Agree, very user-hostile move.

Just spent 30m moving my repos to GitLab, and will be slowly moving to self-hosted Forgejo.

www.nushell.sh/book/#this-b...

Very interesting, a shell and programming language that works on structured data. Will be trying it out.

www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP...

VS Code tip: make Markdown files open in Preview by default.

Add this to settings.json:

"workbench.editorAssociations": {
"*.md": "vscode.markdown.preview.editor"
}

Handy if you mostly read docs instead of editing raw Markdown.

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co. You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Not surprised by the US, but what the hell was the FCDO doing? What’s the point of the foreign office if you can’t protect your own citizens when they’re being illegally detained in a foreign country?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Okay, let's try this again in a more sensible way.

Software devs and engineering leaders, in your estimation, does AI-assisted and agentic coding make engineering discipline:

* More important than before (Boost)
* As important as before (Like)
* Less important than before (Bookmark)

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02...

Those who have been using AI coding tools and agents for the past few months already know this. It's essential for leaders and management to understand this as well to temper expectations.

Matt Shumer on X: "Something Big Is Happening" / X Something Big Is Happening

x.com/mattshumer_/...

Signs your boss has been using AI agents too much...

The Pinhole View of AI Value Focusing only on headcount reduction is like saying the only value of a car is that you don’t have to pay for a horse.

open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirs...

The Seven Laws of Rules Rules, Competence and Trust: The Hidden Cost of Rules

open.substack.com/pub/mdalmijn...

The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code

addyo.substack.com/p/the-80-pro...

Amazing insights. Perfectly puts into words many "intuitions" I've been having

hacker-laws.com

Names for laws we all learn the hard way

Build your own React We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

pomb.us/build-your-o...

John Lanchester · For Every Winner a Loser: What is finance for? In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adaptive Architectures - Building API Layers that Build Themselves • Marty Pitt • YOW! 2024 YouTube video by GOTO Conferences

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bO2...

So true ... we spend a huge amount of time writing glue code for integrations. Another takeaway (not explicit in the video) is that it pushes you to think about business domains and map data models across them in a codified way.

Great talk!

Understand the Next Phase of Web Development - Steve Sanderson - NDC London 2024 YouTube video by NDC Conferences

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ta...

Fast-paced, highly instructive intro to the next phase of web development involving front-end frameworks extending themselves to server-side rendering, as well as WebAssembly and WASI

#software_engineering #web_development

Just discovered chesskit.org
Chess.com style analysis (which I prefer slightly over lichess.org 's version )

#chess

Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong Jon Topper explains 10 common mistakes in building SaaS platforms, including not baking in tenancy from day one and failing to automate tenant provisioning. He shares strategies to mitigate risk, such...

www.infoq.com/presentation...

Some very useful takeaways from this presentation

What Really Happens in a Board Meeting Demystifying Board Meetings: A CTO's Perspective

open.substack.com/pub/kevingol...

‎Minute Cryptic ‎Introduce a cryptic riddle into your day. Minute Cryptic is the fun, free and easy way to get up to speed with cryptic crossword clues - a puzzle style loved and obsessed over by solvers for over 100...

A friend recently recommended apps.apple.com/gb/app/minut...

Loving it so far. Cryptic crosswords have always felt out of reach but now doing one a day with an explanation makes it so much more accessible.

This seems to be exactly what I was looking for, will give it a spin today and report back

Slowloris DDoS attack The slowloris attack attempts to overwhelm a targeted server by opening and maintaining many simultaneous HTTP connections to the target.

TIL about the Slowloris DDos attack www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learni...

#til #cybersecurity

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra Chapter 1: Row vs column picture

www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustr...