Hi friends,

Greetings from the hive!

More skill experiments this week. Big wins.

I also went back to voice memos + Obsidian, but the workflow still isn’t settled.

Watched Cold Souls and Caveat. Wildly different movies.

Did another CX audit tooβ€”this time on 1Password, prompted by their recent pricing change.

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis. A fictional scenario modeling what happens when AI replaces white-collar jobs faster than institutions can adapt. Not a prediction, but a thought exercise in financial history from the future. MORE

  • Best Technical Takeaways from Portswigger Top 10 2025. Rhynorater and rez0, break down complex technical research papers into understandable concepts. MORE

  • AI Is an Exoskeleton, Not a Coworker. Companies that treat AI as an amplifier of human capability see better results than those chasing full autonomy. The exoskeleton model explains why with real-world data from Ford, the military, and running research. MORE

  • Stop Generating, Start Thinking. LLM-generated code looks fine at first but falls apart under scrutiny. Outsourcing the thinking behind software to machines is more dangerous than outsourcing the typing. MORE

  • Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence. AI-generated code is flooding open source with bad PRs while real contributors quietly fork and move on. The feedback loop that made open source work is breaking. MORE

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πŸ—žοΈ News

  • Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. Then Gemini Changed the Rules. Google spent a decade telling developers API keys weren't sensitive. Now Gemini grants access through old keys, and Truffle Security found nearly 3,000 exposed on public websites. MORE

  • curl's Security Reporting Returns to HackerOne. After dropping its bug bounty and moving to GitHub, curl is going back to HackerOne. Daniel Stenberg explains what GitHub's security features got wrong. MORE

  • Suno Hit $300M While Artists Declared War. Suno reached $300M ARR and 2M subscribers while a coalition launched "Say No to Suno." With 85% of AI music streams flagged as fraud, the real crisis is curation, not creation. MORE

  • TypeScript Types Failed n8n's Security. TypeScript types vanish at runtime, and a researcher exploited that gap to achieve RCE in n8n by sending objects where strings were expected. MORE

  • Block's AI Layoff Narrative. Om Malik dissects how Jack Dorsey used "AI transformation" to rebrand what was really a correction for years of over-hiring and operational waste at Block. MORE

🌎 Community

  • Keeping Community Human While Scaling with Agents. Vercel built AI agents to handle triage and routing in their developer community, freeing the team for real conversations and complex debugging. MORE

  • Switch to Claude Without Starting Over. Anthropic's new Import Memory feature lets you bring your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude with one copy-paste. MORE

  • Obsidian 1.12 Introduces the CLI. The new release adds a command line interface for scripting and automation, plus drag-to-resize images in Live Preview and automatic attachment cleanup on file deletion. MORE

  • Claude Code Remote Control. A new feature lets you send prompts from the web or iOS app to a Claude Code session running on your machine. Control your coding agent from anywhere. MORE

  • How Cloudflare Rebuilt Next.js with AI in One Week. One engineer used Claude to reimplement Next.js on Vite, producing 57% smaller bundles and 4x faster builds for about $1,100 in tokens. MORE

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

  • @JosipFranjkovic - Security researcher who enjoys breaking websites. Bug bounty hunter and security blogger.

  • @baltaaazr - Building with Cursor and Voxelize.

  • @GoodMarketingHQ - The home of short, sweet, practical marketing examples.

  • @0xw2w - Application security researcher focused on finding bugs and overcoming limitations.

  • @synozeer - Domain investor, affiliate marketer, and gamer.

πŸ‘€ Explore

  • The World's Best Tech Museums. Marcin Wichary reviews 22 tech museums across 4 continents with 350 photos, ranking them by passion, design, and depth of storytelling. MORE

  • Happy Map. An interactive visualization from The Pudding plots where and when 100,000 people around the world report feeling happy, revealing surprising geographic patterns. MORE

  • WTF Happened in 2025?. A curated collection of data visualizations capturing the year's biggest inflection points, from AI to energy to demographics. MORE

  • Chip Away at Confusing UI Patterns. Those "small text with background color" elements are often ambiguous to users. This post explains why designers should be more deliberate with chips, badges, and pills. MORE

  • Customize Ghostty with Hundreds of Themes. Ghostty ships with hundreds of color themes, supports separate light and dark modes, and lets you author custom themes from scratch. MORE

πŸ› οΈ Build

🧰 Try

  • Visual Explainer. An agent skill that turns complex terminal output into styled HTML pages. Diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits, and project recaps rendered with real typography and dark/light themes. MORE

  • Obsidian OSINT Entity Extractor. This plugin fetches web articles, runs AI-powered named-entity extraction, and saves structured notes with linked people, organizations, and places. MORE

  • TerminalPhone. A single Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted push-to-talk voice and text communication over the Tor network. Make encrypted calls from your terminal. MORE

  • Agentic Slack. Moving AI coding agents from the terminal into Slack lets anyone on the teamβ€”designers, PMs, supportβ€”ship fixes without touching a CLI. MORE

  • Meet Tuna, a New macOS Launcher. A brand new modal launcher for Mac that aims to modernize how you search, launch apps, and navigate your system with a clean, keyboard-driven interface. MORE

πŸš€ Ship

  • Build Data Moats with Price Transparency. How to collect and structure pricing data that no competitor or directory can easily replicate, creating a lasting advantage for your project. MORE

  • The Influencer Business Model Is Broken. The traditional influencer model of sponsorships and ads is failing. This video presents an alternative approach that builds sustainable revenue. MORE

  • An AI Agent Coding Skeptic Tries Agent Coding. Max Woolf went from dismissing coding agents to building Rust libraries that outperform existing implementations, documenting every step with radical transparency. MORE

  • Make Things Smaller and Dumber. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance. Dave Rupert's short manifesto on simplicity. MORE

  • Dictionary Compression Is Finally Here. Dictionary compression is now in browsers and can cut JS bundle sizes by up to 90% for returning users by only sending the diff. MORE

πŸ’° Advance

  • AI's Impact on Bug Bounty. Coding agents are helping hackers find bugs faster, which could double submissions this year. But companies will soon run their own automated hunters too. MORE

  • Hoard Things You Know How to Do. Simon Willison argues that collecting working code examples is even more valuable in the agent era, since agents can recombine your proven solutions into new projects. MORE

  • Build Interactive Explanations with Agents. Use coding agents to create animated visualizations that help you understand unfamiliar algorithms. A practical pattern for paying down cognitive debt. MORE

  • How the Every Editorial Team Uses AI. Every publishes their editorial guidelines and shares how each team member uses AI for writing, editing, and production workflows. MORE

  • Hire a Fractional AI Co-founder. Josh Pigford (Baremetrics founder, 80+ products) offers hands-on fractional engagements to help founders integrate AI into their product and workflows fast. MORE

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