Hi friends,

Greetings from the hive!

I started taking creatine and hitting the gym consistently, and the momentum I forgot existed came roaring back. It's the compound effect: small things done daily create a force of nature.

This principle hit me with my coding setup too. I switched from Cursor to Claude / Open Code. While I'll miss Cursor's visual git diff (accept / reject), Claude's terminal-first flow keeps me focused without context-switching overhead.

Everyone seeks a 10x hack or magic bullet. Instead, find the 1-2 things that grease the wheels, letting you stack wins day after day.

That's the real flywheel. Everything else is just noise.

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • AI pioneer Andrew Ng shares practical strategies for accelerating development workflows using artificial intelligence tools. He demonstrates how teams can leverage AI to build products faster while maintaining quality and reducing traditional development bottlenecks. MORE

  • Casey Muratori's talk "The Big Oops" explores a 35-year mistake in software architecture: the adoption of object-oriented programming (OOP) hierarchies that rigidly mirror domain models. MORE

  • Mathias shares practical archive testing methods to find security vulnerabilities in compressed files and extraction processes. Learn hands-on techniques for discovering flaws that attackers exploit in file compression systems. MORE

  • A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem. The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognizeβ€”and we may not like what we become without it. MORE

  • Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) is joined by guest "The Primeagen" (Michael), a developer and content creator. The conversation delves into Prime's personal history with burnout, addiction, and finding purpose, followed by Dr. K's analysis and framework for understanding and overcoming burnout. MORE

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πŸ“° Updates

  • Delta is using AI to set personalized ticket prices for individual passengers, moving away from standard fares to maximize profits. The airline plans to expand this "surveillance pricing" from 3% to 20% of tickets by year-end, raising concerns about price discrimination. MORE

  • The 2025 Pwnie Awards nominations, recognizing the year's most notable security research, epic fails, and industry achievements. This annual ceremony celebrates both groundbreaking discoveries and spectacular security blunders in the cybersecurity community. MORE

  • Reddit now requires UK users to verify they're 18+ using government ID or selfies to view adult content, complying with the Online Safety Act. The platform uses third-party service Persona for verification while promising not to store user photos or personal data. MORE

  • Astronomer, from you know what, hired Gwyneth Paltrow (Coldplay singer Chris Martin's ex-wife) for PR/marketing role, sparking viral reactions. Users are calling it "brilliant" PR and joking it would make the company an "all time meme stock" if it were publicly traded.

  • Cursor launched Bugbot, a $40/month AI tool that automatically spots coding errors when developers push changes to GitHub. The debugging assistant is designed to catch mistakes from both human programmers and AI coding agents, as up to 40% of professional code is now AI-generated. MORE

πŸ’Ό Work

πŸ’° Career

  • Cate explains how successful people increase their "luck" by experimenting more and meeting new people regularly. She shares practical tactics like hosting events, writing online, and approaching every interaction with genuine curiosity to build networks that create unexpected opportunities. MORE

  • HIRING: TrustedSec is hiring a remote Cloud Pentester to hack Kubernetes clusters and find security flaws in cloud environments. The role pays $100k-$160k and requires 2-4 years of K8s/cloud experience, with pentesting skills preferred but not mandatory. MORE

πŸš€ Productivity

  • In our hyper-connected world of constant notifications and information overload, Lawrence Yeo explores how to develop genuine independent thinking rather than just echoing popular opinions. He shares practical strategies for creating mental space, questioning assumptions, and building the confidence to form your own views despite social pressure. MORE

  • Simple Raycast script that displays current Spotify song info on-demand without interrupting workflow or switching apps. The AppleScript solution shows track and artist details inline within Raycast's command bar whenever you need it. MORE

🌎 Community

  • Akita celebrates turning 45 by sharing his inspiring journey of starting hacking at 37 and healing deep trauma at 45. It's never too late to follow your dreams and rewrite your story! MORE

  • Scott Tolinski from Syntax.fm shared how he turned down a dream job filming famous guitarists in Manhattan to stay in Michigan while his girlfriend finished her PhD. He took $10/hour jobs as a projectionist before landing his first dev role, calling the sacrifice "totally worth it" for love and career. MORE

  • Vortex announced his departure from Bugcrowd after years of working in triage management and pentesting, earning heartfelt thanks from colleagues and the hacker community. MORE

πŸ„ Level up

πŸ“° Read

  • Why reliability is hard at scale: learnings from infrastructure outages. What are the lessons of large outages at Heroku, Google Cloud, and Neon? Plus, how responses to outages can be as informative as incidents themselves. MORE

