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Awesome Agent Skills: 49 Skills for Better AI-Assisted Coding

By @khasky [ 7 Min read ] Learn how to install and use Awesome Agent Skills with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor to improve AI-assisted development workflows. Read More.

20 Best Open-Source AI Decision Models You Can Run Locally in 2026

By @thomascherickal [ 37 Min read ] 20 Local Decision Models that run locally free, and most of them before better than the original Jev. Read More.

My Claude Code Workflow: Lessons From Rebuilding a Website in Two Days

By @alexcloudstar [ 14 Min read ] I rebuilt my site on Next.js 16 with Claude Code in 2 days. The line count hides what mattered: constraints, tests, small merges, and what to build. Read More.

Architecting AI-SDLC: Five Lessons For DevSecFinOps Teams

By @krishnaduttpanchagnula [ 4 Min read ] Using AI in enterprises is challenging due to issues like cognitive debt, unpredictable token consumption, and the need for strict governance. Read More.

AI Agents Are Killing the Git Client, Not Git: What Anthropic's Scion and Cursor's Origin Show

By @pairprogramming [ 30 Min read ] Anthropic replaced Git with Scion; Cursor launched Origin. Why AI agents make the Git client obsolete, which orgs should leave Git, and what GitHub must do. Read More.

Why I Ditched Google Drive for Syncthing and Tailscale

By @nfrankel [ 8 Min read ] Tired of Google Drive sync issues? Here's how I built a private password database sync system using Syncthing, Tailscale, and Synology. Read More.

Is Software Really Dead? The Rise of AI-Powered Reverse Engineering

By @mendoncamaria [ 7 Min read ] An open-source tool called REA hit 100,000 GitHub stars in days. Here's what it does, the good and bad it's causing, and why the regulation fight is messy. Read More.

The Ghost of Columbia Still Haunts Starship's Heat Shield

By @zbruceli [ 19 Min read ] A chunk of foam doomed Columbia because its heat shield had no backup. Starship's answer: a steel hull, 18,000 pinned hexagonal tiles, and an ablative layer. Read More.

8 Python Libraries That Made My AI Agents Actually Work

By @paoloap [ 5 Min read ] 8 production-tested Python libraries that replace hundreds of lines of custom code. LiteLLM, Instructor, Tenacity, and 5 more I use in every agent. Read More.

AnitaB.org Cancels Grace Hopper Celebration 14 Days Out After Losing $14.6M and Half Its Attendees

By @solvency [ 10 Min read ] AnitaB.org cancelled the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration 14 days out after a $14.6M loss and a halving of attendance. How women in tech lost their biggest stage. Read More.

Meet Moxie Marlinspike: The Anarchist Sailor Who Built Signal and Encrypted Billions of Chats

By @zbruceli [ 13 Min read ] The contradictions are the man. An anarchist who ran the world's most important privacy infrastructure like an autocrat. A cryptographer who distrusts tech. Read More.

What Happens When AI Agents Start Maintaining Legacy Code?

By @vikrantbhalodia [ 12 Min read ] AI agents can read and modify legacy code, but missing business context makes autonomous maintenance far riskier than it first appears. Read More.

How the F*ck Could Foursquare Be Sold for $0?!?!?

By @writedown [ 7 Min read ] Foursquare raised $412M and sold to Infillion for $0 to every shareholder. Here's how debt and liquidation preferences zeroed out preferred and common. Read More.

This AI Model Has Native Text, Image, and Video Capabilities: Here's What You Should Know

By @aimodels44 [ 8 Min read ] Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-GGUF is a locally runnable, text-to-text GGUF release with native text, image, and video capabilities. Read More.

What Happens When AI Stops Working and We've Forgotten How to?

By @marshyon [ 6 Min read ] AI promises greater productivity, but dependence comes at a cost. Read More.

How Bitcoin's Lightning Network Works Under the Hood

By @tobses [ 15 Min read ] Learn how Bitcoin's Lightning Network uses payment channels, timelocks, HTLCs, and onion routing to enable fast, off-chain payments. Read More.

Agent Security & Identity (Part 1): Who Are You, Who's Your Agent, And What Should They Be Allowed?

By @axsaucedo [ 24 Min read ] Part 1 of a 2-part series on agent identity and security Read More.

NSA Says Patch PHP or Go Offline as AI-Found PHP2Shell Flaws Reach ~70% of the Web

By @patching [ 17 Min read ] NSA says patch PHP or go offline: AI-found PHP2Shell flaws let attackers take over servers running ~70% of websites. Here’s who’s exposed and how to fix it. Read More.

Star Wars and the Revenge of Midterms

By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 3 Min read ] A Star Wars-inspired take on Trump's midterm setbacks, MAGA, Gen Z, online extremism, and the dark side of America's political culture. Read More.

How to Use Codex Cloud: From GitHub Setup to Your First Pull Request