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A Diary of a Data Engineer (14 minute read)
The core essence and challenges of data engineering remain unchanged despite decades of tool evolution from early ETL/SSIS in the 2000s, through Hadoop/big data hype, to modern stacks like dbt, Iceberg, and AI agents in 2026. Key insights include the eternal loop ("The tools change. The loop doesn't."), the lost art of proper data modeling, treating schema issues as people problems, and focusing on fundamentals over trends.
Junior Developers in the Age of AI (8 minute read)
One of the most compelling reasons to hire junior employees is the advancement of AI technology. Historically, the main obstacle to AI transformation has been getting existing staff to fully embrace it. Generation Z is at the forefront of AI adoption, acting as a catalyst by aiding their coworkers in understanding AI tools and processes. AI has also reduced the cost of training new employees. Hiring junior staff could be one of the most effective ways to leverage AI technology, especially if the necessary infrastructure is already in place.

RedTeam-Tools (GitHub Repo)
This GitHub repository hosts over 150 tools and resources curated for red teaming activities. While some tools are tailored specifically for red teaming, others have a more general-purpose and can be modified for red teaming purposes.
Deep Search Agents (GitHub Repo)
CaRR enhances reinforcement learning for deep search agents by substituting binary rewards with feedback based on citations.
Data

I tested 14 analytics agents - so you don't have to (15 minute read)

Why 90% Accuracy in Text-to-SQL is 100% Useless (9 minute read)

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 3 and Segment Anything Playground (9 minute read)

Zero-Trust Data Access for AI Training: New Architecture Patterns for Cloud and On-Prem Workloads (6 minute read)

Semantic Operators Meet Dataframes: Building Context for Agents with FENIC (56 minute podcast)

Building a Containerized ML Inference Service with Automated CI/CD (2 minute read)
RAG with Access Control (7 minute read)

The Journey to Zero-Copy: How chDB Became the Fastest SQL Engine on Pandas DataFrame (11 minute read)

LLM Predictions for 2026, Shared with Oxide and Friends (5 minute read)
Tech

Gas Town Decoded (3 minute read)

Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription (3 minute read)

2026: This is AGI (10 minute read)

When Will They Take Our Jobs? (12 minute read)

Scaling long-running autonomous coding (6 minute read)

Anthropic is making a huge mistake (1 minute read)

Jony Ive and Sam Altman's First AI Gadget May Try to Kill AirPods (3 minute read)

How to write a good spec for AI agents (49 minute read)

Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” (5 minute read)

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent (8 minute read)

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (4 minute read)

The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? (37 minute read)

CES 2026 – “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” #CES2026 (64 minute read)

When Google Locked the Door, Three MIT Students Picked the Lock (11 minute read)
AI

Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap (16 minute read)

18 Predictions for 2026 (48 minute read)
Introducing Anthropic Labs (2 minute read)

Claude Agent SDK Technical Specification (22 minute read)

Google upgrades Veo 3.1 with Ingredients and 4K upscaling (2 minute read)

Google tests Gemini Auto Browse tool for Chrome users (1 minute read)

Apple's new Google Gemini deal sounds bigger, better than expected (4 minute read)

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? (12 minute read)

Best Practices for Coding with Agents (18 minute read)

Agent design patterns (12 minute read)

The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? (32 minute read)
Dev

How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? (8 minute read)

React has finally solved its biggest problem: The joys of useEffectEvent (8 minute read)
OpenCode vs Claude Code (8 minute read)

Making AI great at frontend (3 minute read)
Swark (GitHub Repo)

Why We Built Our Own Background Agent (15 minute read)
Nogic (Website)
No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (9 minute read)

Work Expands. Time Vanishes. Here's Why (4 minute read)

How to Steal Any React Component (6 minute read)

How to build agents with filesystems and bash (3 minute read)

The Great Filter (Or Why High Performance Still Eludes Most Dev Teams, Even With AI) (7 minute read)

How Markdown took over the world (24 minute read)
Ferrite (GitHub Repo)
Infosec

OID-See: Giving Your OAuth Apps the Side-Eye (26 minute read)

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam (3 minute read)

Target's Dev Server Offline After Hackers Claim to Steal Source Code (2 minute read)

Everest Ransomware Claims Breach at Nissan, Says 900GB of Data Stolen (2 minute read)

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day (1 minute read)
Pwning Claude Code in 8 Different Ways (9 minute read)

AWS Privilege Escalation: IAM Risks, Service-Based Attacks, and New AI-Driven Bedrock/AgentCore Vectors (22 minute read)

Trend Micro fixed a remote code execution in Apex Central (2 minute read)

Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts (2 minute read)

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines (4 minute read)

