HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True. - HP’s innovation was never the result of formal policies like “20% time” but grew from a culture of deep trust, personal investment, and unrestricted access to resources, supported by hands-on leadership. Confusing correlation for causation led companies like Google to copy it while the real engine of creativity - relationships, freedom, and genuine support - was forgotten, proving that sustainable innovation cannot be mandated but must be cultivated through culture.
The Junior Developer Extinction: We’re All Building the Next Programming Dark Age and how will we have senior developers in 20 years… if we replace today’s young people with AI? and hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry
The Programmer Identity Crisis - On AI, Creativity, and Craft - AI is causing profound shifts in software development, challenging what it means to be a programmer and raising critical questions about creativity, craftsmanship, and the future of coding.
How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain - How Claude Code can go beyond coding assistance to become a thinking partner - helping you organize research, explore ideas, and seamlessly pick up complex projects.
What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? - For the author, Apple, once renowned for its legendary attention to detail, has seen a significant decline in user experience quality, design consistency, and accessibility over recent years, with many UI bugs and incoherent design choices reflecting a loss of cohesive design focus. Take a look at Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26, a take on how “iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight”
News
- Bun 1.3
- Node.js 25
- React 19.2
- shadcn Forms and Item new components
- shadcn Registry Directory - “Discover community registries for shadcn/ui components and blocks”
- React Compiler v1.0
Frameworks
- The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3 - On this part 3 : which tools do software engineers use for observability, oncall tooling, feature flags, frontend & mobile work, and for developer tooling?
- Amazon introduces Vega OS, based on react native
- Why developers are leaving Next.js for TanStack Start, and loving it
Best practices
- Scripts I wrote that I use all the time - A list of the favorites shell scripts of the author
- The Code Review That Actually Taught Me Something - What makes a good code review ?
- The price of mandatory code reviews - Skipping mandatory code reviews boosts productivity but significantly increases bugs—so selective, high-quality, and fast reviews deliver the best balance between speed and code health.
- How we test a web framework
- When ‘perfect’ code fails - “When too much magic in the codebase breaks security measures, you know something is way off.”
- Solved by Modern CSS : Section Layout
- 15 Recent Node.js Features that Replace Popular npm Packages
- Styling Markdown
Postmortem & analysis
- What caused the large AWS outage? - The 14 hours AWS outage impacted a lot of businesses. An analysis of the postmortem published by AWS.
- How I Almost Got Hacked By A ‘Job Interview’
- The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
- Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification for Python
Inspiration
- Chief Bookmark Officer
- The Accountability Problem - Redefining software accountability with strategic “product bets” can transform an engineering team into a true business driver - shifting the conversation from features and deadlines to real, measurable impact.
- Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix - How tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Netflix scale their engineering teams through structured goals, code quality, and a purposeful culture -essential lessons for any growing tech company.
- The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
Databases
- Build Your Own Database - A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
- Kafka is fast – I’ll use Postgres - Another take to the “Just use Postgres for everything”
Advanced techniques
- Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix
- Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb
Architecture
- Modulith Architecture: Scaling Simplicity in Complex Systems
- How We Saved $500,000 Per Year by Rolling Our Own “S3”
- Dealing with Race Conditions in Event-Driven Architecture with Read Models
Security
- Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen’s passport and PII through FIA bugs
- CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
- Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
- Cookie Chaos: How to bypass
__Hostand__Securecookie prefixes - Credential Stuffing
- Startup Security: Ratios and a 24-Month Hiring Plan - Practical, research-backed security staffing ratios and a detailed 24-month hiring plan to help startup scale securely without burning out their team.
IA
News
- Introducing Agent Skills
- Mistral studio
- Claude
- ChatGPT atlas
- Sora 2 est disponible
- Minimam model
- Linear Github Copilot Agent - “Delegate any issue directly or mention GitHub Copilot in a comment, and the agent will use the full issue context to start an implementation in a draft PR.”
Best practices and usage
- GitHub Copilot Best Practices & Spec-Driven Development
- Introducing Agent Skills - “”, take a look at Skill seekers to “convert documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and PDFs into Claude AI skills”
- Claude Code is a Beast – Tips from 6 Months of Hardcore Use
- Living dangerously with Claude - A post productivity benefits and significant security risks of using Claude Code in “YOLO mode” which allows the coding agent to operate autonomously without frequent human approval. It exposes users to serious vulnerabilities like prompt injection attacks making it mandatory to run agents in sandboxed, controlled environments
- Effective context engineering for AI agents
How it works
- What Actually Happens When You Press ‘Send’ to ChatGPT
- Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
- Anthropic’s Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial
- Why Anthropic’s MCP is a Big Deal
- Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform
AI Security: On prompt injection
- The Tech Away | Issue #11 | Spécial Prompt Injection
- First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That’s Stealing Your Emails
By Octo
- Cup Of Dev - L’accessibilité dans le WEB - Gauthier Fiorentino, Benjamin Datiche et Marianne Bost
- The Tech Away | Issue #11 | Spécial Prompt Injection - Mehdi Houacine, Sofia Calcagno
- Hors série : retours vers la transfo #1 - L’audit qui n’en était pas un.
- Une gestion d’incidents méthodique : transformer chaque dysfonctionnement en opportunité pour améliorer son système - Simon LEFORT
- Mettre en place un assistant de code souverain - Alain Faure
- Entre pixels et réalité : pourquoi et comment alléger simplement nos images du quotidien - Pierrick Crepy, Yaelle Marsiac
Tools
- MarkItDown - “Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.”
- Open notebook - “A private, multi-model, 100% local, full-featured alternative to Notebook LM”
- Mole - clean your mac
- Just sketch me - “Give depth to your characters with the best pose reference tool on the web.”
- Schadcn theme