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The Code Brew's Weekly Newsletter - Week 8

Grab your coffee, it's time for this week's Code Brew! The headline news comes from the React ecosystem with the much-anticipated launch of the React Compiler v1.0. In the .NET world, the release train continues with .NET 10 RC 2 now available, alongside new servicing updates. AI continues to be a hot topic, with major updates to GitHub Copilot's speed and capabilities. We've also curated fantastic reads on the CSS Masonry layout, context inheritance in TanStack Router, and a new Testing Vial concept that challenges traditional testing pyramids

This Week’s Favourites

React Compiler v1.0 - React Blog

Context Inheritance in TanStack Router - TkDodo Blog

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve - CSS Tricks Blog

Dotnet, C#, Azure

Announcing the .NET Security Group - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

.NET 10.0 RC 2 - Dotnet Runtime GitHub Release

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Managing Entra ID Configuration and Security using the Terraform MSGraph Provider ❤️ - Cloudtips blog

Mastering the C# Dispose Pattern - Ivan Kahl Blog

Misc

How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert - Github Blog

React Conf 2025 Recap - React Blog

Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl - Martin Fowler Blog

Introducing Legit AppSec Remediation Campaigns - Legit Security Blog

Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements - CSS Tricks Blog

Result isomorphism - Ploeh Blog

Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now - Github Blog

Just another (Black) Friday - Vercel blog

Anomaly alerts now in public beta - Vercel blog

How GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems - Github Blog

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks - Cloudflare blog

Create Apple-style scroll animations with CSS view-timeline - Builder.io Blog

How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering - Github Blog

GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started - Github Blog

Weekly Update 473 - Troy Hunt Blog

Introducing the Testing Vial: a (better?) alternative to Testing Diamond and Testing Pyramid - Code4IT

v3 alpha - NitroJS GitHub Release

We Completely Missed width/height: stretch - CSS Tricks Blog

Expanded Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Enterprise teams - Vercel blog

Introducing REACT: Why We Built an Elite Incident Response Team - Cloudflare blog

Building Fast Serverless APIs With Minimal APIs on AWS Lambda - Milan Jovanovic Blog

YouTube Videos

Enum Flag pitfalls in C# - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Windows Hotpatch Short #microsoft #windows - John Savill Youtube

Building the Coolest Console Apps in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

ConcurrentBag is awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Windows Hotpatch Overview - John Savill Youtube

Channels are awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Span from List is awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Azure Update - 10th October 2025 - John Savill Youtube

Debugger Display is awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

HackerNews Posts

How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World - Hacker news

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking - Hacker news

Uv overtakes pip in CI (for Wagtail users) - Hacker news

Wireguard FPGA - Hacker news

Meta Superintelligence’s surprising first paper - Hacker news

How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011) - Hacker news

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size - Hacker news