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Interesting Articles - 2/21/2025

  • Five coding hats

  • Implementing Authentication in NextJS 15 with better auth and MongoDB

  • this is one of the best @supabase explainer videos I’ve ever seen

  • We switched from Java to Go and don’t regret it

  • A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate

  • Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here’s an early look

  • We Were Wrong About GPUs

  • Sunsetting Create React App

  • want some low hanging fruit to start your day? rate limit stuff

  • searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours

  • Just like we containerized webapps, we’ll have to containerize AI agents

  • 🔥 this is essentially a billion $$$ business in a simple arch diagram

  • Detecting AI Agent Use & Abuse

  • Python environment

  • WASM will replace containers

  • The Duolingo Handbook

  • Next.js AI Chatbot now supports artifacts:

  • “We need to fix technical debt” If you say this in executive meetings, you’ve already lost.

  • Building LLM-powered applications in Go

  • A lot of people are ignoring that Go is becoming a commonly used language for prompting pipelines. Python in prototypes and Go in production is another common combo.

  • Beyond metering. The only guide you’ll ever need to implement usage-based pricing.

  • Do not query db in server components

  • The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1

  • Slack Overflow: How We Scaled Slack to Support 1000s of Developers

  • Keycloak, Angular, and the BFF Pattern

  • Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry

  • New open source template: NextJS

  • gRPC vs REST: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design

  • Experimenting with Stealer Logs in Have I Been Pwned

  • How to be a Principal Engineer/Senior Principal Engineer/Senior Architect/fancy-sounding-title Engineer, a thread:

  • Five years of React Native at Shopify

  • Treating IT as a cost center is like viewing your immune system as an expense.

  • Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s “Find My” network using OpenHaystack and Macless-Haystack with tools written in Go/TinyGo. No Apple hardware required!

  • Get started quickly with Next.js, Postgres, Stripe, and shadcn/ui.

  • Single-Page Applications with Next.js

  • Cloudflare workflows

  • The most comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript.

  • Microsoft 365 Licensing

  • Glue work considered harmful

  • Remember, as security professionals we are defending the free flow of ideas and capital that are essential for human progress. Defending lives and livelihoods. That’s the mission. Happy Holidays.

  • Writing & Testing a Paginated API Iterator in Go

  • Demo of forms with React 19 and Next.js.

  • Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18

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