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The Code Brew's Weekly Newsletter - Week 6

Welcome to your weekly serving from The Code Brew! The big news this week is a treat for all frontend developers: React 19.2 has officially been released! 🎉 Dive into the announcement from the React team to see what's new. The AI explosion continues at a breakneck pace. This week saw the announcement of models like Sora 2 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, and the developer ecosystem is racing to keep up. Vercel announced a massive funding round to build the AI Cloud, and for .NET developers, Microsoft has just launched the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) to make building AI agents simple. Looking for some mind-blowing engineering? The Netflix tech blog dropped an absolute gem, detailing how they supercharged their workflow engine to be 100x faster. We've also got a look at how Cloudflare is making its network faster and more secure with Rust. On the creative side, CSS-Tricks has a fantastic tutorial on recreating Gmail's slick Google Gemini animation. And to wrap things up on a more reflective note, Dan Abramov shares his thoughts on the nature of our online spaces in his post, Open Social. There’s so much more to explore. Let's get brewing!

This Week’s Favourites

Open Social - Dan Abramov Blog

React 19.2 - React Blog

Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation - CSS Tricks Blog

Dotnet, C#, Azure

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Publishing NuGet packages from GitHub actions the easy way with Trusted Publishing - Andrew Lock Blog

Celebrating Marten’s 10th Birthday! - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

Last Sprint to Wolverine 5.0 - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

Building Secure APIs with Role-Based Access Control in ASP.NET Core - Milan Jovanovic Blog

Preparing Your .NET MAUI Apps for Google Play’s 16 KB Page Size Requirement - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

New version of Maester on Azure Web App — Microsoft Security Test Automation Framework - Cloudtips blog

Some Thoughts on MS Pulling Back on their “Eventing Framework” - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

Misc

Create a 3d scrolling animation with GSAP and Veo 3 - Builder.io Blog

The Risks of AI-Generated Software Development - Legit Security Blog

Stop Spaghetti SQL: Simplify Complex Queries with Postgres CTEs in Supabase - Ivan Kahl Blog

Deployment-level configuration for Fluid compute - Vercel blog

Faster time-to-start for v0 builds - Vercel blog

Recreating Apple-style 3D scroll animations in Three.js and WebGL - Builder.io Blog

How we automated accessibility compliance in five hours with GitHub Copilot - Github Blog

Static IPs are now available for more secure connectivity - Vercel blog

Where It’s at:// - Dan Abramov Blog

September 2025 Baseline monthly digest - web.dev Blog

Same Idea, Different Paint Brush - CSS Tricks Blog

v4.1.14 - Tailwindcss GitHub Release

Faster UX Design with AI - Builder.io Blog

New to the web platform in September - web.dev Blog

View & query bot verification data in Vercel Observability - Vercel blog

Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions - Cloudflare blog

Five things to try with the Supabase MCP server - Builder.io Blog

Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running entirely on Cloudflare’s stack - Cloudflare blog

Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI - Github Blog

Towards the AI Cloud: Our Series F - Vercel blog

Survey Reveals Consumer Sentiment on AI-Created Apps - Legit Security Blog

Codex vs Claude Code: which is the better AI coding agent? - Builder.io Blog

Welcoming CERN to Have I Been Pwned - Troy Hunt Blog

Composing pure Haskell assertions - Ploeh Blog

Using Git insteadOf to Automatically Replace HTTPS URLs with SSH - Meziantou Blog

15 years of helping build a better Internet: a look back at Birthday Week 2025 - Cloudflare blog

CodeQL zero to hero part 5: Debugging queries - Github Blog

Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 - CSS Tricks Blog

100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine - Netflix Tech Blog

What Is a Visual IDE? - Builder.io Blog

Collaborating with Anthropic on Claude Sonnet 4.5 to power intelligent coding agents - Vercel blog

Leader Election and Virtual Actors in Wolverine - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

Weekly Update 471 - Troy Hunt Blog

Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone - Cloudflare blog

Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust - Cloudflare blog

Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher Spotlights and Enhanced Incentives - Github Blog

Node.js Vercel Functions now support per-path request cancellation - Vercel blog

Figma AI Generator - Builder.io Blog

How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach - Github Blog

Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix - Netflix Tech Blog

YouTube Videos

dotnet format is awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Use Nuget correctly in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Local JWTs in .NET are awesome - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Azure Container Storage v2 Overview - John Savill Youtube

No Garbage Collection in C# - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Azure Update - 26th September 2025 - John Savill Youtube

HackerNews Posts

Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video - Hacker news

Sora 2 - Hacker news

Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Hacker news

Play snake in the URL address bar - Hacker news

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet - Hacker news

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think - Hacker news

Bluesky Alt Text Stream - Hacker news