Two CVEs, Zero Ego: A Mailpit Story (4 minute read)
DevOps

Platform engineering maturity in 2026: What the data tells us (7 minute read)

Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security (2 minute read)
Fresh (GitHub Repo)

Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages (4 minute read)

Speeding up Pulumi Operations by up to 20x (8 minute read)

A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images (5 minute read)

The hidden cost of PostgreSQL arrays (12 minute read)

DrP: Meta's Root Cause Analysis Platform at Scale (6 minute read)
WeKnora (GitHub Repo)

Building trust in agentic tools: What we learned from our users (6 minute read)
ConvertX (GitHub Repo)

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail (6 minute read)

The coolest feature in Python 3.14 (3 minute read)
Design

Figma for Jira Update (1 minute read)

Top 10 Web3 UX Design Trends to Follow in 2026 (4 minute read)
Beautiful UI Components for AI Tool Calls (Website)

Typography Exercises that Help Students Train Their Eye (4 minute read)

Breaking Out of the Industry Box: Designers' Skills Work Anywhere (4 minute read)

You're not in exile, you're on the forefront of a change (1 minute read)

Adobe Firefly gets GPT-Image 1.5 support and temporary unlimited image generation (2 minute read)

AI Images and Videos in One Place (Website)

Peligoni's new identity is making me dream of holidays (4 minute read)

Walkers gets biggest logo change in 80 years (and I'm on board) (3 minute read)

Text to Video and Image to Video (Website)

Penpot is Experimenting with MCP Servers for AI-Powered Design Workflows (6 minute read)

The Formula that Changed How I Think About Design (2 minute read)

Tailwind Labs Lays Off 75 Percent of its Engineers Thanks to ‘Brutal Impact' of AI (3 minute read)

AI Design Field Guide (Website)
Founders

LLMs vs. Marketplaces (16 minute read)

How I actually get good advice (8 minute read)

Growth Is Now a Trust Problem (8 minute read)

The physical AI deployment gap (12 minute read)

Cowork (Tool)

Cost of building an MVP (with AI) (7 minute read)

What Does It Take to IPO? (10 minute read)

Atoms (Tool)

a16z raised $15B (3 minute read)

The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? (20 minute read)
Sales problems vs. product-market fit problems (6 minute read)
Marketing

Apple turns to Google to power AI upgrade for Siri (2 minute read)
How to prove impact from lifecycle marketing (2 minute read)

Zumba's revenue growth from app2web flows (5 minute read)

How simple semantics increased our AI citations by 642% (5 minute read)
Bifurcation of the US economy hits the shopping mall (2 minute read)

Is It Time to Kill All the Mascots? (2 minute read)
Vibe coding tip: Fine-tune an LLM on your LinkedIn posts with Claude Code (1 minute read)
Find bot clicks in your emails (1 minute read)

How rising retail brands use influencers to combat digital overload (3 minute read)

7 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch For in 2026 (8 minute read)

Google: Don't make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank (3 minute read)
Free n8n Course (59 minute video)
Crypto

BNY Mellon's Tokenized Cash: Custodial Path to Tokenized Collateral (2 minute read)

YC-backed Kontigo Violates Venezuela Sanctions (5 minute read)

Crypto YouTube Viewership Hits Lowest Since January 2021 (1 minute read)

Non-USD Stablecoins and Equity/RWA Perps (1 minute read)

Eric Adams NYC Token Crashes 60% Amid Liquidity Concerns (3 minute read)

Vitalik Buterin Warns Decentralized Stablecoins Still Have Deep Flaws (3 minute read)

88 Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Launched in 2025 (1 minute read)

Ethereum Exit Queue Drops to Zero as Staking Demand Re-Accelerates (1 minute read)

Ethereum Widens Stablecoin Lead as Solana Loses Ground (1 minute read)

Payment Tokenization Isn't One-Size-Fits-All (2 minute read)
Product

How OpenAI Builds Amazing Products (16 minute read)

Strategy in four worlds (6 minute read)

How I actually get good advice (5 minute read)

The Ceiling Is Far Higher Than You Think (2 minute read)

What hospital triage can teach us about planning (4 minute read)

Why Most Product Teams Aren't Really Empowered (7 minute read)

Building apps for an existing audience (4 minute read)

Prioritize Relatively (2 minute read)

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen (5 minute read)
Fintech

Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents (5 minute read)

Why capping credit card APRs could quietly kill rewards and shrink access (4 minute read)

Microsoft pushes retail into the agentic era with AI-powered commerce and operations (4 minute read)

Wealth tax meets super-voting shares: Tech founders warn of unintended fallout (3 minute read)

Stripe opens the door to crypto-funded checkout with Crypto.com partnership (3 minute read)

Global fintech funding surges 21% in 2025, according to new Innovate Finance report (2 minute read)