Zig is leaving GitHub. Andrew Kelley moved the project to Codeberg, a signal that open source infrastructure choices are becoming ideological, not just technical. That migration alone is worth understanding in detail.
Four other stories round out this issue. Matheus Lima defines what separates senior developers from the rest, and it is not years of experience. Tega Brain built a browser extension to filter AI-generated slop from search results. Matias Heikkilä makes the case that vibe coding has real costs that do not disappear just because the code runs. And SSDs storing data at rest have an underreported vulnerability that affects anyone assuming encryption is enough.
Read the full newsletter to get Lima's actual criteria for seniority, Brain's extension name and how it works, and the specific SSD attack vector. These are not opinion pieces. They are technical arguments with named authors and concrete positions.
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