Weekly news | 2025-08-27

news

• China's Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour, severing connection to the outside world
  • Discussion
• AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
• uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally!)
• Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
• Thanks, Nvidia: SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world's top DRAM maker for first time in over 30 years
• U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector
• Cloudflare announced their Media over QUIC CDN
• FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman"
• Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
• Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading
• Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says
• Security Alert | NX Compromised to Steal Wallets and Credentials
• AI:
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 Release
  • Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our state-of-the-art image model
  • Claude for Chrome

• AWS:
  • Bedrock Batch Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS inference
  • Bedrock
    -Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models
    -simplified access to OpenAI open weight models
  • Billing and Cost Management
    -customizable Dashboards
    -MCP server
  • Clean Rooms error message configurations for PySpark analyses
  • Cognito terms of use and privacy policy docs to Managed Login
  • Connect
    -multi-user web, in-app and video calling
    -out-of-the box embedding of Tasks and Emails
    -recurring activities in agent schedules
  • EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances
  • EKS namespace configuration for AWS and Community add-ons
  • IoT Core customer-managed keys
  • Managed Service for Apache Flink Customer Managed Keys (CMK)
  • Marketplace streamlined FX for AMI-based products
  • OpenSearch Service now supports AI-powered forecasting
  • RDS
    -RDS for Db2 now supports read replicas
    -RDS for PostgreSQL delayed read replicas
    -RDS for SQL Server Kerberos authentication with self-managed AD
  • S3 Express One Zone resilience testing with Fault Injection Service
  • S3 verify the content of stored datasets
  • SageMaker Unified Studio S3 file sharing options to projects
  • Security Incident Response
    -achieves HITRUST Certification
    -introduces integrations with ITSM
  • Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5
  • VPC IPAM in-console CloudWatch alarm management
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• simpleIDE: Visual Basic IDE for Native Linux Dotnet Development
• chartDB Cloud: Visualize and Share Database Diagrams
• LabPlot: Free and Open Source Data Visualization and Analysis Software
• nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
• top_secret: Filter sensitive information from free text before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs
• manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
• LunarEngine: Open-source Luau 3D engine (API-compatible)
• clearcam: Add object detection, tracking, and mobile notifications to any RTSP Camera or iPhone
• service-ping (sping): An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye
• git-annex: managing large files with git, without storing the file contents in git
• VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels
• cactoide: Mobile first open-source RSVP platform. Alternative for meetup.com & eventbrite and partiful for small companies and groups

blogs

• Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
• An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
• How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work?
• Code Review Can Be Better
• Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis
• The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
• Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
• What makes Claude Code so damn good
• My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy
• Optimizing Straddled Joins in Readyset: From Hash Joins to Index Condition Pushdown
• Static Sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker
• A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
• Wicked Python trickery - dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime
• A visual introduction to big O notation
• Everything I know about good API design
• Burner Phone 101
• DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
• An Illustrated Guide to OAuth
• AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
• How We Rebuilt Cloud Life’s Infrastructure Delivery with System Initiative