Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-09-29

• Medium: What We Built for Medium Editors This Year (and What I Broke)
• Airbnb: Personalization without user identity
• Replit: Free the models: Harness design at the frontier
• Android: Driving growth on Google Play: The next era of subscriptions
• Laravel News: Laravel Release Cycle: Versions, Support Policy, and Dates

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-09-30

• Hostinger: ​​Introducing Hostinger Restore: Making technology accessible to environmental…
• Thoughtbot: Respecting your users' dread of the clankers
• Elastic: Better together: Celebrating the 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards
• CodeName One: Your Push Request Succeeded. The Device Key Is Dead.
• Vercel: Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-09-30

• Matthew Green: Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
• SitePoint: WebRTC Data Channels vs WebSockets for Real-Time Browser Games
• AWS: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and…
• Laravel News: Laravel AI SDK and Laravel MCP Security Fixes: Update Now
• AWS: Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026

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Monthly engineering picks — 5 picks
2026-09-01 – 2026-09-30

• AWS: Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on…
• Vercel: Edge Requests are now called CDN Requests
• Android: How Instagram Direct engineers built AI-native UI architecture with Jetpack…
• Matthew Green: Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
• SitePoint: WebRTC Data Channels vs WebSockets for Real-Time Browser Games

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-02

• Stack Overflow: Constraints that make developers faster
• Thoughtbot: NWRUG's (Manchester, UK) October 2026 meeting — It's time to bin your VCR
• CodeName One: A Smaller, Faster Java Server with a Spring-Style API
• NVIDIA: How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
• AWS: Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize…

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-03

• CodeName One: Honey, I Shrunk Java
• Palantir: Early Talent Hiring at Palantir
• Red Hat: Kube AuthKit: Unified Kubernetes and OpenShift auth in Python
• Red Hat: Smarter GPU sharing: How Red Hat build of Kueue works with dynamic resource…
• NVIDIA: NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-03

• Real Python: 11 Beginner Tips for Learning Python Programming
• Real Python: Basic Data Types in Python: A Quick Exploration
• Atomic Object: Walk the Halls: Understand a Business to Build a Better Product
• Freek Van der Herten: I’m Using GPUI For Everything
• Cloudflare: Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-04

• CodeName One: Can You Tell the Difference Between These iOS Tab Bars?
• SitePoint: Pi 1.0 Coding Agent Setup: Install, Configure MCP, and Run Codemode
• SitePoint: How to Detect Breaking API Changes with TypeScript and OpenAPI
• Real Python: Quiz: Operator and Function Overloading in Custom Python Classes
• Jake Yesbeck: The Way and Remainder

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Weekly engineering picks — 5 picks
2026-09-28 – 2026-10-04

• Jerry Gamblin: Decision Models vs. CVE Data
• Chris Wellons: A new, bespoke static site generator to replace Jekyll
• OCTO Technology: Le développement agentique est-il le fossoyeur de la modélisation métier ? -…
• Real Python: How to Install Python on Your System: A Guide
• Real Python: Strings and Character Data in Python

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-05

• Wealthfront: Unsupervised Topic Discovery with Text Embeddings
• .NET: UWP and WinUI 3 apps: UI testing with MSTest
• GitHub: ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
• ClickHouse: Executable UDFs are now generally available on ClickHouse Cloud
• Blender: Geometry Nodes Workshop: September 2026

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-06

• Cloudflare: The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?
• Vercel: AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks
• .NET: A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit
• Airbnb: Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at…
• AWS: All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-07

• CodeName One: Do You Want Your Web App to Feel Like a Native App?
• GitHub: Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
• Pinterest: Metrics Board: Building an Agent-ready Metrics Layer
• Meta: NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
• Laravel News: VMPal: Give Your AI Agent a Whole Computer

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-07

• NVIDIA: NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and…
• GitHub: Secret protection must scale with software
• ClickHouse: 🗽 Postgres Summit US 2026 retrospective
• Cloudflare: Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare
• Strava: Summer at my dream company!

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-08

• Hostinger: How solo founders build and run their businesses online
• T.J. Maher: Refactoring The-Internet: Deploying the web app to Render
• Eli Bendersky: Monte-Carlo simulations
• CodeName One: Don't Order Fish on Monday. Don't Release on Friday
• Node.js: Node.js 26.11.1 (Current)

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-09

• Zyte: Five takeaways from Extract Summit 2026 Austin
• Stack Overflow: Taking a look under your agent’s hood
• ThoughtWorks: Leadership in the age of AI agents
• CodeName One: Android on iOS, Web & Desktop Efficiently and for Free
• SitePoint: Secure Cookies with SameSite: Lax, Strict, and Cross-Site Rules

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-09

• Hostinger: Could AI agents be the end of us? The more immediate risk is quieter
• GitHub: Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build
• SitePoint: Vue 3 Composition API: Stop Watcher Memory Leaks in Composables
• SitePoint: JavaScript Event Loop Explained: How to Trace Queues and Debug Async Code
• Pinterest: From Activity to Intent: Generating User Journeys with LLMs

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-10

• Real Python: Python for Loops: The Pythonic Way
• Real Python: Namespaces in Python
• Atomic Object: The Importance of Play & Whimsy at Work
• Freek Van der Herten: Migrating Pinkary from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud
• SitePoint: Making JavaScript API Requests More Reliable with Timeouts, Retries, and…

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-11

• SitePoint: The Design Workflow Is Broken. Here Is How Vitalii Khomenko Thinks It Should…
• CodeName One: Update DB Schema in Production with Flyway like Syntax
• Real Python: Quiz: How to Get a List of All Files in a Directory With Python
• OCTO Technology: Le développement agentique est-il le fossoyeur de la modélisation métier ? -…
• CodeName One: Easy Full Stack Authentication and Login in the Style of Spring

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Today in engineering — 5 picks
2026-10-11

• SitePoint: Test README with Users and Docker: Two-Layer Verification
• SitePoint: AI Agent Tool Calling in TypeScript: Guardrails Against Runaway Loops
• Matthew Green: New website: estimating human cryptanalytic work
• Real Python: Functional Programming in Python: When and How to Use It
• Real Python: What Can I Do With Python?

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