Kelsey Hightower discusses the evolution of DevOps, explaining how platform engineering creates APIs between company needs and infrastructure rather than teaching everyone Kubernetes. He argues that while AI may improve tooling interfaces, the fundamentals of building reliable, deterministic systems remain unchanged, and emphasizes the importance of human skills and specialization over forcing everyone to become generalists. MORE

Lee Robinson migrated Cursor's website from a complex CMS back to raw code and Markdown in just 3 days using AI coding agents, spending only $260 in tokens instead of the estimated weeks of work. The migration eliminated expensive abstractions, cut CDN costs by thousands, and made the site faster while proving that AI agents can tackle major technical debt efficiently. MORE

Keith curated over 170 fascinating reads from 2025, organizing them into categories like AI, climate change, career advice, and cybersecurity. The collection offers both deep dives and quick overviews of the year's most important tech and security developments. MORE

Tom Whitwell's annual list reveals fascinating tech insights from 2025, including how Chinese AI initially mixed languages unintelligibly and North Korean IT workers infiltrating Fortune 50 companies with fake CVs. The collection spans from fusion energy creating radioactive gold to smartphone sounds unlocking shopping cart wheels. MORE

Arcanum Security released a comprehensive taxonomy classifying prompt injection attacks into categories like API discovery, system scanning, data poisoning, and encoding obfuscation techniques. This framework helps security teams understand and defend against the growing threat of AI model manipulation across different attack vectors and input methods. MORE

NahamCon is a virtual security conference founded by NahamSec featuring offensive security, bug bounties, and hacking content. The event runs December 17-18 with hands-on workshops, talks on AI and recon, plus a 36-hour CTF competition. MORE

Microsoft expanded its bug bounty program to cover all online services by default, including third-party and open-source code that impacts their systems. The new "In Scope by Default" approach awarded over $17 million last year and aims to incentivize security research on the highest-risk areas that attackers target most. MORE

The Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation with backing from tech giants like AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The new foundation aims to create open standards for AI agents, with initial donations including Anthropic's Model Context Protocol and OpenAI's AGENTS.md specification. MORE

Kelsey Hightower reviews real resumes live, revealing why most fail to show impact over activities and how to make yours memorable to hiring managers. He emphasizes writing for humans first, not algorithms, and committing to a clear professional identity rather than trying to be everything to everyone. MORE

Detection engineering isn't just writing SIEM rules - it's a full software development discipline involving research, testing, automation, and collaboration across security teams. Real detection engineers build scalable systems that produce reliable alerts, not endless noise that drowns SOC analysts. MORE

The Bubble Is Labor. We've forgotten that companies have never wanted to hire anyone in the first place. "Companies only hire people because they can't do all the work themselves." MORE

Yana Welinder, Head of AI at Amplitude and former founder, shares how to ship products 10x faster by embracing AI-native workflows and eliminating decision-by-committee processes. She demonstrates practical AI tools for prototyping, customer feedback analysis, and daily work automation while explaining why speed beats perfection in today's competitive landscape. MORE

This investigation reveals how AI has devastated the copywriting industry, with workers sharing stories of mass layoffs, shuttered businesses, and being forced to edit AI-generated content for lower pay. From agencies that went from $600K annual revenue to under $10K, to freelancers turning to sex work after losing clients to AI tools, these firsthand accounts show the human cost of AI adoption in creative fields. MORE

A computer science professor has used a single text file for 14 years to track his daily tasks, meeting notes, and research ideas, creating a 51,690-line productivity system. His simple approach involves copying calendar items to the text file each night and adding notes throughout the day, creating both a to-do list and permanent record of everything he's accomplished. MORE

How to change your life by journaling in 2026. Ali journaled daily since 2015 explains how writing down your thoughts and feelings can break mental barriers that prevent you from taking life-changing actions. He breaks down three levels of journaling - from simple daily logging to deep goal-setting sessions - and provides actionable tips including using AI tools like Claude for prompts. MORE

How to used Claude Code to speed up your shell startup by 95%. A developer used Claude AI to optimize their shell startup time from 770ms to just 40ms—a 95% improvement—by implementing lazy-loading wrapper functions that defer expensive tool initialization until first use. MORE

Let's Encrypt celebrates 10 years since issuing its first certificate, growing from zero to 10 million daily certificates and helping encrypt 80% of web traffic globally. The free certificate authority now protects nearly a billion websites and has become essential internet infrastructure. MORE

Google launched CSS Wrapped 2025: their annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. MORE

Beloved entertainer Dick van Dyke celebrates his 100th birthday, revealing his surprising passion for computer animation and the Amiga computer system. The legendary actor from Mary Poppins and The Dick Van Dyke Show became a digital animation enthusiast, using LightWave 3D software well into his 90s. MORE

PortSwigger's Burp On Tour 2025 brought their application security tools to conferences, universities, and meetups worldwide, showcasing new AI features and HTTP/1.1 research. The company plans to expand their community outreach in 2026 while continuing to support security professionals at every skill level.MORE

A Reddit user's Claude CLI session went catastrophically wrong when the AI accidentally included ~/ in a delete command, wiping their entire Mac home directory including Desktop, Documents, and system files. The mishap occurred because the user had enabled --dangerously-skip-permissions mode, prompting discussions about AI safety guardrails and proper sandboxing practices. MORE

Intelligence agencies across Europe report a surge in online radicalization targeting children as young as 12, with extremists using gaming platforms, TikTok algorithms, and Discord servers to groom kids through emotional manipulation rather than ideology. The article reveals three real cases and emphasizes that digital literacy and resilience—not just restrictions—are key to protecting children from sophisticated online predators. MORE

