--- title: Best Fireship posts — October 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Fireship posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/fireship/best-of/2025/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/fireship/best-of/2025/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Fireship posts — October 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Fireship posts from October 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 Fireship — October 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/apple-and-google-won-t-like-this--p5bev0mtp "Apple and Google won’t like this...") Video Fireship · 47w Apple and Google won’t like this... The Free Software Foundation announced the Libriophone project, led by Rob Savois, aiming to create a fully open-source smartphone by replacing all proprietary firmware, drivers, and binary blobs with free software alternatives. Unlike existing solutions like LineageOS that still contain proprietary code, this initiative seeks complete software freedom through reverse engineering. The project faces significant challenges including the massive technical undertaking of replacing closed-source components, limited historical adoption of similar efforts like Replicant, and the dominant Apple-Google duopoly that controls mobile ecosystems. 183 22 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/us-east-1-is-humanity-s-weakest-link--bglydvoi0 "US-EAST-1 is humanity’s weakest link…") Video Fireship · 46w US-EAST-1 is humanity’s weakest link… A major AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread service disruptions across thousands of companies including Netflix, Reddit, and PlayStation. The root cause was a DNS resolution failure affecting API endpoints, particularly DynamoDB, which cascaded into serverless job queues. The incident highlights the risks of centralized cloud infrastructure dependency and the challenges of single-provider reliance even with availability zones designed for redundancy. 122 18 [See all Fireship archives](/sources/fireship/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/fireship/best-of/2025/10#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/fireship/best-of/2025/10","name":"Best Fireship Posts — October 2025","description":"The most upvoted Fireship posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/fireship/best-of/2025/10#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/apple-and-google-won-t-like-this--p5bev0mtp","name":"Apple and Google won’t like this..."},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/us-east-1-is-humanity-s-weakest-link--bglydvoi0","name":"US-EAST-1 is humanity’s weakest link…"}]},{"@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":"Fireship","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/fireship"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/fireship/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"October 2025"}]}]} ```