Hi friends,

Greetings from the hive!

I'm writing this while enjoying my new go-to DnB focus playlist. You can find it in the LISTEN section below.

According to my Twitter feed, 2025 is the year of Linux (Arch) and Nix, with mentions from DHH, Tobi, ThePrimeagen, and PewDiePie.

I agree that one of the biggest differentiators in effective computing is learning and becoming familiar with Linux. Its commands, scripting, and the ability to customize your environment make it truly your own.

Let's take this week by swarm!

🐝 The Bee's Knees

  • Building powerful and reliable AI Agents is becoming less about finding a magic prompt or model updates. It is about the engineering of context and providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time. MORE

  • Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that uses LLMs to transform HTML content into personalized markdown views based on custom prompts. It can simplify recipe pages, create ELI5 summaries, or highlight key actions, making web browsing more focused and tailored to your specific needs. MORE

  • Red Teaming at National CCDC 2025. There's nothing quite like the feeling of playing Doom on someone's hypervisor and watching as they frantically try to figure out how to eject you from the system. MORE

  • The 10x β€œoveremployed” engineer. A software engineer worked at several AI startups at the same time, without his employers knowing anything about it. Then one frustrated founder who hired him went public. MORE

  • Rachid makes six figures annually doing bug bounty. He breaks down the different hunting styles and strategies, from automation masters to niche specialists: "[...] Move toward what others avoid. People are often lazy and avoid complexity, or what merely appears to be complex. [...]" MORE

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πŸ“° Updates

βœ… Changelog

  • Grammarly is acquiring email startup Superhuman to build an AI-powered productivity suite beyond grammar checking. The deal follows Grammarly's $1 billion funding round and aims to create specialized AI agents that help users manage emails, documents, and workflows more efficiently. MORE

  • Tailwind CEO Adam launched sponsorships as a way to support their work. Help keep Tailwind CSS sustainable long term by supporting the project individually or as a company. MORE

  • Cursor's AI code editor faced backlash over confusing pricing changes that surprised users with unexpected charges. The company is now offering full refunds for usage between June 16-July 4 and promises clearer communication for future pricing updates. MORE

  • The annual curl user survey reveals Linux dominates as the primary platform while HTTPS/HTTP remain the most popular protocols. Key findings show 85% of users rate curl's security handling as excellent, with most running versions just one release behind the latest. MORE

  • Lazygit v0.53.0 brings quality-of-life improvements including better hunk selection in staging view and auto-stash for cherry-picking commits. This marks the first release under new maintainer Stefan Haller after Jesse Duffield passed the torch. MORE

πŸ’Ό Work

πŸ’° Career

  • James Kettle shares his journey into cybersecurity and offers practical advice for breaking into the field. Learn insider tips on building skills, finding opportunities, and navigating the cybersecurity career landscape from an industry expert. MORE

  • Claire Vo argues that AI will enable knowledge workers to take on fractional roles across multiple companies, working as PMs, engineers, or marketers on different projects simultaneously. MORE

  • Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) declares AI Automation Engineer as tech's hottest job right now, with his company willing to hire these professionals for ANY open role. The overwhelming response led Zapier to create a dedicated careers page section and share a sample job description to help job seekers break into this emerging field. MORE

πŸš€ Productivity

  • 4-Stage System for Learning Anything New. MORE

❝

"[...] The goal isn't to become an expert at everything you try. It's to efficiently identify what's worth pursuing and what's not. [...]"

  • Stripe's CEO never studied finance. It wasn’t formal degrees but relentless curiosity that led Patrick Collison and his brother to found a $95 billion company in their early twenties. MORE

❝

"[...] Patrick's learning method was deceptively simple: 1. Reverse-engineer everything obsessively 2. Question every assumption 3. Talk to insiders who built the system 4. Build rapid prototypes from first principles. [...]"