React2Shell Side Quest: Tracking Down Malicious MeshCentral Nodes. GreyNoise tracked 116 malicious MeshCentral IPs in 90 days, highlighting how threat actors abuse trusted remote management software to blend in with normal network traffic. MORE

ThePrimeagen explores a novel approach to AI integration in coding. He demonstrates a Lua project using AI for precise code completion within a specific context, not wholesale code generation. It leverages Tree-sitter for intelligent function identification. MORE

Debbie Codes was laid off from her dream job at Microsoft Spain despite achieving a promotion to Principal and growing the Playwright community to over 44k members on LinkedIn. She's processing the grief of losing her ideal role while interviewing for new remote opportunities in the exciting AI advancement era. MORE

Corridor introduces "Agentic Coding Security Management" (ACSM), a new approach that prevents AI coding vulnerabilities before they're written rather than finding them after. The platform injects security guardrails directly into AI coding workflows and provides real-time testing to ensure enterprise-grade secure code generation. MORE

Developer Cassidy Williams shares her honest take on AI-powered "vibe coding" - while it's effective for building apps quickly, watching AI agents write code is surprisingly boring and lacks the satisfaction of solving problems yourself. She finds herself dozing off while AI does the work, missing the "eureka moments" that make programming enjoyable. MORE

Sanity's CMS team responds to Vercel, a high-profile customer, who migrated away using AI agents, spending $260 to replace their system with markdown files and custom tooling. They argue that while the customer's frustrations were valid, they essentially rebuilt CMS features across different tools and will face scaling challenges as content complexity grows. MORE

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize. Colleges are rushing to integrate AI into every part of their curricula, but research shows students using ChatGPT produce worse work and show less brain activity. Universities should focus on building critical thinking skills first, then introduce AI tools only after students master foundational abilities. MORE

Google researchers discovered "Task Injection" attacks that trick AI agents into performing malicious actions by disguising them as legitimate sub-tasks, like solving fake CAPTCHAs. These attacks can bypass traditional prompt injection defenses and successfully extract sensitive data from systems like OpenAI's Operator. MORE

Full Tutorial: Create Beautiful Infographics that Match Your Brand in 15 Min (Nano Banana). The method includes building custom style guides, structuring prompts in two steps, and iterating with AI to generate consistent branded graphics instead of generic clipart. MORE

Make Your Own Spotify Unwrapped using exported listening data and Python/JavaScript instead of relying on Spotify's APIs. The tutorial shows how to analyze 128,000+ tracks to create custom music statistics with date filtering and top artist/song rankings. MORE

Simon Willison shares patterns for building single-file HTML tools using LLMs, covering 150+ examples from SVG renderers to OCR apps. He explains techniques like URL state persistence, CORS APIs, WebAssembly integration, and hosting on GitHub Pages for maximum portability. MORE

Block's engineering team shows how Model Context Protocol (MCP) goes beyond IDE copilots to coordinate GitHub, Slack, and Jira workflows seamlessly. Real example: developers identified a bug, opened an issue, discussed solutions, and implemented a fix entirely within Slack in just 5 minutes. MORE

MacSparky has updated his popular AppleScript that copies Apple Mail message links to your clipboard, making it easier to reference emails in other apps. The new version includes better error handling, cleaner notifications, and improved link formatting to avoid broken references. MORE

Martin Kleppmann predicts AI will revolutionize formal verification by making mathematical proofs of code correctness cheap and automated. This could transform software development from bug-prone manual coding to AI-generated code with guaranteed mathematical proof of correctness. MORE

Mark Rober, the former NASA engineer behind viral science videos, shares his "Super Mario effect" framework for turning failure into fuel for success. He reveals how treating setbacks like video game obstacles - learning from each "death" while staying focused on the end goal - can transform your approach to challenges and help you build resilience in both work and life. MORE

Explore how viewing ourselves as ongoing processes rather than fixed objects can ease our deepest fears about mortality. This shift from seeing ourselves as nouns to verbs offers profound relief from existential anxiety about death and non-existence. MORE

On 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads. Joe reflects on a decade of blogging to an audience of practically zero, sharing hard-won lessons about cutting fluff from writing and why the process itself matters more than readership. Despite averaging just 10 views per week, he argues that writing remains valuable for crystallizing ideas and improving communication skills, even in the age of AI. MORE

The AI industry is dangerously normalizing over-reliance on unreliable LLM outputs, similar to how NASA ignored warning signs before the Challenger disaster. Major vendors like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google are shipping AI agents with known security flaws while warning users about data theft and unintended actions. MORE

WebPerf Snippets provides a curated collection of JavaScript code snippets to measure web performance metrics directly in your browser console or Chrome DevTools. These ready-to-use tools help developers quickly analyze Core Web Vitals and other performance indicators without additional setup. MORE

Searchlight Cyber discovered a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-61757) in Oracle Identity Manager that could have compromised Oracle Cloud's login service. The flaw exploits authentication bypass using Java path parameters combined with Groovy annotation processors to achieve RCE without credentials. MORE

Gotchas in Email Parsing. Jakarta Mail's email parsing can be exploited through inconsistent validation between different constructors and RFC-compliant parsing that differs from developer expectations. Attackers can bypass domain restrictions using malformed addresses like <[email protected]>@trusted.com where the email goes to the attacker but appears to be from the trusted domain. MORE

Critical vulnerability in Claude Code (CVE-2025-64755) that allowed remote code execution through a flaw in sed expression parsing. The bug bypassed multiple security checks and could be exploited via prompt injection from Git repos, webpages, or MCP servers. MORE

The Path of a Packet Through the Linux Kernel. Networking stacks are the backbone of communication and information exchange. This paper investigates the TCP/IPv4 and UDP/IPv4 network stack of Linux, the most common server OS. MORE