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Daniel Miessler Dec 8

The Bubble Is Labor(opens in new tab)

We've forgotten that companies have never wanted to hire anyone in the first place

Sylvain Kerkour Dec 8

Notes on building CRDT-based local-first and end-to-end encrypted applications(opens in new tab)

Local-first vs Offline-first Found this article, from a great series about local-first applications: Local-first is not offline-first. TL;DR: local-first = the source of truth is the local state stored on

Nick Nisi Dec 8

Very Important Agents(opens in new tab)

My recent Changelog and Friends podcast appearance and the Claude Code plugins that help me get real work done with AI.

Annie Mueller Dec 7

All feelings mean something but it might be something dumb(opens in new tab)

“If your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can. — Marcus Aurelius” What we learn as children programs us in certain ways. These programs run subconsciously....

Swyx Dec 7

How To Podcast(opens in new tab)

Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental ...

Cassidy Williams Dec 7

The ABCD framework for feedback(opens in new tab)

This is a short and sweet way to get feedback on your work in a specific, helpful way!

Annie Mueller Dec 6

Dishonesty is a rejection of life(opens in new tab)

Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only...

Cassidy Williams Dec 6

Lasagna and a root beer float(opens in new tab)

What is the food and drink that represents you?

Changelog Dec 5

Very important agents (Changelog & Friends #120)(opens in new tab)

Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they're impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic's acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub's challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. ...

Annie Mueller Dec 5

Fish bowl(opens in new tab)

Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny...

Cassidy Williams Dec 5

Goodbye to an 11-year-old Issue(opens in new tab)

An old feature request on a repo has me in my feelings!

Sean Goedecke Dec 5

AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated(opens in new tab)

Changelog Dec 4

Werner Vogels predicts the future (Changelog Interviews #669)(opens in new tab)

Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the renaissance ...

Zach Leatherman Dec 4

No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows(opens in new tab)

Cassidy Williams Dec 4

The what, how, and why of CSS clamp()(opens in new tab)

The CSS clamp() function is a clean way to make your apps and sites responsive. Here's how!

Terminal Tool of the Week Dec 4

oeis-tui(opens in new tab)

A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).

Brittany Ellich Dec 3

Build the thing you wish to see in the world(opens in new tab)

For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of ...

Sylvain Kerkour Dec 3

How CRDTs and Rust are revolutionizing distributed systems and local-first applications(opens in new tab)

There are, I believe, very few technologies that are like CRDTs, Conflict-free Replicated Data Types: very easy to use, very powerful and yet not much known, so we don't see

jsx.lol Dec 3

Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components(opens in new tab)

“On November 29th, Lachlan Davidson reported a security vulnerability in React that allows unauthenticated remote code execution [...] This vulnerability was disclosed as CVE-2025-55182 and is rated CVSS 10.0.”

Daniel Miessler Dec 2

Autonomous Cars or No? Stunning Data on Autonomous Car Safety Benefits(opens in new tab)

Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, a neurosurgeon and co-founder of Scrub Capital, published an excellent piece in the NYThttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html today about autonomous car safety. DANIEL: Opening commentary here The human cost When that much energy enters a skull, n...

Cassidy Williams Dec 2

Change commit timestamps in Git(opens in new tab)

Sometimes you might need to change when a commit happened. Here's how!

Changelog Dec 1

What actually makes you senior (Changelog News #172)(opens in new tab)

Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there's no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD ...

Cassidy Williams Dec 1

Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions(opens in new tab)

Sometimes things get old and unmaintained. Don't we all? But we can fix that in your projects!

PythonBytes Dec 1

#460: Overlooked Python Typing(opens in new tab)

Topics covered in this episode: Advent of Code starts today Django 6 is coming Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing codespell Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/460

Blake Watson Nov 30

I ranted about frontend build steps at MagnoliaConf 2025(opens in new tab)

Bryan Hogan Nov 30

Thank you for joining my e-mail newsletter(opens in new tab)

Thank you for joining my e-mail newsletter. Why I'm grateful to have you here.

Cassidy Williams Nov 30

A pretty good email scam(opens in new tab)

How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings

David Rupert Nov 29

One thing churches do well(opens in new tab)

Two friends of mine (brothers, actually) got laid off from their job at a megachurch here in Austin. We met through a mutual friend that started attending their church. Our kids hang out on Roblox, so we’re connected through dadship ...

Changelog Nov 28

The 4 DIMM problem (Changelog & Friends #119)(opens in new tab)

Our old friend Lars Wikman returns to the show to discuss Linux distro hopping, Elixir, Nerves, embedded systems, home automation with Home Assistant, karate, and more.

Corey Quinn Nov 27

AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways(opens in new tab)

After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier. The post AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways appeared first on ...

Changelog Nov 26

The inner workings of Wikipedia (Changelog Interviews #668)(opens in new tab)

Let's hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this "8th wonder of the modern world" for two decades and even built a career on it, founding Beutler Ink –a digital agency ...

jsx.lol Nov 26

Why use React?(opens in new tab)

“By default, you get the dreaded hydration pattern—do all the computing on the server in JavaScript (yay!), serve up HTML straight away (yay! yay!) …and then serve up all the same JavaScript that’s on the server anyway (ya—wait, what?).”

Production-Grade Container Orchestration Nov 26

Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek(opens in new tab)

As the release of Kubernetes v1.35 approaches, the Kubernetes project continues to evolve. Features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced to improve the project's overall health. This blog post outlines planned changes for the v1.35 release that the release team ...

Terminal Tool of the Week Nov 26

kyanos(opens in new tab)

A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool.

Sean Goedecke Nov 26

Becoming unblockable(opens in new tab)

David Heinemeier Hansson Nov 25

Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need(opens in new tab)