  • Content creation thrives on consistent effort, not perfect conditions. Start with basic equipment, focus on fundamentals, and transform creative barriers into opportunities. Embrace a productive mindset that views failure as a valuable learning experience. MORE

🌎 Community

⚑️ Timeline

  • STΓ–K shares his tradition of collecting beach stones for his mom, reflecting on how the careful selection process using his time and presence makes each stone precious. MORE

  • In typical Pieter Levels fashion, he added an air conditioning filter to his Nomads platform, within 2 hours of receiving feedback. It reveals the shocking AC adoption rates from Sweden's 2% to UAE's 99%. The data shows most European countries lag far behind Asia and North America in AC prevalence, potentially pressuring cooler climates to modernize. MORE

  • DHH argues that mainstream Linux distros should stop copying Windows/Mac aesthetics and instead embrace their unique strengths like terminal UIs, personalization, and tools like Hyprland. He believes Linux needs to market itself as "different and better" rather than "same but cheaper" to truly showcase what makes it special. MORE

  • Nikita Bier, known for creating viral social applications, announced he's joining X as Head of Product, calling it "the most important social network in the world." He plans to leverage Grok AI to create more relevant timelines and help users better understand trending topics.

πŸ„ Level up

πŸ“° Read

  • Oligo Security Research reported a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability and DNS rebinding in the MCP Inspector project to Anthropic, leading to CVE-2025-49596 being issued, with a Critical CVSS Score of 9.4. MORE

  • Sharon discovered that GitHub permanently stores "deleted" commits from force pushes, creating a treasure trove of exposed secrets. By scanning GitHub's archive of zero-commit push events since 2020, they uncovered active credentials worth $25,000 in bug bounties, including admin tokens that could have enabled massive supply-chain attacks. MORE

  • Nonce CSP bypass using Disk Cache. This writeup will describe a way to bypass a nonce-based Content Security Policy in a pretty realistic scenario. MORE

  • Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database. When developers use AI assistants like Cursor to review tickets, the assistant executes these hidden commands with elevated database privileges, potentially leaking sensitive data like OAuth tokens and user credentials. MORE

  • Google CTF 2025 Quals Writeup. Mystiz wrote two challenges for Google CTF qualifier: Underhanded and Merkurated. There were 17 and 37 solves during the contest time. MORE

πŸ’‘ Tips

  • Web developer Wes Bos asked Twitter for the best AI coding tips, sparking a thread full of practical advice from experienced developers. Key strategies include reading AI-generated code carefully, rolling back failed attempts instead of fixing forward, starting fresh conversations per feature, and treating AI prompts like you're guiding a junior developer with clear instructions and constraints. MORE

  • Git worktrees let you work on multiple branches simultaneously without switching contexts or stashing changes. This 5-minute tutorial shows how to boost your development workflow by creating separate working directories for each branch you're actively developing. MORE

  • Your Employer is Giving Your Salary Data to Equifax, and Equifax is Selling It. A massive Equifax database you've never heard of is collecting and selling your sensitive employment and income history. Here are the exact steps to see your file, freeze it, and take back control. MORE

🧠 Wisdom

  • Peter Wang explores how open source collaboration has shifted from community-driven development to corporate-dominated ecosystems, losing its original spirit of shared innovation. He argues for returning to grassroots collaboration models that prioritize developer autonomy and collective problem-solving over profit-driven agendas. MORE

  • Joan deleted 10,000 notes and 7 years of carefully organized thoughts from her "second brain" system, finding relief instead of loss. She argues that obsessive note-taking and knowledge management tools can actually hinder thinking by turning every experience into something to be filed rather than lived. MORE

  • Simon Willison argues that while LLMs are getting better at writing code, software developers shouldn't worry about job security. The real value lies in identifying problems worth solving and verifying solutions work β€” skills that require human expertise and judgment. MORE

  • Powerful scene of one of my favorite movies of all time: Good Will Hunting. MORE

πŸ“š Resources

  • Browser permissions control access to powerful features like camera and microphone, but misconfigurations can lead to permission hijacking attacks. This deep dive explains how permissions work, delegation pitfalls, and security risks developers should avoid. MORE

  • What the NULL?! Wing FTP Server RCE (CVE-2025-47812). The flaw exploits how the application handles usernames with null bytes, allowing injection of malicious Lua code into session files that gets executed when the session is loaded. MORE

  • Complete reverse engineering of the Atlassian ACLI Rovo Dev binary, including extracted source code, system prompts, and technical analysis. MORE

  • A comprehensive guide to essential tools and resources for learning client-side security testing and web application hacking techniques. Perfect for beginners wanting to understand browser-based vulnerabilities and build practical skills in ethical hacking. MORE

  • Reproducing a million-dollar bug: WhatsApp CVE-2019-11932 (with AFL & Frida). MORE

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