--- title: Best Awesome posts — November 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from November 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2025/11 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2025/11 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Awesome posts — November 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from November 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Awesome — November 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/life-lessons-from-a-coding-legend--uj6lsmcmv "Life lessons from a coding legend...") Video Awesome · 44w Life lessons from a coding legend... Linus Torvalds' criticism of a Meta engineer's pull request sparked debate about code quality and software development culture. The incident highlights a fundamental principle: code clarity trumps abstraction. Torvalds criticized unnecessary helper functions that add indirection without value, arguing that good code should be explicit and easy to understand. The discussion reveals how industry best practices around abstraction can sometimes conflict with simplicity, and how experienced developers often favor straightforward, readable code over clever abstractions. The incident also contrasts old-school programming culture, built on deep technical knowledge and excellence, with modern development practices. 240 12 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/good-software-doesn-t-matter-anymore--uwi09kpqx "Good software doesn't matter anymore...") Video Awesome · 43w Good software doesn't matter anymore... Meta replaced WhatsApp's native Windows app with a web-based version that consumes 1-3 GB of RAM compared to the previous 20-100 MB. This shift reflects a broader industry trend where companies prioritize cross-platform web solutions over native development, despite significant performance degradation. The move signals that desktop platforms are becoming afterthoughts, software quality is declining in favor of development speed and cost reduction, and the industry is normalizing poor performance as hardware capabilities increase. 114 15 [See all Awesome archives](/sources/awesome-coding/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2025/11#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2025/11","name":"Best Awesome Posts — November 2025","description":"The most upvoted Awesome posts from November 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2025/11#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/life-lessons-from-a-coding-legend--uj6lsmcmv","name":"Life lessons from a coding legend..."},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/good-software-doesn-t-matter-anymore--uwi09kpqx","name":"Good software doesn't matter anymore..."}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Awesome","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"November 2025"}]}]} ```