  • Salvatore (Redis creator) shares how frontier LLMs like Gemini 2.5 PRO and Claude Opus 4 have transformed his coding workflow over the past 18 months. He advocates staying in the loop rather than using autonomous agents, emphasizing that human+LLM collaboration produces higher quality code than either working alone. MORE

  • Who's SHA is it Anyway: Bypassing Google Cloud Build Comment Control for $30,000. MORE

  • CyberArk researchers discovered two methods to bypass Chrome's new AppBound Cookie Encryption, including a "C4 Attack" that uses a padding oracle vulnerability to decrypt cookies as a low-privileged user. The attacks exploit weaknesses in Google's security feature that was designed to stop infostealer malware from stealing browser cookies. MORE

  • Firefox vulnerability (CVE-2025-4919) allowed attackers to bypass browser security by exploiting math operations in the JavaScript engine's bounds checking system. The bug, demonstrated at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, enabled out-of-bounds memory access through corrupted array indexing calculations. MORE

πŸ’‘ Tips

  • NahamSec reveals his financial transformation from high earnings without savings to strategically accumulating $100,000. By adopting the "Profit First" system, they prioritized saving by immediately allocating percentages of income across designated accounts. His approach shifted their mindset from spending impulsively to intentionally managing finances, proving that financial success depends more on systematic management than total income. MORE

  • Mallory Contois shares how sending "scary" emails transformed her career, landing roles at Mercury, Maven, and advisory positions through bold outreach. She encourages sending one nerve-wracking email weekly, claiming it's life-changing and offering accountability support. MORE

  • Bug bounty hunters Mustafa and Codecancare collaborated to exploit a tricky SQL injection that SQLmap couldn't handle, where the backend treated "+" as literal characters instead of spaces. Mustafa used AI (Gemini Pro) to craft a custom Python exploit script after manual testing with a case-when payload revealed the vulnerability. MORE

  • Lee explains why AI models seem to get "dumber" over time - it's actually about context management, not declining intelligence. He breaks down how AI context works like cooking ingredients, showing how conversation length affects model performance and why understanding context limits is crucial for better AI outputs. MORE

  • Danish: "Life is won by people who say yes and figure out how to make it happen later." MORE

🧠 Wisdom

  • Jason Fried from Basecamp defends building similar products repeatedly, comparing software makers to knife smiths who perfect their craft through iteration. He argues there's nothing wrong with focusing on what you're good at rather than constantly chasing bigger, flashier projects. MORE

  • Renowned poet David Whyte explores the creative process and mindset that drives masterful writing in this insightful YouTube discussion. He reveals how great writers tap into vulnerability and authentic expression to create work that resonates deeply with readers. MORE

  • How I Saved My First $100,000 From Bug Bounty Hunting. MORE

  • Tech leaders use "inevitabilism" - claiming AI's future is unavoidable - to frame debates in their favor and shut down alternative visions. Don't let this rhetorical trick steal your choice in shaping the technology future you actually want. MORE

  • Claire shares a liberating insight: most people know almost nothing about who you really are, even those close to you, because they view you through their own narrow lens. Instead of exhausting yourself trying to prove your worth to others, embrace being authentically yourselfβ€”it's far more fun and impactful. MORE

πŸ“š Resources

  • This video reveals common mistakes developers make when using Claude for coding and demonstrates the optimal workflow to maximize AI-assisted programming efficiency. Learn the proper techniques to get better code suggestions, debug more effectively, and streamline your development process with Claude's advanced features. MORE

  • Lenny shared the top 20 most mentioned books from his popular product management podcast. The list features essential reads for founders and product managers, sparking discussion about which books first-time founders should prioritize. MORE

  • Josh breaks down SVG fundamentals in this friendly guide, showing how these scalable vector graphics work as first-class DOM citizens you can style with CSS and animate with JavaScript. Learn essential shapes, the powerful viewBox attribute for responsive scaling, and cool animation tricks like drawing effects using stroke properties. MORE

  • GMSGadget is a collection of JavaScript gadgets that can bypass XSS mitigations like Content Security Policy (CSP) and HTML sanitizers such as DOMPurify. The project catalogs 57 libraries with known script gadgets, providing security researchers with tools to test web application defenses. MORE

  • Randomrobbie shares 47+ essential bug bounty tools organized by category, from subdomain enumeration to XSS scanning. It's a comprehensive toolkit covering reconnaissance, vulnerability detection, and exploitation tools that security researchers rely on daily. MORE

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