Editorial policy

What earns an article

Something a developer has to know or do. Concretely: a release, a deprecation, a policy change, a new requirement, a deadline, a breaking change, a security issue, or a capability that did not exist before.

Things that do not earn an article, no matter how much traffic they might bring: funding rounds, hiring news, conference marketing, opinion pieces, listicles, and reposts of things announced weeks ago.

Sourcing

• Primary sources are preferred and, for most stories, required — the vendor's own announcement, release notes, changelog or documentation.
• Where several outlets cover one development, they become one article citing all of them, not several near-identical articles.
• Every article carries a Sources list. Primary sources are marked as such.
• If a claim cannot be traced to a source, it does not appear.

Copyright

We do not republish source articles or reproduce substantial portions of them. Sources are read to extract facts; the writing is ours. Quotations are used only where the exact wording matters, kept short, attributed, and linked. If you believe something here crosses that line, tell us and we will fix it.

Updating rather than republishing

When new information affects an article we already published, the preference is to update that article rather than publish a second one about the same thing. Updated articles show an updated date. That date moves only when the content actually changed — never to make an old article look fresh.

Corrections

Errors are corrected on the article itself, with a note saying what changed and when. We do not silently edit and we do not delete an article to make a mistake go away. Every article keeps a full revision history internally.

Our own apps

Ali3N Studios builds apps, and this site sometimes links to them. The rules:

• An app only appears where it is relevant to the article. Relevance has to clear a numeric floor, and a topical overlap alone does not clear it.
• At most one app placement per article.
• Placements are always labelled “From Ali3N Studios”.
• Store links carry campaign parameters so we can measure them. They are marked rel="sponsored".
• No interstitials, no sticky bars, no placements inside the body text.

Nothing on this site is paid placement. We take no money from any vendor mentioned, and no article is written because someone asked for it.

What we will never do

• Invent an author, a byline or a headshot.
• Fabricate a quotation, statistic, date, version or price.
• Publish keyword-stuffed or doorway pages.
• Spin up hundreds of near-empty tag pages to chase long-tail search.
• Publish something we know to be uncertain without saying it is uncertain.

See also: AI disclosure · methodology