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📚 Software Engineering Articles
Complete guide to agentic AI patterns for production systems
GitHub unveils how Copilot's memory system works under the hood
Essential cybersecurity concepts every developer should master
Controversial take: why this dev hates GitHub Actions
Deep dive into design systems for modern engineering teams
🗞️ Tech and AI Trends
2026's mega IPO wave coming with OpenAI, Anthropic
Apple and Google's massive $5B Gemini deal shakes the industry
Cloudflare acquires Astro, strengthening its web development ecosystem
👨🏻💻 Coding Tip
Use Durable Objects in Cloudflare Workers for globally distributed stateful apps
Time-to-digest: 5 minutes
Notion tackled their #1 feature request by enabling full offline capabilities for their complex block-based editor. The team had to reinvent their storage layer and sync mechanisms to handle offline state management across millions of users and devices.
The challenge: Building a reliable offline-first experience while maintaining data consistency across Notion's unique block architecture and handling complex parent-child relationships.
Implementation highlights:
Forest of offline trees: Created a sophisticated tracking system using SQLite to manage multiple reasons why pages should stay offline
Push-based updates: Built a pub/sub system for efficient page version synchronization instead of polling
Smart reconciliation: Implemented timestamp-based diffs to minimize unnecessary refetches when coming back online
Hierarchical inheritance: Designed automatic offline availability for database items and child pages
Eventually consistent model: Maintained data integrity through careful state management and minimal tree updates
Results and learnings:
Zero data loss: Achieved reliable conflict resolution using CRDT data models
Efficient sync: Minimized network usage through intelligent diff tracking
Seamless UX: Users can work offline without worrying about missing or partial content
The key takeaway is that even complex offline synchronization problems can be solved through careful state modeling and intelligent update mechanisms. It shows how breaking down a seemingly impossible feature into manageable components can lead to an elegant solution.
ARTICLE (robot reality check)
What AI is actually good for, according to developers
GITHUB REPO (skills-for-bots)
Agent Skills
ARTICLE (yaml-rage-quit)
I Hate Github Actions with Passion
ARTICLE (ai-sandwich-service)
Serving Markdown for AI Agents
ESSENTIAL (code-big-bang)
The software Cambrian explosion
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How to make logging better
ESSENTIAL (pretty-code-patterns)
Design Systems for Software Engineers
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Brief: Leading AI companies OpenAI ($500B) and Anthropic ($350B), along with SpaceX ($800B), are preparing for massive public offerings in 2026, potentially creating 16,000 millionaires and marking the largest IPOs since Saudi Aramco.
Brief: Apple is reportedly negotiating a $5 billion deal with Google to integrate Gemini AI technology into iOS devices, marking a significant shift in Apple's AI strategy and potential competition with OpenAI.
Brief: Former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman are reportedly collaborating on a new AI-powered wearable device that could potentially rival Apple's AirPods in the audio market.
Brief: Anthropic's decision to block OpenCode from accessing their Claude Code API for the second time raises concerns about user restrictions and could drive developers to seek alternative AI model providers.
Brief: The Astro Technology Company, creators of the popular web framework used by Microsoft and Google, is being acquired by Cloudflare while maintaining its open-source status and commitment to platform-agnostic development.
This week’s coding challenge:
This week’s tip:
Cloudflare Workers Durable Objects provide stateful computation at the edge with automatic geographic distribution. Objects are single-threaded but can handle concurrent requests through async processing, making them ideal for real-time features like collaborative editing or gaming.
Wen?
Real-time collaboration: Build Google Docs-style editing with automatic conflict resolution
Multiplayer gaming: Handle game state synchronization without dedicated servers
Live chat systems: Manage chat rooms with persistent state and geographic distribution
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
Pablo Picasso
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