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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Rust in the Linux kernel and OpenBLAS optimizations</strong>: Linux kernel developers have decided against directly porting C’s <code>READ_ONCE()</code> and <code>WRITE_ONCE()</code> macros to Rust, opting instead for Rust’s Atomic module with explicit memory-ordering semantics. This aims for clearer intent but creates different concurrency approaches between C and Rust code, potentially complicating maintenance. Meanwhile, OpenBLAS 0.3.31 has been released, bringing significant performance enhancements and new extensions, particularly for RISC-V and ARM64 architectures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=HzOMjNSLX&amp;id=f2VmigSkT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Go 1.26 RC2 released with security fixes</strong>: Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2 is out, addressing security vulnerabilities in the <code>archive/zip</code> and <code>Request.ParseForm</code> modules. Identical security updates are also available for Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12. This update, reported by Golang Weekly, ensures critical fixes are applied across recent Go versions, though specific details on the nature or severity of the vulnerabilities were not disclosed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DFYbtJ1rQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TSMC sees endless AI chip demand</strong>: TSMC reported record Q4 earnings for 2025, with revenue up 25.5% year-over-year, and forecasts 30% revenue growth for 2026, driven by what CEO C.C. Wei calls “endless” demand for AI chips. The company plans $52-56 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, with most of it going to advanced 7nm and smaller process nodes, including a rapid ramp-up of 2nm manufacturing, as detailed in their official financial reporting. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/aTc9ls9yL" 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 Go fork for legacy Windows support</strong>: A new fork of the Go programming language, <code>syncguy/go-legacy-winxp</code>, has emerged to maintain compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, along with the deprecated <code>go get</code> behavior, by reverting several upstream commits that broke support for these older systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/t4QSajrgl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ArkType brings type-safe regex to TypeScript</strong>: ArkType has introduced ArkRegex, a new library that provides full type inference for regular expressions in TypeScript, offering compile-time validation for regex syntax and features without runtime overhead, making it a drop-in replacement for JavaScript’s native RegExp constructor. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jWetO2vFP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wild 0.8 linker adds SFrame and LoongArch64 support</strong>: The Rust-based Wild 0.8 linker has been released, featuring SFrame support for stack unwinding, compatibility with the LoongArch64 architecture, and general performance improvements, continuing its focus on fast iterative development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pphagjLk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot gets agentic memory</strong>: GitHub Copilot now has an agentic memory feature in public preview for all paid plans, allowing it to learn and retain repository-specific insights to improve the relevance and quality of its coding assistance, with memories expiring after 28 days. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nCmOnsQS3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare boosts resilience, acquires Astro</strong>: Cloudflare launched ‘Code Orange: Fail Small,’ a new resilience plan with phased configuration rollouts and automatic rollbacks to prevent global outages, and also acquired Astro Technology Company, an open-source framework for content-centric websites, which will remain MIT-licensed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OdNHxfcwg&amp;id=Q4Q57JyYL&amp;id=yRAOJZmiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse, launches Postgres service</strong>: ClickHouse acquired Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, to enhance its AI application monitoring capabilities, and also launched a native Postgres service in partnership with Ubicloud, aiming to unify transactional and analytical workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BqVJ6XPkS&amp;id=Ycyvr9ct2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open source database tools released</strong>: Portabase, a new self-hosted backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, has been released with Rust-refactored agents for better performance, alongside credcheck v4.4, a PostgreSQL extension that fixes a backend crash and enforces credential rules. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5HNbhZxB9&amp;id=7mmyYg2vc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools: faster, but still needs a human to clean up the mess</strong>: A developer proudly announced using Claude AI to build a Python CLI tool in an hour instead of a day. Great, but then admitted Claude couldn’t handle a robust resume function, requiring manual implementation. So, AI makes you faster at the easy stuff, but you still need a human to do the actual hard, reliable engineering. What a shocker. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SqdiiasJQ&amp;id=YfWBhNQB7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microservices are killing your performance, but hey, team autonomy!</strong>: Apparently, microservices introduce 1,000-5,000x latency compared to in-process calls, leading to 50-150% higher latency, 300% more resource usage, and 2-3x infrastructure costs. But don’t worry, they solve ‘organizational problems’ like team autonomy. Because nothing says ‘robust, performant system’ like sacrificing everything for the sake of feeling independent. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OC7oxM66D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated code: looks good, but architecturally bankrupt</strong>: AI-generated SwiftUI code might look pretty, but it’s often an architectural mess, lacking intentional design decisions. The big lesson? Define your ownership patterns and design flows <em>before</em> letting the AI churn out code. Otherwise, you’ll be refactoring hardened assumptions instead of just fixing simple bugs. Who knew thinking before coding was still a thing? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nLHgst6Y1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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