AWS Outage Breaks the Internet

From Reddit to Coinbase, major consumer services came to a halt from current AWS outage. Banks, government sites, and even smart home devices like Alexa and Ring doorbells were affected. It goes to show how a good portion of web relies on singular points of failure.

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Claude Skills

Anthropic released a new feature allowing Claude to load specialized instructions, scripts, and resources on-demand for specific tasks. Users can create custom skills or use pre-built options for common tasks. Here are two articles signifying the good and bad:

• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

• Claude Skills Considered Harmful

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Most of What We Call Progress

Software's obsession with new tools and frameworks often masks the same old problems with fancier logos. The real skill isn't building complex systems; it's making complexity manageable with simple, durable solutions like Postgres over unnecessarily sophisticated stacks.

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CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens 

Modern CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() let you dramatically reduce code complexity by grouping selectors efficiently. Instead of repeating selector combinations dozens of times, you can write clean, readable code that's easier to maintain. Despite excellent browser support, only 45% of developers use these powerful features.

By Matthias Ott →

HoneyBee

HoneyBee uses LLMs to generate misconfigured application environments (like Jenkins or PostgreSQL) via Docker files, plus Nuclei detection templates to test vulnerabilities. It enables security teams to quickly create and deploy intentionally vulnerable systems for testing purposes.

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Elixir v1.19

Elixir v1.19 enhances its type system with broader type inference and protocol checking to catch more bugs automatically. It also delivers up to 4x faster compilation for large projects through improved parallel processing and lazy module loading.

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ripgrep

ripgrep is a fast, recursive line-oriented search tool that respects gitignore rules and automatically filters hidden/binary files. It uses Rust's regex engine with SIMD optimizations, supports Unicode, PCRE2, multiline search, file type filtering, and parallel directory traversal for superior performance.

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