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I keep coming back to this group because every author shows their work in unusual detail. I Ported Kubernetes to the Browser: Sam Rose generated almost 100,000 lines of TypeScript with LLMs to build webernetes,… Read more: AI Agents & Systems Engineering: 7 Bookmarks Worth Your Attention

Should You Leave Red Herrings About Yourself Online?: For most people, scattering fake biographical details online is a weak way to confuse data brokers. Brokers merge public records that cannot be fictionalized, ten planted lies… Read more: On Privacy, Design & Career: 4 Essays

A short one to close out the technical picks: two tools for your daily setup and one piece of theory worth internalizing about load balancing. The Oh My Posh Visual Configurator is a drag-and-drop builder… Read more: Today’s recommendations: A visual builder for your shell prompt, a coding font tester, and the counterintuitive economics of load balancing

Five essays that all circle a similar question from different angles: what happens to your own thinking when you outsource the hard, effortful part of it. Starting in the Analog Domain: Stoyan Stefanov sees the… Read more: On Writing, Craft & Thinking Clearly: 5 Essays

A cluster about the content web: building it, generating it, and making it legible to crawlers and models, starting with a roundup of minimal WordPress themes. Speckyboy’s 20+ Best Free Minimal WordPress Themes is exactly… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Minimal WordPress themes, whether block themes were made for AI, ChatGPT as a page builder, JSON-LD for personal sites, and a dashboard-scaffolding CLI

The essays in this pair are smaller in scope than the last group, but they hit close to home if you build things for a living. The Slow Death of the Power User: This essay… Read more: On Power, Attention & Building What’s Actually Yours

The agent-tooling layer is maturing fast, and this cluster is the practical end of it: multi-agent coding without worktree chaos, hosting, and skills you can drop into Claude Code today. David Wells’ Multi-Agent Coding Without… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Multi-agent coding without worktrees, a tmux for agents, two LLMs on one Spark, and two Agent Skills worth stealing

Three essays about the same underlying question, approached from very different angles: who controls the infrastructure we depend on, and what happens when nobody’s watching closely enough. Now We’re Getting AI Fake News Complaining About… Read more: Trust, Ownership & the Open Web: 3 Essays on What We’re Losing

The CSS platform keeps handing us toys, and this batch is mostly about using the newest ones well, starting with View Transitions pushed past the spec. Bramus Van Damme’s Cranking View Transitions Up to 11… Read more: Today’s recommendations: View Transitions pushed past the spec, modern CSS theming, sizing selects to their content, UI experiments, and a shadcn SaaS template

A closing batch about where the work, and the money, is heading, from the codebase out to the economy, including whether small software businesses survive AI. Addy Osmani’s The New Software Lifecycle pulls the ideas… Read more: Today’s recommendations: An agent is a model plus a harness, the coming loop, whether small software businesses survive AI, and why good money still feels like a treadmill

The Laravel package ecosystem keeps shipping, and this cluster spans an audit trail, a monitoring dashboard, an architecture pattern, and two takes on Filament. Yammi Audit Log solves the audit problem most packages fumble: attribution… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Audit logs that survive queue hops, a queue/schedule dashboard, typed Eloquent objects, and Filament that an AI agent can drive

Three essays that circle the same truth from different angles: good engineering is mostly about restraint, about respecting the limits of the person doing it, and about why duplication beats the wrong abstraction. Matt Williams’… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Engineering for a four-slot mind, why duplication beats the wrong abstraction, and knowing what not to build

A performance-heavy Laravel batch, and the honest kind: as much about what didn’t work as what did, including a Laravel Octane experiment that got measured and reverted. Jason McCreary’s Fast Laravel Case Study is a… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Caching Laravel News with Cloudflare, when Octane isn’t worth it, 12 fixes that saved a server, and a leaner ECS config

A batch about writing well and about writing at all, plus a righteous rant that connects the two, starting with how to write an effective design doc. Michael Lynch’s How to Write an Effective Software… Read more: Today’s recommendations: Writing an effective design doc, winnowing sentences, naming the modal-popup scourge, and why blogging the obvious is worth it

A grab-bag that’s really about one theme: the shape of the work is changing. Session security is getting cryptographic with DBSC, CI is buckling under agents, and the tools we drive are learning to drive… Read more: Today’s recommendations: DBSC, Merge Queues & Agent Coding: Where Dev Is Heading