I also split out my favorite readings and discovered tools into a separate "Personal Discoveries" post.
Everything from compound engineering patterns to new AI dev tools to UI polish techniques.
Discoveries 👇
agustinusnathaniel.substack.com/p/february-a...
Other launches worth knowing:
→ Module Federation 2.0 stable
→ Expo SDK 55 drops Legacy Architecture
→ Zero 1.0 sync engine (Linear-style)
→ Drizzle
→ PlanetScale
JavaScript tooling had its biggest month in years:
→ Vite 8 + Rolldown = 10-30x faster builds
→ VoidZero shipped the full toolchain (dev → deploy)
→ TypeScript 6.0 breaking defaults
→ Next.js 16.2 release
Feb/Mar 2026 tech roundup is live 🧵
AI model wars went into overdrive:
→ Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex & GPT-5.4
→ Anthropic had agents build a 100k-line C compiler
→ "Agentic engineering" replaced "vibe coding"
Roundup 👇
agustinusnathaniel.substack.com/p/february-a...
Sat down and wrote the lessons I’m currently trying to live by at 27.
🔗 27 Life Lessons at 27
agustinusnathaniel.com/blog/life-le...
Published January 2026 Roundup 🚀
- Ralph Wiggum Technique
- Agent Skills exploding everywhere
- Astro 6 Beta + team joins Cloudflare
- openclaw goes viral
- Kimi K2.5 multimodal beast
+ personal finds
open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
[Announcement] I decided to streamline domains I owned:
- spoker.dev -> spoker.sznm.dev
- sznm.link -> link.sznm.dev
Conclusion:
- spoker.dev will still work until mid-2026
- sznm.link is already removed
Published Nov–Dec 2025 Roundup (catch-up after a rest break) 🚀
- Canva makes Affinityfree
- Gemini 3 multimodal beast
- bun joins AnthropicAI
- vite_js 8 Beta (Rolldown speed)
- Workspace Studio agents
Check it out:
open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
Published October 2025 Roundup 🚀
- React.js 19.2 and new Foundation home,
- Open AI Sora 2, AgentKit, Atlas
- Next.js 16 release,
- Vercel Bun runtime support
- Cursor 2.0
and more gems
Check it out:
open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
EV but Manual?! 🚀
youtu.be/DE2oDKguy3Q
Vite: Beyond a Build Tool by @evanyou.me
youtu.be/x7Jsmt_o9ek
Great introduction on Vite Plus
Published September 2025 Roundup 🚀
- Gluestack UI v3
- Atlassian acquires The Browser Company
- Expo SDK 54 + Router v6: Hybrid apps just got snappier
- Alibaba's Qwen3-Next
- xAI's Grok 4 Fast: Frontier smarts on a budget
- and many more ✨
Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
Been a long time not publishing blog to my site 😅
New blog post: A Practical Guide to Data Standards for Seamless Collaboration and Integrity ⚡️
Here are the simple standards that keep things predictable 👇
agustinusnathaniel.com/blog/data-st...
This covers all use cases—open sharing, selective sharing, or high privacy—without forcing users to micromanage every new contact. WhatsApp, take notes! Telegram’s had this figured out for years.
#UXDesign #WhatsApp #Telegram #Privacy
Telegram nails it with a flexible, user-first design. It lets you:
1. Share with everyone, but add exceptions for who’s blocked.
2. Share only with contacts, with options to block specific people or always allow others.
3. Hide from everyone, but allow select trusted contacts.
[UX Critic] WhatsApp privacy controls for profile pictures are outdated and clunky. Defaulting to a “block list” (selecting who can’t see your picture) is risky—if you add a new contact and forget to update the list, they’ll see it by default. This approach feels backward.
👀👀🤔
Should I upgrade now?
Published the July 2025 Roundup 🚀
- Dorsey's Bitchat: Offline P2P chat on BLE
- NuxtLabs teams up with Vercel
- Grok 4 from xAI crushes reasoning benchmarks
- Kimi K2: Open-source 1T param MoE monster
- Wan 2.2: Video AI gets cinematic and accessible
Full deets here—what's your take?
Figma is going public today (31 July). Here's their tech stack, at a high-level, from the deepdive with CTO Kris Rasmussen in The Pragmatic Engineer back in 2023:
The full deepdive on how Figma operates from an engineering point of view: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-fig...
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- Smart - added functionality to analyze and apply the optimum compression parameters for the image (will consider to open the parameter input to give more flexibility, but for now the app able to determine it automatically)
Check it out here: zippy.sznm.dev
Zippy - image compression app
Browser based image compression
- Secure - no image are being uploaded to a remote object storage / server
- Fast - all process happens on client device
Experiment app: meal-app.sznm.dev
Also used this experiment to also try out IntentUI, really neat UI components 🚀
>>cont.
- file-based router with automatic route config generation through bundler
- granular control on preloading, pending duration
- SSR and upgradeable to tanstack start
The list still goes on...(maybe) gonna cover it in upcoming blog / newsletter post
@tanstack.com Router is awesome. Just tried it out with small app experiment.
- First class search params handling (no need nuqs etc)
- end to end type safety (routes, loaders, search params, etc)
- Data fetching: has built in loader and first class support with react-query (obviously)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLji...
