<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Vite 8 switches to Rust based Rolldown bundler</strong>: The Vite team has officially released version 8.0, replacing esbuild and Rollup with Rolldown, a new bundler written in Rust. This transition claims to deliver build speeds 10 to 30 times faster than Rollup while maintaining compatibility with the existing plugin ecosystem. The move aligns with a broader industry shift toward native-code tooling, as reported by The Register, aiming to eliminate the performance bottlenecks of JavaScript-based build steps. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mksK39aMS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GlassWorm malware hits Open VSX registry</strong>: Security researchers at Socket have identified over 72 malicious extensions on the Open VSX registry impersonating popular tools like ESLint, Prettier, and Claude Code. These extensions initially appear clean but later pull hidden dependencies containing the GlassWorm loader, which VS Code silently installs via its automatic dependency management. Developers are advised to audit their extension lists and restrict installations to verified publishers to avoid supply-chain compromise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yKzLDg3bN&amp;id=7qAB3XlzU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Temporal API reaches Stage 4 for ECMAScript 2026</strong>: After nearly a decade of development, the TC39 committee has advanced the Temporal API to Stage 4, officially marking the end of the problematic Date object. Temporal introduces immutable date and time types with built-in support for time zones and predictable arithmetic, solving long-standing developer pain points. Browser support is already live in Firefox and Chromium, with TypeScript 6.0 providing the necessary type definitions for immediate adoption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WsjtjDMl5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Avalonia 12.0 preview drops legacy .NET support</strong>: The new preview requires .NET 8 as a minimum, adds iOS scene delegate support, and enables compiled bindings by default for better performance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=I5gILgxNy&amp;id=RDfVaJWvK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Electron 41 adds ASAR integrity for macOS</strong>: The latest release includes Chromium 146 and introduces tamper detection at app launch via ASAR integrity digests to improve security on macOS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5DiYYKmIR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bcachefs 1.37 stabilizes erasure coding</strong>: The Linux filesystem has finalized its RAID-like redundancy features and improved recovery speeds for unclean shutdowns. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Nvzov0IYi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apache Spark 4.1 introduces millisecond real time mode</strong>: A new execution mode allows for ultra-low latency without abandoning the microbatch architecture, targeting fraud detection use cases. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HZjIecldG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JetBrains sunsets Code With Me collaboration tool</strong>: The built-in collaborative coding feature will be unbundled into a standalone plugin starting with the 2026.1 release before full deactivation in 2027. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3UKmL0NfO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 adds native custom CSS for blocks</strong>: The upcoming release allows per-block CSS injection via the inspector, scoped with unique hashes to prevent global style leakage. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3xregKloE&amp;id=L9qEHhgSw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Z80 Sans font disassembles opcodes via OpenType</strong>: A novel project uses OpenType substitution tables to turn a font into a functional Z80 disassembler that renders assembly mnemonics from hex code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NHBet6OKX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The 57 minute mobile game mirage</strong>: A developer used Claude and Codex to ‘build’ a mobile game in under an hour, only to realize the result was a soulless, boring idle game that nobody would actually play. It turns out that while AI is great at generating boilerplate React Native code, it still has the creative depth of a damp sponge. We’re successfully automating the production of digital landfill. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yDU0YQOtJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon blames users for AI induced outages</strong>: After internal AI tools like ‘Kuro’ and ‘Amazon Q’ deleted production environments and wiped 120,000 orders, Amazon’s brilliant solution was to blame ‘user error’ and mandate senior sign-offs. This comes right after laying off 16,000 engineers who actually knew how the systems worked. Using AI to supervise the AI that broke the system is the kind of recursive management logic that only a $200B budget can justify. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Nu2d4YyjL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The AI wrapper rejection at Google Atoms</strong>: Google and Accel’s latest accelerator rejected 70% of applicants because they were just ‘AI wrappers’—thin UI layers over ChatGPT that didn’t actually solve a problem. It seems the venture capital world is finally waking up to the fact that ‘putting a chatbot on it’ isn’t a business model. If your startup’s primary IP is a system prompt, you’re not an engineer; you’re a prompt enthusiast with a burn rate. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PcGN0Wquf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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