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Upgrade instructions Debian 12 -> 13: www.debian.org/releases/tri...

Anthropic has released Claude Code Security Reviewer, a GitHub action to automate code reviews with its Claude AI agent

www.anthropic.com/news/automat...

github.com/anthropics/c...

Good write-up. Recommended reading. blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreema...

LibreOffice is Finally Working on a Long-Requested Feature and I am Happy A powerful new feature is on its way to LibreOffice.

re: LibreOffice and Markdown news.itsfoss.com/libreoffice-...

Google docs, LibreOffice (under active development), now Apple Notes

Screenshot of https://x.com/lydiahallie/status/1952418034657960297

Screenshot of https://x.com/alistaiir/status/1951362347471356183

- Bun hired Lydia Hallie from Vercel - I guess for DevRel
- next@canary supports Bun‘s built-in modules, and the Tweet from Alistar suggests that they might have a foot (or at least a toe) in Vercel‘s door for Bun-as-runtime.

Don’t be sleeping on Bun.

GitHub - HiDeoo/starlight-changelogs: Starlight plugin to display changelogs alongside your project documentation Starlight plugin to display changelogs alongside your project documentation - HiDeoo/starlight-changelogs

📜 Interested in publishing changelogs with your Starlight docs? Just released a new plugin to do just that:

- Support generating changelogs from many sources like Changesets, GitHub Releases, and more to come
- Paginated list of all versions with individual version pages

github.com/HiDeoo/starl...

People still are tragically underestimating what this is doing to our societies.
The rich got richer and richer, super rich, mega rich. They are dictating policies.
So it gets worse — and they get richer. It tears our societies apart.

Smart!

but you might want to add "--isolated" to args so that the agents don't get stuck if someone / something else is using the browser already. Don't know why that's not the default.

July 2025 Update The team and I separated.

The best best i18n support for SvelteKit (Paraglide by Inlang owned by Opral) hinges on a startup with lots of drama.

Latest update by the founder: “The team and I separated.”

opral.substack.com/p/july-2025-...

A perk on top is if you have types or a type-centric framework like Astro, you can also tell the agent to test with tsc / tsgo (or astro check).

And I know everyone loves Claude Code, but somehow @warp.dev seems to be less sloppy to me and the Terminal invoker doesn’t get stuck.

Plus, bun / bunx.

GitHub - microsoft/playwright-mcp: Playwright MCP server Playwright MCP server. Contribute to microsoft/playwright-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Among all the MCPs I dare to say that the Playwright MCP is the MVP for web dev

Tell agent to
- create TODO.md to track progress
- update it frequently for the case it „crashes“ (aka looses context; make this very explicit in the prompt)
- test with the MCP

and chill
github.com/microsoft/pl...

We just published a deep dive on spatial joins in DuckDB by @maxxen.bsky.social.

In this blog post, Max explains how spatial joins evolved in DuckDB and how the current operator harnesses R-Trees.

Read the full post at duckdb.org/2025/08/08/s...

Runed Magical utilities for Svelte 5.

If you use @svelte.dev, remember that runed.dev exists 😊!

One of my favourites: runed.dev/docs/utiliti...

It makes reasoning about user interactions simple, and is a lot more lightweight and easier to use than XState.

If you're new to CSS, one of the best ways to make your life easier is to take advantage of all the CSS debugging features in your devtools.

To help, I teamed up with @amitsheen.bsky.social to create a free, 5-part beginner course on getting started with them: devtoolsforbeginners.kevinpowell.co

📈 Here are the SvelteBench results for gpt-5. Overall it places in 12th spot. However, it's a huge improvement over the other GPT models (last image), and seems like a decent choice for Svelte 5. Mini and Nano do not inherit the good scores. 😿 khromov.se/svelte-bench #svelte

YouTube video by Fireship Big projects are ditching TypeScript… why?

Turbo svelte and drizzle are dropping Typescript! I'm so happy even though I doubt it'll overtake the ts zealots' enthusiasm but a boy can dream can't he?

youtu.be/5ChkQKUzDCs?...

Oh I like that take

Google removed Pixel support from AOSP.
Samsung erased bootloader unlocking from its firmware.

@ec.europa.eu caters to foreign governments instead of standing up for European digital freedom.

🇳🇱 tweakers.net/reviews/1360...

#Android @tweakers.net

🙏 Thanks to Scharon Harding for the great review!

“Murena’s Pixel Tablet, while not perfect, proves that a privacy-forward tablet doesn’t have to come with trade-offs. Devices like this make privacy a competitive advantage that other companies should emulate.”

Ps.: Stay tuned for more great news!

On that note: to quickly lock your iPhone with PIN:
- press power button 5x quickly
or
- hold power + one volume button down for 3 seconds

Zwangsweise Handy-Entsperrung: Verstoß gegen das Grundgesetz Der BGH hat kürzlich die zwangsweise Entsperrung eines Smartphones durch die Polizei für rechtens erklärt. Dabei gibt es dafür keine Rechtsgrundlage.

In a very strange yet very German ruling, the German Federal Court of Justice has decided that biometric phone protection is lesser than PIN protection. aka police is allowed to force you to unlock with your face / finger but not allowed to do so with your PIN. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

Release v4.0.0-beta.4 · vitest-dev/vitest 🚀 Features browser: Add qwik to the vitest init cli command  -  by @thejackshelton in #8330 (1638b) Introduce toMatchScreenshot for Visual Regression Testing  -  by @macarie in #8041 (d45f9) ...

Oh, @vitest.dev introduced „visual regression testing“ aka screenshots for components in beta mode. github.com/vitest-dev/v...

h/t via void(0) blog: voidzero.dev/posts/whats-...

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...

NEW: I spoke to @rondeibert.bsky.social ahead of his keynote at Black Hat today.

Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.

“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.

Big Tech no longer cares if we like their products. As long as we stay. As long as we pay. Their real goal? Please shareholders. Lock users in. Push hype (especially AI) to boost stock prices. The actual service? Just good enough to avoid a painful switch. That’s a sad but accurate summary.

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Here’s a take (which I don’t necessarily endorse) bsky.app/profile/fron...

GitHub - nmattia/uht: HTTP server library for MicroPython and CircuitPython HTTP server library for MicroPython and CircuitPython - nmattia/uht

Note to — adventurous — embedded Pythonistas (MicroPython and @circuitpython.org):

I'm looking for feedback on an HTTP server library I'm working on. The repo is here: github.com/nmattia/uht

Still a work in progress, but it's got install instructions and docs!

nmattia.github.io/uht/uht.html