--- title: Best Awesome posts — August 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from August 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/08 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/08 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Awesome posts — August 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from August 2026, 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 — August 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/tech-companies-are-quietly-hiring-again-td9b5onhs "Tech companies are quietly hiring again") Video Awesome · 5w Tech companies are quietly hiring again Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon made headlines with massive layoffs while simultaneously hiring thousands in strategic areas, resulting in net headcount increases. The narrative that AI is replacing workers en masse is contradicted by data: Google added 16,000 net employees over three years and Meta added 8,000\. The layoffs largely reflect post-COVID over-hiring corrections rebranded as AI transformation. Amazon's internal AI projects illustrate the hidden costs of agentic systems — one project exceeded its budget by 860%, accumulating $1.8M in costs before anyone noticed. The piece argues that much enterprise AI spending is fear-driven experimentation rather than proven productivity gains, and that companies are now rediscovering the value of human workers, including junior employees, to deploy and supervise AI systems. A Toyota case study from 2014 illustrates the danger of automating away the learning process itself. 99 14 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/we-are-forgetting-how-to-write-good-software-xqyqr94w6 "We are forgetting how to write good software") Video Awesome · 4w We are forgetting how to write good software An overview of Tiger Style, the coding philosophy behind TigerBeetle, the financial transactions database, exploring its priority order of safety, performance, then developer experience. Covers explicit limits on queues and buffers, fixed integer widths over architecture-dependent types like usize, avoiding dynamic allocation after startup, heavy use of assertions, batching, cache-conscious data layout, single-threaded transaction processing to avoid contention, minimizing data copying in hot paths, converting non-deterministic inputs (like time) into deterministic ones, and a zero technical debt policy. The piece frames these low-level engineering disciplines as a contrast to the current 'vibe coding' and agentic development trend. 49 18 [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/2026/08#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/08","name":"Best Awesome Posts — August 2026","description":"The most upvoted Awesome posts from August 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/08#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tech-companies-are-quietly-hiring-again-td9b5onhs","name":"Tech companies are quietly hiring again"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/we-are-forgetting-how-to-write-good-software-xqyqr94w6","name":"We are forgetting how to write good software"}]},{"@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":"August 2026"}]}]} ```