Hi friends,

Greetings from the hive!

I used to play and watch League of Legends. Nowadays, I don't do either, except for tuning into Worlds.

I don't like to watch the matches directly though, I watch pro players react to them.

Leisure aside, here's what's been nagging me: everyone says "I'd die for my kids." The real question is harder. Would you live for them?

That question led me somewhere else. What does it mean for me to be anti-fragile? Not just physically. Mentally. Spiritually too.

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • Comprehensive guide to using every Claude Code feature effectively, from the essential CLAUDE.md file to advanced hooks and GitHub Actions. He reveals practical tips for managing context windows, avoiding common pitfalls, and building scalable AI-powered development workflows that his team uses to process billions of tokens monthly. MORE

  • Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs. MORE

  • Dennis Yang, Principal PM at Chime, demonstrates how he uses Cursor (an AI-powered IDE) as his complete workflow hub - writing PRDs in markdown, pushing them to Confluence/Notion via MCPs, reading and responding to comments with AI, creating detailed Jira tickets, and generating status reports. This showcases a fully AI-enabled product management workflow where he barely writes code but leverages Cursor's interoperability with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Figma to automate the busywork while staying in the loop for strategic decisions. MORE

  • DIY longevity protocol inspired by Peter Attia's "Medicine 3.0" approach costs around $10k/year versus $60k for his concierge practice. The comprehensive plan includes regular blood work, fitness tracking, preventive scans, and proactive health optimization rather than reactive medical care. MORE

  • David Senra breaks down Elon Musk's 31 core company-building principles, from "the mission comes first" to his famous Algorithm for constant optimization. The deep-dive covers three decades of Musk's career insights, including his battlefield leadership style and relentless focus on deletion and simplification. MORE | HIGHLIGHTS

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πŸ“° Updates

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  • Anthropic launched Claude Code on the web, letting developers code directly from browsers by connecting GitHub repos and running tasks in parallel across multiple projects. The new Haiku 4.5 model delivers 90% of Sonnet 4.5's coding performance at one-third the cost and twice the speed, making it ideal for implementation while Sonnet handles high-level planning. MORE

  • OpenAI launched Aardvark, an AI security researcher powered by GPT-5 that automatically finds vulnerabilities in code repositories and suggests fixes. The tool achieved 92% accuracy in tests and has already discovered 10 CVE-worthy bugs in open source projects during its private beta. MORE

  • PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open. MORE

πŸ’Ό Work

πŸ’° Career

  • The AI Productivity Trap: Senior Boost, Junior Drag. Scott and Mark argue companies need to restructure hiring to focus on mentoring early-career developers rather than replacing them with AI, or risk losing the next generation of skilled programmers. MORE

  • Cursor, the AI-powered code editor used by millions of developers, is rapidly expanding with 14 open positions across engineering, sales, and operations. The company is hiring for roles from ML research engineers to account executives, with most positions based in San Francisco or New York. MORE

  • Kelly Vaughn, Senior Engineering Manager, shares her proven strategies for landing your next promotion in this career-focused podcast episode. She breaks down the key steps to position yourself for advancement and navigate the promotion process effectively. MORE

πŸš€ Productivity

  • A Windows power user shares how to create custom workspaces in XYplorer file manager using catalogs, tab sets, and scripts for organized project switching. The setup allows quick access to specific files, folders, and tools for different work areas with simple catalog navigation. MORE

  • Stefan Judis created a custom Git script called git-cco that simplifies adding co-authors to commits. The latest update removes redundant prompts to streamline the workflow for developers working on collaborative projects. MORE

  • Developer Evan Hahn shares his collection of personal shell scripts that he uses daily, from clipboard utilities and file management to audio controls and system automation. These practical automation tools demonstrate how custom scripts can streamline common tasks and boost productivity for developers and power users. MORE

🌎 Community

  • Every's six engineers reveal how they've built AI-powered workflows to run four products, consulting, and a 100K+ reader newsletter with just their small team. From Claude Code experiments to custom agent orchestration, each developer has crafted unique stacks that maximize productivity while maintaining focus and quality control. MORE

πŸ’› Follow Awesome accounts to follow. Randomly selected from my curated Twitter lists.

Twitter Handle

Name

Bio

Makaveli

Christian!

