<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>PHP 8.5 introduces final promoted properties</strong>: PHP 8.5 is set to introduce support for final promoted properties, allowing developers to declare properties as <code>final</code> directly within the constructor parameter list. This feature prevents properties from being overridden in child classes, enhancing type safety and immutability. Additionally, Rector’s new SafeDeclareStrictTypesRector tool automatically adds <code>declare(strict_types=1)</code> to type-safe PHP files, enabling progressive adoption of strict types without breaking existing applications. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JdPljNIRt&amp;id=kUdzzN2H2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Figma integrates Claude Code for bidirectional design-code workflow</strong>: Figma now allows converting live code interfaces from Claude Code into editable Figma designs, enabling a bidirectional workflow between code-first exploration and collaborative canvas-based design. This integration, facilitated by a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) feature, lets designers and developers capture UIs from production or localhost and paste them as editable frames in Figma, promising enhanced collaboration and efficiency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=iBUqWA8OS&amp;id=jwuzwzVmy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding agents shift focus to verification</strong>: AI-assisted programming is fundamentally changing software development, moving the bottleneck from writing code to specifying outcomes and verifying results. This shift emphasizes Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for defining desired behaviors. Modern testing now integrates continuously into CI/CD pipelines with API-first approaches and risk-based strategies, crucial for managing the complexities introduced by microservices, distributed systems, and AI features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ZrBLHCGzU&amp;id=slDsx1BWP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust gains traction in desktop GUI and WebAssembly</strong>: Rust is seeing increased adoption in desktop GUI frameworks, WGPU for graphics, and WebAssembly with memory64, offering superior memory efficiency and strong FFI capabilities, making it a compelling choice for performant applications and AI code generation validation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cSIn1S3oJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Android 17 introduces lock-free MessageQueue</strong>: Android 17 features DeliQueue, a new lock-free MessageQueue implementation that eliminates UI thread lock contention, resulting in 4% fewer missed frames and 9.1% faster app startup times at the 95th percentile. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KWMcNe91A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Web platform features reach baseline status</strong>: December 2025 saw several web platform features, including Event Timing API, CSS scrollbar-color, and CSS @scope, achieve Baseline status, indicating broader cross-browser support for important web APIs and styling capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MCpuVh68U" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vercel improves runtime logs export</strong>: Vercel has enhanced its runtime logs export feature to stream logs directly to browsers, eliminating buffering delays and allowing immediate downloads of up to 10,000 requests for standard users and 100,000 for Observability Plus subscribers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XWbwRuy1V" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub API for billing usage reports in public preview</strong>: GitHub introduced a new REST API for enterprise administrators to programmatically request and download billing usage reports in CSV format, automating access to data previously only available via the UI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kHtdtQBlk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 optimizes close_range system call</strong>: Linux 7.0 introduces an optimization for the <code>close_range</code> system call, reducing its complexity from O(range size) to O(active file descriptors) by using <code>find_next_bit()</code> on the <code>open_fds</code> bitmap, significantly speeding up operations on sparse file descriptor tables. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IrhD5aAX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wix bridges Iceberg data warehouses with microservices</strong>: Wix developed a Data-to-Production (D2P) platform to serve petabyte-scale Iceberg data with millisecond latency to production microservices, featuring a three-layer architecture for metadata governance, dynamic ingestion, and type-safe Scala serving. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kdA4JLdUN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-resistant tech jobs: The only ones left?</strong>: Apparently, ‘architecture and system design skills’ are the ‘only tech jobs that survive AI,’ according to an article titled ‘The Only Tech Job That Survives AI.’ Because, you know, AI is going to automate everything else, but it will definitely stop short of integrating platforms, evaluating vendor solutions, and negotiating contracts. Good to know our future is secure if we just become glorified project managers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/smOggDoX8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding assistants: Overhyped but secretly useful</strong>: AI coding assistants are ‘widely criticized as overhyped’ but the author of ‘The Most Overhyped Tech Trend in 2026 That I’m Secretly Using Anyway’ finds them useful for ‘unglamorous tasks’ like boilerplate and automating GitHub release pipelines. So, it’s overhyped, but also, I’m using it to save time. Just admit it’s useful and move on, nobody cares if you’re cool enough to hate AI anymore. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=CBxVjaadg&amp;id=urOGgKvla" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Developers need to speak ROI or get replaced by no-code</strong>: Developers, listen up! You need to ‘speak ROI or get replaced by no-code,’ because apparently, business managers are flocking to tools like Dragonfly that ‘speak their language.’ So, your years of technical expertise and crafting elegant solutions mean nothing if you can’t justify your existence in dollar signs. Better start practicing your elevator pitch for why that refactor is worth more than a drag-and-drop interface. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C1KISrsmg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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