<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Apple silicon and apfel unlock local AI</strong>: Apple’s long-term hardware strategy has culminated in the M5’s GPU-embedded neural accelerators, creating a massive gap between hardware capability and current developer implementation. To bridge this, the new open-source CLI tool apfel provides direct access to macOS Tahoe’s built-in language models via an OpenAI-compatible local server. This enables private, zero-latency inference on the Mac’s Neural Engine without external API dependencies or subscriptions, as reported by various technical deep dives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VuypgGktt&amp;id=YklInVgqT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub refactors diff rendering for massive PRs</strong>: GitHub engineering successfully overhauled their pull request ‘Files Changed’ tab to handle 10,000+ line diffs without crashing the browser. By reducing React component overhead by 74% and implementing TanStack Virtual for windowing, they dropped memory usage by 50% and improved Interaction to Next Paint (INP) by nearly 80%. The transition from scattered useEffect hooks to top-level event delegation highlights a shift back toward native DOM efficiency for high-performance web apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DMKgp6Vib" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta patches Linux kernel to fix TCP throttling</strong>: A new patch submitted by Meta engineers addresses a flaw in the Linux kernel’s vmpressure system that unnecessarily throttles network throughput. The issue occurs when high-order memory fragmentation triggers false memory pressure signals, even when free memory is available. The fix makes the kernel order-aware, ensuring socket pressure is only applied during genuine low-memory states, preventing artificial bottlenecks in high-performance networking environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cG7lwrIeI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Kilo Code launches production ready VS Code extension</strong>: The rebuilt extension features a portable core shared with their CLI, supporting parallel tool calls and sub-agent delegation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/i3oAoFhPq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Biome reduces pre commit hooks from 27s to 1.8s</strong>: A case study shows a 92% speed improvement by replacing the ESLint and Prettier stack with Biome’s Rust-based engine in large monorepos. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fsuVXtmDX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel releases open source Cloud CLI</strong>: Built with Laravel Zero, the new tool allows full environment, database, and deployment management directly from the terminal with JSON output for CI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/29f1QCAw3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tree sitter grammar revolutionizes R development</strong>: New Rust-based tooling leveraging Tree-sitter is providing R developers with faster linting, structural diffing, and better LSP support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xQoTxzSey" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Self hosted movie archive with React and SQLite</strong>: A new privacy-focused media manager uses React 19 and Express with automated SQLite backups and TMDb integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/969dZzH5L" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab CI vs GitHub Actions deep dive</strong>: A 12-dimension comparison highlights GitLab’s lead in integrated DevSecOps versus GitHub’s superior event-driven ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/c58soj6ej" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dokploy offers a lightweight self hosted PaaS</strong>: Solo developers are increasingly using Dokploy on single VPS instances to manage Docker-based production stacks with Traefik and Let’s Encrypt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nmgqhV2RM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The vertical AI pivot is just the new wrapper</strong>: Alex CloudStar claims ‘AI wrappers are dead’ and developers must build ‘Vertical AI’ with proprietary data moats to survive. In reality, this is just rebranding the same thin integration layer with a more expensive sales cycle, ignoring that the underlying models are still commoditizing the very ‘logic’ these startups claim to own. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JEAdPfYqt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic ecological models are a confidence interval nightmare</strong>: A peer-reviewed study found that AI agents can produce ‘convincing’ fisheries models that are logically broken but look professionally formatted. It’s the ultimate ‘hallucination for experts’ where the agent gets the mortality sequencing wrong but the R code runs perfectly, leading to confidently incorrect scientific conclusions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wIlZtu6iX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The developer as a factory worker narrative</strong>: The Serious CTO argues that writing code without business context makes you a ‘factory worker’ and that software is a ‘liability.’ While the sentiment is fine, the solution—more ‘investment reports’ and ‘quality conversations’—is just a recipe for more middle-management meetings that prevent actual engineering from happening. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/z80At6eoi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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