Weekly news | 2025-12-17

news

• The Tor Project is Making a Switch to Rust, Ditches C
• Google Releases its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source
• Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Certificates
• Astral announces beta release of ty, an extremely fast Python type checker and LSP
• AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can’t Replace Junior Devs
• Coursera to Combine with Udemy
• Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
• Cloudflare Radar: 2025 Year in Review
• The State of AI Coding Report 2025
• GitHub to charge $0.002/min for self-hosted runners starting March 2026 -> and rollback
• Terraform CDK EOL

• Bitbucket cleanup of free unused workspaces: what you need to know

• AI:

  • Introducing GPT-5.2
  • OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
  • GPT Image 1.5
  • Gemini 3 Flash

• AWS:
  • Application Migration Service supports IPv6
  • Aurora DSQL cluster creation in seconds
  • Aurora PostgreSQL integration with Kiro powers
  • Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0
  • CloudWatch SDK optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
  • Cognito identity pools connectivity with AWS PrivateLink
  • DataSync increases scalability+performance for on-prem file transfers
  • DataSync Terraform support for Enhanced mode
  • ECS Fargate custom container stop signals
  • ElastiCache Serverless same-slot WATCH command
  • GameLift Servers AI powered assistance in Console
  • Partner Central opportunity deal sizing
  • Quick Suite Quick Research with Quick Flows
  • RDS and Aurora resource tagging for Automated Backups
  • Shield network security director with multi-account analysis
  • Spatial Data Management accelerate spatial-data insights
  • Support Center Console screen sharing for troubleshooting support cases
  • Systems Manager Validate best practice compliance for SAP ABAP
  • WorkSpaces Secure Browser introduces Web Content Filtering
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Patterns.dev: free online resource on design, rendering, and performance patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript or modern frameworks.
• sim: a n8n alternative
• Umbrel: Personal cloud
• sqlit: A user friendly TUI for SQL databases
• Introduction to Software Development Tooling

blogs

• SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing
• Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
• Recovering Anthony Bourdain’s (really) lost Li.st’s
• Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar:
  Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
• How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem
• How SQLite is tested
• We Tried Atmos: From DevOps to SweetOps?