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(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" (bsky.app)

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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)

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AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder (blundergoat.com)

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LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding (cyber-omelette.com)

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Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget (jpcaparas.medium.com)

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Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006) (marc.info)

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Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video] (fosdem.org)

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Agents need good developer experience too (modal.com)

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FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways (sluongng.substack.com)

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Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work (writtte.com)

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Agents.md as a Dark Signal (joshmock.com)

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Token Smuggling:How Non-Standard Encoding Bypass AI Security (instatunnel.my)

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Jujutsu v0.38.0 Released (github.com/jj-vcs)

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Agile Coach's Solution: Break Technical Problems into Smaller Stories (agilelie.com)

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(Un)portable defer in C (antonz.org)

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I'm tired of trying to make vibe coding work for me (youtube.com)

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Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated (theregister.com)

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Why AI-Generated Code Will Hurt Both Customers and Companies (beastx.ro)

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Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output (sukr.io)

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Competence as Tragedy (crowprose.com)

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Faster, cheaper, messier: lessons from our switch to self-hosted GitHub Actions (theguardian.engineering)

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Relax for the Same Result (2015) (sive.rs)

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From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface (1password.com)

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I Am Not a Functional Programmer (daniel-beskin.com)

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Ending 15 years of subprocess polling (gmpy.dev)

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Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format and friends (hachyderm.io)

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Easily write Bash with a transpiler [video] (fosdem.org)

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Why Vibe First Development Collapses Under Its Own Freedom (techyall.com)

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Intro to Cstml (Or: XML Meets JSON) (bablr.org)

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Git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI (github.com/git-cola)

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One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)

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The Disconnected Git Workflow (ploum.net)

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The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? (efp.asia)

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Career Ladder Is Rewarding the Wrong Behavior (3squaredcircles.com)

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Supabase Misconfiguration Exposed Moltbook's API Keys; Two SQL Statements Could (telos-ai.org)

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Researchers Find OpenClaw Instances Exposed to the Internet (protean-labs.io)

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Linux's B4 Tool Now Uses AI for Code Review Assistance (phoronix.com)

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We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf] (germantechjobs.de)

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To Every Developer Close to Burnout, Read This · TheSeniorDev (theseniordev.com)

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32-Year-Old Programmer in China Allegedly Dies from Overwork While in Hospital (asiaone.com)

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The State of Garnet, 2026 (alopex.li)

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Real engineering failures instead of success stories (failhub.substack.com)

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The Hardest Bugs Exist Only in Organizational Charts (techyall.com)

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FOSDEM 2026 – Live Streaming (fosdem.org)

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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding – Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)

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Ingress Nginx: Statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Committees (kubernetes.io)

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I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily (conman.org)

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The Dumbest Performance Fix (computergoblin.com)

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The Most Important Code Is the Code No One Owns (techyall.com)

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AI code review prompts initiative making progress for the Linux kernel (phoronix.com)

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State of C++ 2026 (devnewsletter.com)

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Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters (nns.ee)

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Challenge to compress 1M rows to the smallest possible size (github.com/agavra)

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Bootstrap Chain for NixOS: Building the System from a Hand-Auditable Binary Seed (chaos.social)

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AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it (jpcaparas.medium.com)

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You can code only 4 hours per day. Here's why (techworld-with-milan.com)

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The dev who asks too many questions is the one you need in your team (leadthroughmistakes.substack.com)

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Goodhart's Law: When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Loses Its Value (perspectiveship.com)

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TypeScript's Anders Hejlsberg on AI as a "regurgitator" reshaping software (devclass.com)

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It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)

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Agentic Memory Poisoning: How Long-Term AI Context Can Be Weaponized (instatunnel.my)

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Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 (markmcb.com)

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T: A Concise Language for Text Manipulation Replacing Unix Utilities (github.com/alecthomas)

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Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026) (gist.github.com)

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State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates (reddit.com)

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I got 14.84x GPU speedup by studying how octopus arms coordinate (github.com/matthewlam721)

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Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs (arcan-fe.com)

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Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (alilleybrinker.com)

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Clawdbot and Vibe Coding Share a Flaw: Others Decide When You Get Hacked (webmatrices.com)

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AI Generated Tests as Ceremony (ploeh.dk)

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Two empty chairs: why "obvious" decisions keep breaking production (perspectiveship.com)

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In humble defense of the .zip TLD (luke.zip)

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The IndieWeb and Small Web (christiano.dev)

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Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity (pfad.fr)

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Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts? (reddit.com)

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Study: Many Developers Face Ethical Pressure to Ship Products Conflicting With (tandfonline.com)

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Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" Initiative (zerocarbon.email)

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E9p – pure Erlang 9p implementation (tangled.org)

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Tired of Manual Priority Weights in Proxies? I Used a Reverse Radix Tree (getlode.app)

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Agent is building things you'll never use (mahdiyusuf.com)

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Agents need good developer experience too (modal.com)

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Considering Strictly Monotonic Time (matklad.github.io)

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Agents.md as a Dark Signal (joshmock.com)

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GNU C Library 2.43 released with more C23 features, mseal and openat2 functions (phoronix.com)

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Rethinking Helix (boserup.eu)

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The Challenges of Developing for Microsoft SharePoint (medium.com/jordansrowles)

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Curl Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program over AI Slop Overrun (itsfoss.com)

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Malicious PyPI Packages Spellcheckpy and Spellcheckerpy Deliver Python Rat (aikido.dev)

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Why I'm ignoring the "Death of the Programmer" hype (codingismycraft.blog)

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SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)

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Rust 1.93.0 (rust-lang.org)

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So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)

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I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager (terriblesoftware.org)

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An Adversarial Coding Test (runjak.codes)

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Microservices Architecture Fails Due to Poor Product Topology (hyperact.co.uk)

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FSNotes 7 – Remarkable fast plain text notes (fsnot.es)

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A clear visual explanation of what HTTPS protects (howhttps.works)

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FOSS for Digital Sovereignty in the EU (more-magic.net)

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Essay: Performance Reviews in Big Tech: Why "Fair" Systems Still Fail (medium.com/dmitrytrifonov)