Five topics worth your time this week. Matheus Lima defines what actually separates senior developers from the rest. Tega Brain built a browser extension to filter AI-generated slop from your feeds. Andrew Kelley moved Zig off GitHub and onto Codeberg, a decision with real implications for open source infrastructure independence.
Matias Heikkilä puts a hard number on vibe coding's hidden costs, and there is a reported vulnerability affecting SSD data at rest that you should not scroll past.
The Zig migration and the AI slop filter are the two threads worth following in full. One is a principled infrastructure decision by a language creator. The other is a developer building tools to fight back against content degradation in real time. Read both before forming an opinion on either.
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