Universal bundle analyzer for ALL modern bundlers - the tool we've been waiting for! https://github.com/filipsobol/sonda

Auto-captures Claude sessions and injects relevant context - meta tooling for AI development! https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

Rust-powered email verification without sending emails - production-ready and blazing fast! https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists

The arms race for milliseconds - true winners optimize for users, not just devs! https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2025/12/16/javascript-bundler-grand-prix/

The annual pulse check on developers - StackOverflow's definitive 2025 report! https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

56.4% on SWE-bench Pro - the autonomous engineer has arrived! OpenAI's most advanced agentic coding model. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/

AI is changing the economics of hiring juniors - Kent Beck on the new profitable path! https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-juniors-just-got-better

The reality check enterprises needed - overfetching wasn't the real problem, operational complexity is! https://johnjames.blog/posts/graphql-the-enterprise-honeymoon-is-over

Ideas aren't scarce - it's commercialization that's broken! Challenges the innovation scarcity narrative. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/ideas-arent-getting-harder-to-find

Progressive disclosure architecture for modular AI capabilities - transforms LLMs into domain-specialized agents! https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/10/26/claude-skills-deep-dive/

The build-vs-buy calculus is dead - AI agents are fundamentally restructuring software economics! https://martinalderson.com/posts/ai-agents-are-starting-to-eat-saas/

The AI development paradox explained - why faster coding leads to slower shipping! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXHScf1mjA

Semantically grep everything - code, images, PDFs, and more with AI-powered search! https://github.com/mixedbread-ai/mgrep

Free shadcn form builder plus UI components - indie devs rejoice! https://github.com/Ali-Hussein-dev/indie-ui

Build your own vibe-coding platform on Cloudflare's stack - open source and powerful! https://github.com/cloudflare/vibesdk

Automated upgrades for npm packages and frameworks - keep your projects modern! https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/jsts-modernizer-preview

Session-based auth is here - classic tokens are done, time to update your workflows! https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-09-npm-classic-tokens-revoked-session-based-auth-and-cli-token-management-now-available/

Single-file HTML apps with HTML+JS+CSS - Simon Willison's lightweight magic! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/

Engineering excellence through automated processes - the mechanical advantage! https://matklad.github.io/2025/12/06/mechanical-habits.html

The provocative counter to 10x engineers - slowing down might be speeding up! https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-12-08-01x-engineer/

Dodging Shai-Hulud 2.0 - essential lessons for protecting your npm supply chain! https://pnpm.io/blog/2025/12/05/newsroom-npm-supply-chain-security

Agentic coding is transforming software economics and the entire industry! https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/

The new bottleneck in AI development isn't writing code anymore - it's reviewing it! https://www.raf.xyz/blog/03-how-i-keep-up-with-ai-generated-prs

One npx command extracts any site's design tokens - logo, colors, typography, the works! https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt

1.2M writes/sec on consumer hardware - the Rust-powered Kafka alternative beating benchmarks! https://github.com/nubskr/walrus

Auto-closes broken markdown mid-stream - essential for AI-powered content generation! https://www.npmjs.com/package/remend

See everything your browser reveals automatically - eye-opening privacy check that runs locally! https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault

Everything that changed in web performance this year - the comprehensive recap you need! https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance

TypeScript 7 goes native with Go - 10x faster compilation and the VS Code extension is ready to try! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/

TypeScript 7 goes native with Go - 10x faster compilation and the VS Code extension is ready to try! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/

Rolldown replaces esbuild+Rollup for up to 30x faster builds - the Rust revolution continues! https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8-beta

CVE-2025-55182 with CVSS 10.0 - patch your RSC apps NOW or risk unauthenticated RCE! https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components

The AWS CTO's crystal ball for 2026 - when Werner Vogels speaks, tech listens! https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html

Reducing ambiguity is the secret sauce - everything else flows from that! https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior

The definitive guide to instructing your AI agents - applies to AGENTS.md, Cursor, Codex and more! https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

Career gold from Google's Addy Osmani - on code, careers, and the human side of engineering! https://addyo.substack.com/p/21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google

Local-first made easy - CRDTs, offline-first, and real-time sync without the complexity! https://github.com/Dancode-188/synckit

Vim mode meets agentic AI in a lightweight editor - the Cursor alternative that's actually open source! https://athas.dev/

I see some pong implementations in my timeline, so I did my very own during the weekend :D choose between 2/4/9 balls and play! Here you go: pong.u11g.com

Watch your Git history like a movie - typing animations, syntax highlighting, and pure terminal cinema! https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue

Node-based visual programming for React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte - build your own Blender nodes in the browser! https://github.com/retejs/rete/

Matteo Collina fixes Next.js scaling on K8s - 93% faster with distributed caching done right! https://blog.platformatic.dev/93-faster-nextjs-in-your-kubernetes

Aggregate first, join later - PG19's query planner gets smarter and your analytics get faster! https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fast-aggregations-in-postgresql-19/

Short-lived, scoped tokens for CI publishing - the security pattern that limits blast radius! https://byk.im/posts/releasing-packages/

The cautionary tale we needed - when vibe coding meets production reality, teams pay the price! https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-11-26-a-vibe-coded-saas-killed-my-team.html

Prerender your next page and watch navigation times drop below 100ms - the browser API that makes e-commerce feel native! https://blog.sentry.io/less-than-100ms-e-commerce-instant-loads-with-speculation-rules-api

Nested grids finally talk to each other - card layouts will never be the same! https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/

S-tier: transform and opacity. F-tier: animating width. The performance cheat sheet every frontend dev needs! https://motion.dev/blog/web-animation-performance-tier-list

80.9% on SWE-bench and a new "effort" dial for throughput vs. depth - the model that lets you control your own reasoning budget! https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

6000 tests, 970 files, one week - this is how you actually use AI for legacy code! https://eliocapella.com/blog/ai-library-migration-guide/