2025 recap, and the year to come
- The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 → ranks the blogs that dominated HN front page last year.
- Octo Pulse - Tech Trends 2026 → Octo’s annual forecast of major tech trends for the year ahead.
- Databases in 2025: A Year in Review → Andy Pavlo’s deep retrospective on database innovations and shifts.
Building with AI
- Building Inkwell with BMAD Method: A Greenfield Development Story → Discover how I create an app with the BMAD Method.
- BMAD Method : comment révolutionner le développement avec l’IA agentique ? → introduces the BMAD methodology for agentic AI-driven development workflows.
- Oh My OpenCode → The specialized orchestration layer for OpenCode. Batteries-included agents, hooks, and workflows that understand your build pipeline.
- You’re Using Ralph Wiggum Loops WRONG → common pitfalls and anti-patterns when using autonomous agent loops.
- Ship working code while you sleep with the Ralph Wiggum technique → how to set up overnight autonomous coding sessions effectively.
AI Ecosystem & Skills
- skills.sh → marketplace for discovering and sharing AI agent skills.
- context7 skills → Context7’s curated skill library for coding agents.
- Awesome claude skills → community-maintained list of Claude skills and extensions.
- React Best Practices skills → Vercel’s guide to React best practices for AI-assisted development. Github repository.
- Expo skills → a collection of AI agent skills for working with Expo projects and Expo Application Services.
AI & People & Process
- The Idiot Factory → how over-reliance on AI might deskill developers.
- The human in the loop → why human oversight remains critical in AI-assisted workflows.
- Am i cooked as a junior dev? → a junior’s honest reflection on career prospects in the AI era.
- L’IA introduit-elle une rupture dans les modèles d’affaires des ESN ? → explores how AI disrupts consulting firm business models.
- The 19 agent trap → warns against over-engineering with too many specialized agents.
- Le développement logiciel à l’ère des agents IA → overview of how AI agents reshape software development practices.
- Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead” → Gergely Orosz on the implications of AI-generated code becoming dominant.
AI
- Advent of Claude: 31 Days of Claude Code → daily Claude coding challenges and solutions throughout December.
- Opus 4.5 is going to change everything → bold predictions about Claude Opus 4.5’s impact on developer workflows.
- Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter → exposes how Grok is being weaponized to create non-consensual deepfakes.
- tldraw is closing pull requests from external contributors → because of a significant increase in contributions generated entirely by AI tools.
- Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive → thorough technical breakdown of how Claude skills work under the hood.
Second brain
- Agent skills for Obsidian → official skills to integrate Claude agents with Obsidian vaults.
- How To 10x Your Notes: Obsidian + Claude AI Agents → video tutorial on supercharging note-taking with AI agents.
- Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain → using Claude Code as a persistent knowledge management system.
Web
- Choisir le bon framework, la bonne librairie JavaScript : un guide pratique pour chaque type de projet → decision guide for picking the right JS framework based on project type.
- Building a toast component → step-by-step walkthrough of creating an accessible, animated toast notification.
Craft, Architecture & Human Skills
- My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight → reflections on evolving CTO responsibilities as a startup matures.
- You can’t design software you don’t work on → argues hands-on coding is essential for making sound architecture decisions.
- The Decision Triangle: a simple way to improve decision making → a mental model balancing speed, quality, and reversibility in decisions.
- Comment les jeux vidéo nous apprennent à onboarder nos utilisateurs ? → lessons from game design for smoother user onboarding.
- Redis 101 : From a Beginners POV → beginner-friendly introduction to Redis fundamentals.
Learning From the Field
- Pokémon team optimization → how to use operations research methods (Mixed-Integer Programming) to optimize Pokémon team composition using Python’s PuLP library.
Tooling & Ecosystem
- Bruno v3 → major release of the open-source API client with offline-first Git integration.
- Web check → all-in-one tool to analyze any website’s security, performance, and configuration.
- Codex bar → menu bar app for quick access to code snippets and developer tools.
- Check if email exists → check if an email address exists without sending any email.
- dotagents → one location for all of your hooks, commands, skills, and AGENT/CLAUDE.md files.
Security
- Protégez vos clés SSH avec Touch ID sur macOS → guide to securing SSH keys with Apple’s Secure Enclave and Touch ID.
- I Almost Lost My Apple Account to the Most Sophisticated Phishing Attack I’ve Ever Seen → first-hand account of a near-miss advanced phishing attempt.
- Hack of AWS JavaScript SDK → security incident involving compromised AWS SDK packages.
- Quand la France invente le “data leak as a service” → roundup of major French data breaches in 2025.
Funny
- Creepylink → The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.