail loudly, not discover from user complaints later. ...