Weekly news | 2025-04-30
news
- OpenTofu Joins CNCF
- DuckDB UI: Instant SQL is here: Speedrun ad-hoc queries as you type
- OpenAI releases image generation in the API
- Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
- Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
- Energy labelling and ecodesign requirements will apply to these products from June 2025.
- GCC 15.1 release
- DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
- HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP
- Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
- A hardware processor that runs Python
- Qwen3 release
- Firefox Browser gets tab groups and profile management
- Google Just Launched an AI-Powered Duolingo Alternative
- First-ever LlamaCon
- Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
- Mercury, the world’s first commercial-scale diffusion language model
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-Prover-V2
- AWS:
- Account Management IAM-based account name updates
- AppConfig IPv6 support
- AppSync Events data source integrations for channel namespaces
- Bedrock Data Automation modality controls, hyperlinks and larger docs
- Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing |
GA - Bedrock Prompt Optimization |
GA - CodeBuild EC2 instance type and configurable storage size
- Cognito refresh token rotation
- Connect agent workspace contact-related actions for 3rd party apps
- Customer Carbon Footprint Tool new features and methodology
- Deadline Cloud macOS installer for submitters
- DMS Serverless automatic storage scaling
- EBS resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots
- EC2 new C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances
- Kinesis Data Streams default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account
- MSK Kafka version 3.9
- OpenSearch Ingestion guided visual pipeline builder
- Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook
- Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development
- Redshift history mode support to 8 third-party SaaS applications
- Redshift Serverless Serverless Reservations
- Resource Explorer PrivateLink support
- Resource Groups +160 more resource types
- SageMaker Lakehouse attribute based access control
- SQS IPv6 Support
- Thinkbox Deadline v10.4.1 release
- Transfer Family Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints
tooling
- kargo: Application lifecycle orchestration
- CubeCL: Multi-platform high-performance compute language extension for Rust
- Standord's EE26N course on wireless communication
- ReverseUI: Reverse engineered UI library from the best sites on the web
- zev: A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands
- colanode: Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data
- An Agent Mesh for Enterprise Agents
- FontDiffuser: Text to Font
- LLMs can see and hear without any training
- tilt: dev environment as code
- empty-enter-expander: Type less in the terminal with this tool
- free interactive C tutorial in browsers
- dbdiagram: Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams
- Vaultbreak: Prompt Engineer's Wordle
- TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant
- snapdom: captures DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed avoiding bottlenecks and long tasks
- slidev: Presentation Slides with Markdown
- sim: Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI
- ScreenRecorder: web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio
- web-eval-agent: An MCP server that autonomously evaluates web applications - Let the coding agent debug itself
- LibreLingo: FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
- Reject Cookies: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
- beatsync: perfect audio sync across multiple devices
- arkflow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine
- agenticSeek: A open, local Manus AI alternative. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity
- vantage-mcp-server: MCP Server to fetch costs and usage data from your Vantage account
- AWS Cost Analysis MCP Server
blogs
- You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
- I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
- QR is cool: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 multi-AZ clusters do not ensure Snapshot Isolation
- Anatomy of a SQL Engine
- Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
- What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?
- When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering
- Why I Blog and How I Automate it
- Why Vim Is More than Just an Editor – Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained
- korea81998: Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
- A Principled Approach to Querying Data
- CPU limits in Kubernetes: Why your pod is idle but still throttled: A deep dive into what really happens from K8s to Linux Kernel and Cgroups v2
- Eliminating observability vendor lock-in with OpenTelemetry: A hands-on demo
- Kubernetes 1.33: Top 8 security features you need to know
- Getting forked by Microsoft
- You containerized your app. Now it's amnesiac and antisocial. Let's fix that.
- High cardinality meets columnar time series system
- A guide to Kubernetes observability
- HAProxy vs NGINX performance: A comprehensive analysis
- Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
- CNCF announces graduation of in-toto security framework, enhancing software supply chain integrity across industries
- The future of AI and its infrastructure must be open
- Top 10 platform engineering takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025
- Kubernetes v1.33: Octarine
- Ansible: Pure (only in its) pragmatism
- A message about Earthly
- Beyond the checkbox: Scaling product security across Groww's SDLC
- Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for developer happiness and high performance
- KubeCon EU 2025 retrospective: Reflections from my sixth KubeCon
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Behind Cloud native data security with OAuth: Highlights from the authors
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CNCF On demand webinar: