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job offers, and community threads.
Any fool can write code that a computer can
understand. Good programmers write code that humans
can understand.
Martin Fowler
Something to read 📖
Former GitHub CEO Launches a 'Vibe-Coding' Rival —
The Register
Thomas Dohmke, GitHub's former CEO, has launched
Entire, a decentralized Git host built for the age of
AI agents. His pitch: coding bots now generate roughly
17M pull requests a month and are crushing GitHub's
infrastructure, so agents get a "parallel universe" to
work in without slowing human deployments. The future
of source control — or an admission that AI slop broke
GitHub?
Microsoft's Open Source Tools Hacked to Steal Devs'
Passwords — TechCrunch
Attackers slipped password-stealing malware into
popular open source packages under Microsoft's
umbrella, targeting AI developers. Microsoft disabled
dozens of GitHub repositories in response. Another
reminder that the software supply chain is only as
strong as its weakest dependency — and that "just npm
install it" is a security decision.
AWS US-East-1 Melts Down After a Cooling Failure —
Network World
A cooling-system failure in AWS's Northern Virginia
data center let servers overheat and shut down,
knocking out EC2 and EBS in the region everyone still
depends on. Cue the perennial debate: why does half
the internet still live in us-east-1, and is
multi-region resilience a luxury or a must?
Why Developers Are Over the Cloud — InfoWorld
Developers are done choosing a hyperscaler first. New
data shows they now pick their workflow and developer
experience — Docker, npm, local-first tooling — and
treat AWS as an afterthought. Is the great cloud
repatriation real, or just fatigue with surprise
bills? Either way, the hyperscalers should be nervous.
AI Won't Replace Developers, But Developers Using AI
Might Replace Everyone Else — Forbes
The provocative thesis: AI handles low-leverage
coding, but senior engineers who provide architecture,
governance and validation become force multipliers.
"Vibe coding" without discipline just generates
technical debt faster. The uncomfortable takeaway for
juniors — the gap between those who wield AI well and
everyone else is widening fast.
Revisiting AI Coding Assistants: 'You're Holding It
Wrong' — Hackaday
After trashing AI coding tools a year ago, the author
gives them another honest shot — better models, better
frontends, sharper prompting. The verdict is nuanced:
genuinely useful if you drive them right, useless (or
dangerous) if you don't. A refreshingly non-hype take
in a sea of "AI changes everything."
Some job offers 🧐
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Grupo Castilla is looking for a
Mid Cloud Engineer (Azure & AWS)
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Grupo Castilla is a leading Spanish HR-tech
company delivering payroll and human capital
management SaaS that helps organizations
manage, pay and develop their people.
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osapiens is looking for a
Senior Full-Stack Developer (React / Node /
TypeScript)
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osapiens helps companies unify ESG compliance,
transparency and efficiency across their value
chain through its enterprise-grade, serverless
osapiens HUB platform.
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LGT Digital Factory is looking
for a
Senior Full Stack Developer
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LGT Digital Factory is the technology and
innovation hub of LGT, the international
private banking and asset management group,
building digital products for wealth
management.
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LGT Digital Factory is looking
for a
Performance Engineer
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Join LGT Digital Factory to build and optimize
high-performing web applications in a banking
environment, driving performance testing
across frontend, APIs and infrastructure.
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Community threads 💬
¿Es un error especializarse en Azure Databricks?
Hola, Llevo, relativamente, poco tiempo en este
sector donde me he especializado en Azure Databricks
y varias consultoras me llaman para puestos de data
engineer pero cuando digo que quiero seguir con esta
tecnología, al no ser una "navaja suiza", el proceso
no avanza. ¿Es un error ser tan tajante en mi
decisión de seguir con Databricks?
Proceso de aplicación
Hola, he aplicado a una posición en Minsait hace ya
un par de semanas y aqui aun aparece que no han
iniciado el proceso de revisión de mi aplicación?
Cual es el tiempo estimado? Gracias
Seen on the net 🌐
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OpenClaw
Self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs
entirely on your own devices, wiring 50+
channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Signal,
iMessage). Rocketed from 9k to 210k+ GitHub
stars in weeks.
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Headroom
A Netflix engineer's tool that compresses logs,
tool outputs and RAG chunks before they hit the
LLM — 60–95% fewer tokens for the same answers.
Library, proxy and MCP server; ~$700K saved.
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Paperclip
The viral "zero-human company" framework: model
AI agents as employees with roles, budgets,
reporting lines and governance. Nearly 70k stars
since March — future of work or peak-2026
absurdity?
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CubeSandbox
Tencent's open-source, hardware-isolated sandbox
for AI agents. Built on RustVMM + KVM, it spins
up a fresh microVM in under 60ms with ~5MB
overhead and is E2B-SDK compatible.
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GStack
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's exact Claude Code
setup: 23 opinionated "skills" that role-play
CEO, designer, eng manager, QA and more. Hit
~100k stars in weeks.
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Databasus
A free, self-hosted PostgreSQL backup tool with
point-in-time recovery and restore verification
— because a backup you've never restored isn't a
backup. A genuinely useful pick for DBAs and
sysadmins.
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Some events to attend 📍
GUADEC 2026
The GNOME community's flagship conference,
hosted in Spain this year. Talks, workshops
and BoFs on open source, Linux desktop and
developer tooling — attend on-site or fully
online.
A Coruña, Spain (+ Online)
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16–21 Jul
More
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EuroPython 2026
Europe's largest Python conference: 100+ talks
across five tracks, tutorials, summits and
sprints. Remote attendance is available for
those who can't make it to Poland.
Kraków, Poland (+ Online)
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13–19 Jul
More
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EuroSciPy 2026
The European gathering for scientific
computing with Python — data, ML and research
tooling. Co-located with EuroPython in Kraków,
with sprints, talks and tutorials.
Kraków, Poland
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18–23 Jul
More
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FrOSCon 2026
The Free and Open Source Software Conference —
two days of talks and workshops spanning
system administration, security, digital
sovereignty and AI. Free to attend thanks to
sponsors.
Sankt Augustin, Germany (Free)
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15–16 Aug
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SciPy 2026
The 25th annual Scientific Computing with
Python conference: two days of tutorials,
three of talks and two of sprints. In-person
and remote attendance options available.
Minneapolis, USA (+ Online)
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13–19 Jul
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