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Aug 22, 2026
- Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync- Cloudflare blog
- From 17ms to 0.04ms: How to Design the Right SQL Index- Milan Jovanovic Blog
- How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel- Vercel blog
- The JasperFx / CritterStack AI and Event Modeling Strategy- Jeremy D. Miller Blog
- I Just Want to Search- Sid Blog
- A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers- Netflix Tech Blog
- Azure Update 21st August 2026- John Savill Youtube
- Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready- Vercel blog
- Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic- Vercel blog
- .NET Developer — How should I upskill in AI?- Reddit Dotnet
- I don’t understand the logic behind access tokens and refresh tokens- Reddit Web dev
- Any company with great engineering culture?- Reddit Experienced Devs
- The August 17 outage, and the work ahead- Hacker news
Aug 21, 2026
- Your AI Agent Has New Skills. Can You Trust Them?- Legit Security Blog
- @solidjs/start@2.0.3- Solid-Start GitHub Release
- The August 17 outage, and the work ahead- Github Blog
- Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI- Vercel blog
- From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent- Cloudflare blog
- Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability- Vercel blog
- Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions- Vercel blog
- CritterWatch 1.0 is live!- Jeremy D. Miller Blog
- .NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance Fees- Reddit Dotnet
- Freelancers: much are you making a year?- Reddit Web dev
- My coworker's lack of knowledge is starting to affect my work- Reddit Experienced Devs
- OpenRouter is joining Stripe- Hacker news
Aug 20, 2026
- Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace- Vercel blog
- How to Survive an AI Mandate- Builder.io Blog
- Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern- Martin Fowler Blog
- Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft- Vercel blog
- Event Driven Architecture and Coupling: You’re Not as Decoupled as You Think- Code Opinion
- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work- Github Blog
- A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers- Cloudflare blog
- CritterWatch 1.0 Live Stream Today- Jeremy D. Miller Blog
- Tech in Five - What is a Harness- John Savill Youtube
- CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days- CSS Tricks Blog
- @solidjs/start@2.0.2- Solid-Start GitHub Release
- Visual Studio Code 1.135 (Insiders)- Visual Studio
- Polly introduces the Open Source Maintenance Fee- Reddit Dotnet
- I hate my job but the market is terrible. What do I do?- Reddit Experienced Devs
- Is agentic AI making you procrastinate?- Reddit Web dev
- A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome- Hacker news
Aug 19, 2026
- CritterWatch RC.10 — the final one!- Jeremy D. Miller Blog
- Claude Memory Admin- Steven Giesel blog
- BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234- Cloudflare blog
- Reliable Query Prefetching with TanStack Router- TkDodo Blog
- Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter- Vercel blog
- Fragments: August 18- Martin Fowler Blog
- Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys- Vercel blog
- @solidjs/start@2.0.1- Solid-Start GitHub Release
- Weekly Update 517: Cyber Ransoms- Troy Hunt Blog
- 2 hours in and GitHub still seeing some major outages- Reddit Web dev
- How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots- Hacker news
Aug 18, 2026
- Configuring Microsoft Entra ID Authentication for Azure SQL Database using Azure Bicep- Cloudtips blog
- Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta- Vercel blog
- GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month- Vercel blog
- How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient- Github Blog
- xUnit.v3 4.0.0 released- Steven Giesel blog
- AI-103 Develop AI Apps and Agents on Azure Study Cram- John Savill Youtube
- The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6- Phil Eaton Blog
- Manager pushing for next-level expectations, but I don't want the promo. Advice?- Reddit Experienced Devs
- 4+ Year Software Developer — Which Resume Structure Is Better?- Reddit Web dev
- Increase in learning .NET posts- Reddit Dotnet
- A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"- Hacker news