Scott Piper

Cloud security historian. Developed CloudMapper, and Parliament. Founding team for @fwdcloudsec.

nikhil(niks)

@SynackRedTeam Legend | Lead Pentester @Cobalt_io | Founder @BSidesAhmedabad | Speaker @bugbountydefcon @appsec_village | Board of Advisor @riskprofilerio

Κœα΄€α΄’α΄€Ι΄α΄€

Matan Berson

Hacking for fun | H1-65 Eliminator award | AWC23 Best New Hacker

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πŸ“° Read

  • Tim Urban from Wait But Why shares hilariously relatable observations about toddler parenting, from being simultaneously obsessed with and bored by his 2-year-old to discovering that toddlers are "dicks" who can ruin your week with a single sneeze. His witty insights reveal the paradox of raising tiny humans who are both genius language-learners and completely clueless about basic reality. MORE

  • The Premortem: Your Product’s Autopsy Before Launch. Most product teams plan for success, which makes sense until you realize that planning only for success is how companies end up surprised when things go sideways. Smart teams also plan for failure. MORE

  • Meta introduces the "Agents Rule of Two" security framework to protect AI agents from prompt injection attacks by limiting them to only two of three risky capabilities: processing untrusted data, accessing sensitive systems, or taking external actions. This practical approach helps developers build safer AI agents while maintaining functionality, addressing a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to hijack agents and steal private data or send malicious messages. MORE

  • How a "Fixed" IDOR and an Empty String Led to 5 Million+ File Leaks. MORE "The endpoint never checked if my authenticated user was authorized to read the file. It just blindly trusted any key the client sent, and if it existed, it happily signed a URL for it. Their big, complex ID "fix" on the other endpoint was completely useless."

  • Iranian hackers stole a Dutch bakery's address to rent attack servers, using the legitimate business identity on 31 invoices between 2023-2025 without the bakery's knowledge. AI analysis of leaked intelligence files revealed this identity theft was part of Iran's APT35 hacking operation that targeted governments across multiple countries using cryptocurrency payments. MORE

πŸ’‘ Tips

  • Software engineer shares his advanced Claude Code workflow after solo-rewriting 300k lines of code in 6 months. His system uses TypeScript hooks to auto-activate coding skills, PM2 for backend debugging, and a dev docs system that prevents Claude from losing focus mid-implementation. MORE

  • JavaScript now supports importing JSON files directly, but Jake Archibald explains why fetch() is usually better for browser apps. JSON imports create memory leaks and can't be garbage collected, making them risky for dynamic data. MORE

  • Marco Casalaina demonstrates live-coding a kid-friendly AI fortune teller app using GitHub Spark for his neighborhood Halloween block party. The 10-minute session shows how to quickly build and iterate on a mobile app that generates whimsical, age-appropriate fortunes with simple prompts. MORE

  • Tomasz shows how his AI podcast processor grew from a local DuckDB instance to cloud-scale with just two characters changed in code. His data journey demonstrates how MotherDuck offers 2-4x faster performance than Snowflake at 1/10th to 1/100th the cost as small projects scale up. MORE

  • Ivana Greco shares her approach to nurturing a 4-year-old's curiosity with simple tools like a $15 pocket microscope, kids' camera, and outdoor exploration time. She emphasizes fostering natural wonder over structured activities, plus recommends Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for physical development. MORE

🧠 Wisdom

  • Seasoned tech entrepreneur Tynan shares hard-won life lessons with his young nephew, covering everything from avoiding substances to taking calculated risks while young. The advice emphasizes building genuine confidence, investing early, and developing rare social skills that will become increasingly valuable as technology dominates our world. MORE

  • This comprehensive Linux troubleshooting guide breaks down a systematic 3-step approach to diagnose any system issue: identify the exact problem, gather relevant context, and check logs/configs. The video covers common hardware vs software issues, error message analysis, and practical solutions for boot problems, IO errors, library mismatches, and performance issues. MORE

  • Amjad Masad, Replit's founder, shares six battle-tested principles for staying competitive and avoiding failure in tech startups. His tactics include obsessing over survival scenarios, never quitting when you're not "dead," and building hard tech that compounds over time. MORE

  • Scott H Young read 102 books in a year and distilled the most valuable insights from each topic, from fitness to productivity to relationships. His key findings include that exercise cuts death risk by 40%, multitasking is a myth, and happiness drives productivity more than stress. MORE

πŸ“š Resources

  • Context Engineering for Non Engineers. Most people are stuck typing desperate prompts into blank AI chat boxes when they could be getting dramatically better results by using three simple layers of context control. Learn how system instructions, projects, and proper prompting can transform AI from a generic tool into something tailored specifically for your work - no technical skills required. MORE

  • How Pixelmelt Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked. MORE

  • Claude Pirate: Abusing Anthropic's File API For Data Exfiltration. MORE

  • A critical bug in popular Rust tar libraries causes them to misinterpret file contents as headers when processing PAX extended headers. This "TARmageddon" vulnerability affects Docker images and can lead to extracting completely wrong files from tar archives. MORE

  • Practical Android Pentesting: A Case Study on TikTok RCE. MORE

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