<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are changing how we code and design</strong>: AI is fundamentally transforming development, with tools like Google’s Gemini 3 Flash gaining ‘Agentic Vision’ for interactive image analysis, and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 offering open-source multimodal capabilities for coding and automation. According to TechCrunch, even design is getting a node-based AI overhaul with Flora raising $42M to create media assets from text, image, or video inputs. This means less manual coding and design, and more high-level problem-solving and orchestration, as noted by Andrej Karpathy’s shift to 80% AI-assisted coding. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=KIgS0LnaZ&amp;id=6Szzft8Kv&amp;id=wpUJ9mXip&amp;id=vRs04mdPH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust continues its march into critical infrastructure</strong>: WhatsApp has replaced 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of Rust in its media handling stack, deploying the Kaleidoscope library to validate media files and prevent malware exploits across billions of users. This marks the largest global deployment of Rust code for a consumer application to date. Additionally, the Linux kernel project is considering integrating Klint, a Rust-based linting tool, to improve code quality and memory safety, as reported in the RFC patches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2YIPmtHiF&amp;id=RgFFWztiy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The EU is getting serious about digital sovereignty</strong>: The European Union is fast-tracking its Iris2 satellite constellation, aiming for initial operations by 2029 to reduce reliance on non-EU systems like Starlink. France is also replacing US videoconferencing platforms with a state-built solution, Visio, for its public sector by 2027, citing concerns over foreign jurisdiction and aiming for €1 million in annual savings. Meanwhile, the European Commission is consulting on a new open-source strategy to scale EU projects and strengthen technological independence, with GitHub encouraging community feedback. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=wWPJZv6x1&amp;id=S7j2fb8MP&amp;id=IteNH1GsU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>New tools for React Native iOS widgets and state sync</strong>: Callstack released Voltra, allowing React Native developers to build iOS widgets and Live Activities with React Native syntax, and Brownie, a state-sharing library for integrating React Native into existing native apps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MEPDreukD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 brings customizable mobile navigation</strong>: WordPress 7.0 is introducing customizable navigation overlays for mobile sites, giving users and developers full control over menu design using blocks and patterns, with a community test phase open until February 9, 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/43JljYXfy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JavaScript gets a native compiler and new CLI language</strong>: A new language called Script compiles JavaScript and TypeScript to native machine code using LLVM and Cranelift, promising significant speedups, while ‘t’ is a new CLI utility aiming to replace traditional Unix text processing tools like grep and sed with a concise, single-character operator syntax. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PpJc9MwUl&amp;id=bx796fHrY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Docker controller automates Cloudflare Tunnel sync</strong>: A new Docker controller, ‘docker-cloudflare-tunnel-sync’, automates the synchronization of Cloudflare Tunnel routes, DNS records, and Access rules using container labels, monitoring Docker events in real-time to expose and remove services automatically. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mXmVkLhBe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Xfce is getting a Rust-based Wayland compositor</strong>: Xfce developers are funding the creation of Xfwl4, a new Wayland compositor written in Rust and built on the Smithay library, aiming for improved memory safety, variable refresh rates, and better multi-monitor support, with a first development release scheduled for mid-2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=f6P6uC82l&amp;id=96AM3XRbN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New terminal UI tool for process and log management</strong>: Overitall (oit) is a new terminal UI tool that combines process management with advanced log viewing, offering interactive log filtering, trace detection, and integration with VS Code and AI assistants like Claude. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DkhXBDdU9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud launches new ARM-based instances</strong>: Google Cloud has released N4A compute instances powered by custom Axion ARM CPUs, offering up to 64 vCPUs and 512GB RAM, targeting web servers, microservices, and containerized applications with claims of improved performance and cost-effectiveness over previous generations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JvBjVyZ5U" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-generated code: fast, but not furious about quality</strong>: Apparently, AI coding agents are great at churning out code quickly, but not so much at making it, you know, <em>good</em>. According to <a href="http://fast.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">fast.ai</a>, this ‘vibe coding’ leads to a ‘false sense of productivity’ and piles up technical debt with non-idiomatic, overly complex, and subtly buggy code. So much for AI replacing us all; looks like we’re still stuck cleaning up its messes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=uilUGnhp4&amp;id=fPZ532s1X" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare’s ‘serverless’ Matrix homeserver: more like ‘broken’ serverless</strong>: Cloudflare proudly announced a ‘serverless’ Matrix homeserver on Workers, touting zero operational overhead and post-quantum crypto. But Matrix developers are calling it ‘fundamentally broken,’ lacking basic security features like authorization and state resolution. Apparently, it’s also more expensive than a dedicated VPS and ‘appears AI-generated.’ So much for revolutionary; sounds like a glorified demo that doesn’t actually work. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=vURH9h7xw&amp;id=93HDTbjA4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cursor’s AI browser: built from ‘scratch’ or just ‘spaghetti’?</strong>: Cursor claimed its AI agents built a web browser with millions of lines of code and a custom Rust rendering engine ‘from scratch.’ Developers, however, quickly found the code to be ‘spaghetti,’ unable to compile, and heavily reliant on existing projects. It seems ‘AI software engineering breakthrough’ translates to ‘marketing hype’ when the code itself is a hot mess. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/gcgtwbk5H" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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