<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI introduces AI-driven harness engineering</strong>: OpenAI has unveiled “Harness Engineering,” an internal methodology using Codex agents for large-scale software development, including code generation, testing, and CI workflows. A five-month experiment reportedly shipped a beta product with one million lines of code, all generated without manual source code. This shifts the engineering role to designing environments and specifying intent, with structured feedback via declarative prompts, as highlighted by OpenAI and Martin Fowler. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dPCNsAxds" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare R2 local uploads reduce latency</strong>: Cloudflare launched “Local Uploads” for its R2 object storage, now in open beta, which can cut cross-region write latency by up to 75%. Data is written to the nearest Cloudflare PoP and then asynchronously replicated to the bucket’s home region, making objects immediately accessible. This feature aims to boost upload performance for geographically distributed workloads, similar to AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration but with a different underlying mechanism, according to Cloudflare. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XbGrpoJDs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare outage impacts BYOIP service</strong>: Cloudflare experienced a 6-hour outage affecting its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service due to a software bug in a cleanup task. An API query error caused approximately 1,100 BGP prefixes to be unintentionally withdrawn from the network. The incident, which also briefly impacted one.one.one.one, required a complex recovery process involving customer self-remediation and manual database recovery, as detailed in Cloudflare’s post-mortem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hy3FNhBxD" 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 community discusses AI coding tools</strong>: Steve Klabnik, author of the Rust Book, shared his evolving views on AI coding tools, emphasizing context engineering over prompt engineering for effective LLM use. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZE7frc5Zs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL 19 allows per-process logging</strong>: PostgreSQL 19 introduces the ability to configure <code>log_min_messages</code> per process type, allowing DBAs to target verbose debug logging for specific backend processes without flooding all logs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jFpuJ6YrS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Structured concurrency in Go</strong>: A deep dive into structured concurrency in Go explains how to achieve patterns similar to Python’s <code>asyncio.TaskGroup</code> and Kotlin’s <code>coroutineScope</code> using <code>errgroup</code>, <code>WaitGroup</code>, and <code>context</code>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2zOi0Da7K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Datastar simplifies modern web development</strong>: Datastar is an 11 KB backend-driven hypermedia framework that unifies HTMX and Alpine.js functionalities, using Server-Sent Events for real-time push updates without WebSockets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GKcflwWUw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS enables event-driven architectures for RDS SQL server</strong>: AWS now allows Lambda function triggers directly from RDS for SQL Server database events, enabling event-driven architectures using stored procedures and CloudWatch Logs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KzhIuYzeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ghostty 1.3 to add scrollbar support</strong>: Ghostty 1.3.0 will introduce scrollbar support, a highly requested feature for the terminal emulator, along with a command palette session search and tab renaming on Linux. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AthQk05VJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ward: a new Laravel security scanner in Go</strong>: Ward is an open-source security scanner for Laravel projects, built in Go, that performs static analysis to report vulnerabilities across various severity levels. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dji7is7Et" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>EFF cracks the AI slop problem, apparently</strong>: The EFF updated its open-source policy, requiring contributors to understand AI-assisted code and ensure human-authored comments. They claim this sidesteps the “unsolvable AI-detection problem” by shifting accountability upstream. So, instead of detecting AI, we just trust developers to be honest and then spot-check them like a tax audit. Revolutionary. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W3yzAhjLd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI promotes local Codex meetups</strong>: OpenAI is promoting community meetups for Codex developers to “create and ship projects.” This is framed as a community-building effort, which is adorable. Because nothing says community like getting together to build projects using a proprietary AI model that you don’t own and whose future is entirely controlled by a single corporation. Totally not a vendor lock-in strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kpaXVeVV9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google VP warns about AI startup models</strong>: A Google Cloud VP is warning that AI startups relying on thin LLM wrappers or aggregation are doomed, comparing them to early AWS resellers. He’s bullish on “vibe coding platforms” and direct-to-consumer AI tools. So, basically, if you’re not building the next big thing that Google might acquire or crush, you’re doing it wrong. Thanks for the insightful, totally unbiased advice, Google. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/djwfpUzVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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