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Greetings from the hive!

  • Began using Every.to's products after trying their voice-to-text Monologue app.

  • Discovered that Salesforce has a CLI, which opens up many automation opportunities.

  • Started consolidating my various email domains into a single inbox.

  • My current Home Assistant MQTT setup has started to fail due to memory issues. I will likely move it to my desktop from the old Raspberry Pi.

What have you been working on?

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • Recenter on Software Fundamentals. Matt Pocock argues why fundamentals beat hype. The talk pairs critique with practical advice. MORE

  • It's Your Vendor. It's Your Customer's Data. A 15-year-old found a Zendesk bug that exposed Fortune 500 customer data, but got paid nothing because bug bounty programs routinely dismiss third-party vulnerabilities as "not our problem." MORE

  • Trigger Deterministic Prompt Injection. Client-side feedback loops make prompt injection repeatable. It turns chaos into a reliable exploit path. MORE

  • Question Software Brain. Nilay probes AI backlash and automation. It asks what breaks when software thinks for us. MORE

  • Use the Career Cold Start Algorithm. A leader shares how to ramp fast on a team mid-flight. It focuses on trust and impact. MORE

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Attackers don't care who wrote the code. Customers don't care who hosts the subdomain. But most companies still treat everything between the brand and the customer as somebody else's problem.

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πŸ—žοΈ News

  • Stress-Test GPT-5.5. A three-week trial finds big capability gains and sharp limits. The review shows where the model wins and fails. MORE

  • Launch Monologue Notes. The product turns calls and voice memos into searchable notes. It promises automatic summaries and action items. MORE

🌎 Community

  • Ask HN: Solo Business Is Impossible?. Engineers debate if solo businesses can survive today. The thread surfaces risk and upside. MORE

  • Ask HN: First Projects as a Solo Engineer. Builders share how they landed early clients. It collects tactics that still work. MORE

  • Learn From 1,000 Amazon Interviews. A former principal engineer summarizes Bar Raiser patterns. It highlights what strong signals look like. MORE

  • Measure a Decade in Output. A reflection on what ten years of focus can yield. It offers a framework for long-term bets. MORE

  • Argue AI Has No Moat. A blunt critique says AI startups face rapid commoditization. It details why tooling alone won't defend value. MORE

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

  • @mazen160 - Hacker and builder focused on AppSec, InfraSec, DevSecOps, and offensive security. Founder of FullHunt, ex ProtonMail.

  • @fatih - Software engineer at PlanetScale, creator of vim-go, design addict and photographer. Previously GitHub and DigitalOcean.

  • @swyx - Builder and advisor focused on ambitious careers and modern dev tools. Hosts Latent Space and works with multiple AI teams.

  • @nlamgade - Founder at Cynical Sec and Bugvsecurity. Leads BSides Kathmandu and Bounty Bash communities.

  • @Jhaddix - CEO, CISO, trainer, and hacker focused on cybersecurity, AI, and security leadership.

πŸ‘€ Explore

  • Browse KATALOG's Curated Library. A visual archive built for obsessive collectors. It showcases themed sets to explore. MORE

  • Flip Through Alternative Book Covers. A gallery of inventive cover designs. It's a quick tour of unexpected art directions. MORE

  • Learn How GPS Really Works. An interactive walkthrough connects geometry, time, and relativity. It makes GPS click in minutes. MORE

  • Meet the SpaceX of the Ocean. A documentary follows MAKO building ocean tech. It shows the ambition and hard engineering. MORE

  • Rethink Clinical Trial Speed. A deep dive on why trials are slow and how to fix them. It outlines practical policy shifts. MORE

πŸ› οΈ Build

🧰 Try

  • Manage Markdown Vaults With Tolaria. A desktop app for Mac and Linux organizes large markdown bases. It keeps knowledge local and fast. MORE

  • Tune Neovim Options Fast. A quick guide to the most common options and what they do. It helps you shape editor behavior fast. MORE

  • Extract PDFs in the Browser. LiteParse pulls text client-side for quick parsing. It avoids heavy backend services. MORE

  • Run Unified AI CLI Workflows. Drift orchestrates local AI CLI tools in one place. Security copilot / MCP assistant for Caido. MORE

  • Automate Video Supercuts. Supercut uses Gemini to build montage clips from prompts. It speeds up highlight creation. MORE

πŸš€ Ship

  • Ship a 10kb Hex Map. Calibre shares how they built a dynamic hex world map. The post explains the rendering tricks. MORE

  • Boost Velocity With Claude Code. Intercom explains how Claude Code doubled engineering speed. The talk covers workflow and guardrails. MORE

  • Design for AI Agents Quickly. A 25-minute build shows an AI-agent product flow and second brain. It focuses on practical wiring. MORE

πŸ’° Advance

  • Build Mental Models for Startups. A SXSW talk on frameworks for running teams and businesses. It breaks down how to decide faster. MORE

  • Challenge $100M Business Advice. DHH and Sam Parr debate scale myths and simple focus. The episode is blunt and practical. MORE

  • Use 3 Mental Models for AI. A short guide shows ways to get better results from AI. It emphasizes clear intent and constraints. MORE

  • See Your Business in Systems. A video shows how system views fix chaotic operations. It gives a clear lens for owners. MORE

  • Learn Product in the AI Era. A guest lecture on building products when models shift fast. It outlines key PM tradeoffs. MORE

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John Carmack

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