AI Explainability, StateOfCSS 2025, and Web3 Music

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Today, we cover various topics ranging from machine learning, web3, AI alongside some trending links in the web development space. Have a great weekend ahead.

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🔖 The Reading Room

Articles we have hand-picked for you:

Designing the Built-in AI Web APIs

Designing AI APIs for the web requires solving complex format standardization issues around multimodal inputs, message constraints, and semantic behaviors. Unlike established platform capabilities, language model APIs lack decades of precedent, forcing new architectural decisions.

By Domenic Denicola →

How to Engineer for Explainability: When a Black-Box is Just not Enough
In finance, automotive, and integrity systems, ML models must justify their decisions to regulators and stakeholders. GDPR Article 22 mandates transparency for automated decisions, while safety-critical applications demand traceable reasoning. Black-box model isn't enough, explainability builds trust and ensures regulatory compliance across high-stakes domains.

By Avraam Tolmidis →

My Story of Building a Music Platform With Web3

Tom shares how after countless crashes, pivots, and rejections in the Web3 space, he finally found product-market fit by transforming how musicians and fans connect.

By Tom Norwood →

Malware analysis on AWS: Setting up a secure environment

This tutorial addresses how security teams can safely analyze malicious software in AWS while adhering to strict cloud policies and maintaining isolation.

By Gilad Sharabi and Yazan Khalaf →

Vibe Coding and The Illusion of Progress
AI has revolutionized how we write code but hasn't touched the harder problem of figuring out what's worth building. While vibe coding democratizes development, the real bottleneck remains understanding customer problems and validating market fit. Fast execution without validation just gets you lost quicker.

By Bandan Jot Singh →

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🔗 The Link Lounge

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🧰 The Toolbox

Tools and products we're excited about today:

Uppy

Uppy is a modular JavaScript file uploader that fetches files from local disk, cloud services, cameras, and URLs, offers preview and editing capabilities, then uploads to any destination with resumable transfers.

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Retire.js

Retire.js is a security scanner that detects JavaScript libraries and Node.js modules with known vulnerabilities in web applications, available as command line tool, browser extensions, and build plugins.

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Optique

Optique is a type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript that transforms command-line arguments into well-typed data structures using composable parsers with automatic type inference.

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Zedless

Zedless is a privacy-focused, local-first fork of Zed editor that removes telemetry, eliminates reliance on proprietary cloud services, and prioritizes user-configurable infrastructure over default providers.

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