Hi friends,

Greetings from the hive!

I hope you are warm and doing well. Where I live it was unusually cold these last several weeks.

Fortunately it's been warming up and most of the ice that covered the entire landscape has melted.

Paired with that phenomenom I've also started doing my "daily" walks again.

Moving along with my simple is strong methodology, I updated my iPhone quick capture to a simple dropdown menu.

Currently with only two options: Create Note (Obsidian) and Record Voice (native iOS).

I've also started honing my Opencode setup, adding Skills, and defining configs.

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • Anthropic's 0-Day Discovery. Claude Opus 4.6 found 500+ high-severity vulnerabilities in well-tested open source codebases by reasoning about code the way human researchers would. MORE

  • The springs of action: What Moves Us, and the Words We Use to Hide It. Bentham's 1817 work reimagined. All actions aim for pleasure or pain avoidance, masked by language. This insight helps decode motives in politics, business, and media. Actions stem from 14 motives like wealth and curiosity. MORE

  • Terminal Tricks for Agentic Workflows. Hands-on ZSH functions and aliases that enhance Claude Code and other agentic CLI tools. MORE

  • Jeff Dean on the AI Frontier. From rewriting Google's search stack to Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flashβ€”the history and future of AI at Google. MORE

  • Cognitive Debt vs Technical Debt. As AI generates more code faster, the real debt accumulates in developers' minds, not in the codebase. MORE

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πŸ—žοΈ News

  • On Discord Alternatives. With Discord requiring age verification, Soatok breaks down why there's no good encrypted alternative todayβ€”and what needs to be built. MORE

  • Peter Steinberger, known recently for his work on OpenClaw, announced he's joining OpenAI to help bring AI agents to mainstream users. Meanwhile, his OpenClaw project is transitioning into an independent foundation to continue its open-source mission. MORE

  • Bugcrowd Founder Moves On. Casey Ellis shares lessons from 13 years building the bug bounty category and hints at what's next for the hacker mindset. MORE

  • Obsidian CLI is an early access feature that introduces an command-line interface that lets you control the popular note-taking app from your terminal for automation and scripting. The CLI gives Claude 85% of Obsidian's capabilities with 54x faster searches and 70,000x cheaper token costs compared to traditional file scanning methods. MORE | TEST CASE

  • Can You Fly That Thing? AI "skills" are programs written in plain English that instantly give AI agents new capabilities, like uploading helicopter pilot knowledge in The Matrix. However, a recent analysis of nearly 5,000 AI repositories found malware hidden in these skill packages, creating serious security risks. MORE

🌎 Community

  • RCE in Google's AI code editor Antigravity. The flaw exploited the browser extension's screen recording feature to write malicious files anywhere on the system, potentially achieving code execution through the Windows startup folder. MORE

  • XBOW Finds 0-day IDORs. Autonomous security agents discovered two previously unknown IDOR vulnerabilities in Spree Commerce through multi-step reasoning and visual analysis. MORE

  • Trail of Bits Claude Code Config. Opinionated defaults and security-focused workflows for Claude Code from one of the top security research firms. MORE

  • Burp AI Agent Extension. A Burp Suite extension adding 53+ MCP tools, AI-assisted analysis, and passive/active scanning across 62 vulnerability classes. MORE

  • After nearly seven years at HackerOne, Ariel Garcia reflects on building their pentest community from scratch and creating a global hacker ambassador network spanning 45 countries. His biggest achievement was launching the Ambassador World Cup tournament that paid out $2.4 million in its latest edition. MORE

πŸ’› Follow
Awesome accounts to follow. Randomly selected from my curated Twitter lists, I recently updated my AI list.

  • @irsdl - Hacker (ethical), web appsec specialist, trainer, tools builder & apps breaker

  • @beep - Designer, writer, and tech worker. Started that responsive web design thing.

  • @rekter0 - Doing things sundialxyz, CTF water_paddler / BlueWater

  • @HusseiN98D - Entrepreneur, Hacker. WebImmunify, ranked on BugCrowd

  • @mr_hacker0007 - Bug Hunter intigriti, Ex Bugcrowd, TeamBounters

πŸ‘€ Explore

  • Font Review Journal. A beautifully designed publication dedicated to in-depth typography reviews and type design analysis. MORE

  • Gian Galang Portfolio. Striking combat illustration work with bold colors and dynamic compositions worth studying. MORE

  • Myinstants Soundboard. A collection of trending sound effects and meme sounds. Surprisingly useful for video editing and presentations, but in my case for agentic notifications. MORE

  • Please start eating fiber. The discussion highlights how many millennials struggle with digestive health issues due to poor dietary habits, sparking widespread conversation about nutrition and wellness in their 30s and 40s. MORE

  • PhoneLeak: Gemini Data Exfiltration. Security researchers discovered they could exfiltrate data from Gemini mobile by making it call an attacker's phone and encode secrets as DTMF tones. MORE

πŸ› οΈ Build

🧰 Try

  • Moshi: SSH Terminal for Claude Code & AI Agents - Guides and tutorials for AI coding agents and mobile terminal workflows.The complete guide to settin... MORE

  • Julius: LLM Service Fingerprinting. An open-source tool that identifies what LLM server software is running on any endpointβ€”Ollama, vLLM, LiteLLM, and 17+ more. MORE

  • Augustus: LLM Prompt Injection Scanner. Test LLMs against 210+ adversarial attacks covering jailbreaks, prompt injection, encoding exploits, and data extraction. MORE

  • Showboat and Rodney: Simon Willison's new tools let coding agents build demo documents and automate browser sessions to prove their work actually works. MORE

  • Modular .bashrc with .bashrc.d/. Source a directory of files instead of one massive .bashrcβ€”a cleaner pattern for shell configuration. MORE

πŸš€ Ship

  • GitButler CLI. A reimagining of git for online-first workflows: parallel branches, stacked PRs without rebase nightmares, and an undo that actually makes sense. MORE

  • Gwtar: Static Efficient HTML Archives. A clever polyglot format that creates single-file HTML archives that still lazy-load assets via HTTP range requests. MORE

  • Vulnerability Spoiler Alert. A GitHub Action that alerts on security patches before the CVE drops by monitoring commit messages. MORE

  • lazyqmd TUI. A terminal UI for qmd files, making command-line documentation navigation easier. MORE

  • Do Less. Cate Hall discovers that optimization itself can sabotage rest, learning, and meditationβ€”sometimes shutting off the machinery is the real breakthrough. MORE

πŸ’° Advance

  • Nudge Theory for Good Choices. Design your environment so positive behaviors become automaticβ€”practical applications for wealth, health, relationships, and career. MORE

  • AI Doesn't Reduce Workβ€”It Intensifies It. HBR research suggests AI tools may increase workload rather than decrease it, challenging productivity assumptions. MORE

  • Stop Optimizing Your Life. Start Living. Dr. K suggests stepping back from endless productivity hacks and self-improvement routines to focus on being present and authentic. MORE

  • You Could've Invented OpenClaw. Nader Dabit breaks down how to build a persistent AI assistant from scratch in just 400 lines of Python, covering sessions, tools, memory, and multi-channel messaging. He walks through each component step-by-step, showing how you could have invented OpenClaw yourself using basic building blocks like JSONL files, system prompts, and tool execution loops. MORE

  • The AI Vampire. Steve Yegge warns that AI tools like Claude Code are creating an "energy vampire" effect, draining developers through addictive 10x productivity gains that lead to burnout and overwork. He argues companies are extracting all the value while employees suffer exhaustion, proposing a 3-4 hour workday as the solution to fight back against unsustainable AI-driven expectations. MORE

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