Welcome, Developers! 👋 This week brings ECMAScript 2025's official approval with eight new features including Promise.try() and iterator helpers. Meanwhile, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is accidentally becoming a universal plugin system - originally built for AI, it's now enabling any app to leverage plugins across the ecosystem. We also cover the bot detection arms race, Kubernetes GitOps with ArgoCD, and the current software engineering market correction. |
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Welcome, Developers! 👋 This week brings ECMAScript 2025's official approval with eight new features including Promise.try() and iterator helpers. Meanwhile, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is accidentally becoming a universal plugin system - originally built for AI, it's now enabling any app to leverage plugins across the ecosystem. We also cover the bot detection arms race, Kubernetes GitOps with ArgoCD, and the current software engineering market correction. |
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Cut out the 60 hours of compliance busywork.
You need a simple UX, clear pricing, and 1:1 Slack support. You need Delve. Join Lovable and 100s of other companies using Delve for all things compliance (SOC 2, ISO, pentesting, and more). And yes, this is the same Delve that went viral for sending out custom doormats. Book a demo today with code SP52 for a CUSTOM DOORMAT + $1,000 OFF when you get compliant. |
Cut out the 60 hours of compliance busywork.
You need a simple UX, clear pricing, and 1:1 Slack support. You need Delve. Join Lovable and 100s of other companies using Delve for all things compliance (SOC 2, ISO, pentesting, and more). And yes, this is the same Delve that went viral for sending out custom doormats. Book a demo today with code SP52 for a CUSTOM DOORMAT + $1,000 OFF when you get compliant. |
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🚀 ECMAScript 2025 Officially Approved The 129th Ecma General Assembly has officially approved ECMAScript 2025 as a standard. This major release brings eight significant new features including import attributes for JSON modules, iterator helper methods, new Set operations, and Promise.try(). The update also introduces RegExp.escape() and support for 16-bit floating point numbers. While these are shipped features, here is what else is coming to JavaScript soon. |
🚀 ECMAScript 2025 Officially Approved The 129th Ecma General Assembly has officially approved ECMAScript 2025 as a standard. This major release brings eight significant new features including import attributes for JSON modules, iterator helper methods, new Set operations, and Promise.try(). The update also introduces RegExp.escape() and support for 16-bit floating point numbers. While these are shipped features, here is what else is coming to JavaScript soon. |
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🔧 MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System Model Context Protocol (MCP) was designed to connect AI models to data sources, but it's accidentally becoming a universal plugin system. Like USB-C powering everything from phones to toasters, MCP enables any application to leverage plugins built for AI assistants. This creates an unexpected ecosystem where every MCP server becomes a free plugin for anything that speaks the protocol. |
🔧 MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System Model Context Protocol (MCP) was designed to connect AI models to data sources, but it's accidentally becoming a universal plugin system. Like USB-C powering everything from phones to toasters, MCP enables any application to leverage plugins built for AI assistants. This creates an unexpected ecosystem where every MCP server becomes a free plugin for anything that speaks the protocol. |
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🔍 Bot Detection Arms Race Web bots have evolved from simple curl scripts to sophisticated browser automation, while detection techniques have grown from basic User-Agent checks to advanced behavioral analysis and AI-powered systems. This cat-and-mouse game continues as both sides develop increasingly sophisticated methods to outsmart each other. |
🔍 Bot Detection Arms Race Web bots have evolved from simple curl scripts to sophisticated browser automation, while detection techniques have grown from basic User-Agent checks to advanced behavioral analysis and AI-powered systems. This cat-and-mouse game continues as both sides develop increasingly sophisticated methods to outsmart each other. |
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🔄 Kubernetes GitOps Revolution with ArgoCD ArgoCD transforms Kubernetes deployments by using Git as the single source of truth for application state management. This approach significantly reduces security risks compared to traditional push-based workflows. The tool runs internally within clusters, making it safer for enterprise deployments while maintaining automated continuous delivery capabilities. |
🔄 Kubernetes GitOps Revolution with ArgoCD ArgoCD transforms Kubernetes deployments by using Git as the single source of truth for application state management. This approach significantly reduces security risks compared to traditional push-based workflows. The tool runs internally within clusters, making it safer for enterprise deployments while maintaining automated continuous delivery capabilities. |
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💼 Software Engineering Market Correction Anton, in his opinionated post, argues that the golden era of easy tech jobs is over. Software engineering, once the ultimate career "life hack" with high pay for minimal effort, is experiencing a reality check as less-abled engineers get squeezed out of an oversaturated market. The profession that attracted everyone seeking quick money now demands genuine skill and ambition to survive. |
💼 Software Engineering Market Correction Anton, in his opinionated post, argues that the golden era of easy tech jobs is over. Software engineering, once the ultimate career "life hack" with high pay for minimal effort, is experiencing a reality check as less-abled engineers get squeezed out of an oversaturated market. The profession that attracted everyone seeking quick money now demands genuine skill and ambition to survive. |
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🧰 The Toolbox Tools and products we're excited about today: |
🧰 The Toolbox Tools and products we're excited about today: |
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Gemini CLI After Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, Google enters the ring with its own CLI, but it's fully open-source with quite a generous free tier, for which you'd have to pay in other companies' CLIs. |
Gemini CLI After Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, Google enters the ring with its own CLI, but it's fully open-source with quite a generous free tier, for which you'd have to pay in other companies' CLIs. |
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Edit Edit is a simple terminal-based text editor inspired by MS-DOS Editor but with modern VS Code-like controls, designed to be accessible for users unfamiliar with terminals while providing essential editing functionality. |
Edit Edit is a simple terminal-based text editor inspired by MS-DOS Editor but with modern VS Code-like controls, designed to be accessible for users unfamiliar with terminals while providing essential editing functionality. |
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Octelium Octelium is a self-hosted zero trust platform that provides unified secure access to private resources through identity-aware proxies, operating as a VPN alternative, ZTNA platform, API gateway, or PaaS with secret-less authentication and policy-based access control. |
Octelium Octelium is a self-hosted zero trust platform that provides unified secure access to private resources through identity-aware proxies, operating as a VPN alternative, ZTNA platform, API gateway, or PaaS with secret-less authentication and policy-based access control. |
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Cut out the 60 hours of compliance busywork.
You need a simple UX, clear pricing, and 1:1 Slack support. You need Delve. Join Lovable and 100s of other companies using Delve for all things compliance (SOC 2, ISO, pentesting, and more). And yes, this is the same Delve that went viral for sending out custom doormats. Book a demo today with code SP52 for a CUSTOM DOORMAT + $1,000 OFF when you get compliant. |
Cut out the 60 hours of compliance busywork.
You need a simple UX, clear pricing, and 1:1 Slack support. You need Delve. Join Lovable and 100s of other companies using Delve for all things compliance (SOC 2, ISO, pentesting, and more). And yes, this is the same Delve that went viral for sending out custom doormats. Book a demo today with code SP52 for a CUSTOM DOORMAT + $1,000 OFF when you get compliant. |
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