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Why Software Devs Keep Burning Out YouTube video by HealthyGamerGG

A psychiatrist discusses why Devs are in the top 10 for suicide. youtu.be/XW-02QiiHDM?...

Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI Cross-platform client says podcasts “belong to the people, not corporations.”…

I love PocketCasts. Been using it for years, and I still use it (even though I have Spotify), because Spotify inserts ads into podcasts, which already have their own Native ads... It's too much. It's nice to see they're now free.

Highly recommend giving them a look. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

* They're only a lot of work for DIY. A good managed service with preview envs, like Northflank, removes all of the pain from set up and management.

The what and why of ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes | Blog — Northflank This post is an overview of preview environments. It covers why they’re crucial for modern development teams, what makes them challenging to implement (particularly for backend and full-stack apps), a...

I wrote about ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes. They can be a lot of work to get up and running*, but they are so worth it. If accelerating the developer feedback loop is important to you (and you don't have preview envs yet), then this post is for you.

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* Preview environments are only a lot of work if done DIY. A good managed service with preview envs, like Northflank, removes all of the pain from set up and management.

Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) this is not the first Doom CAPTCHA.

Good, nerdy fun arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

You might enjoy The Dark Star Trilogy. It's an AfroFuturist Fantasy series, which is a new and interesting setting for me.

Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters Efficient swimming and feeding make the creatures a model for human machines.

A bit of fun and interesting science news arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Neat!
> “Limbo is designed from the ground up to have a WASM build, and already has a VFS implementation that works with popular tools like Drizzle without any changes.”

Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?

SQLite & Rust enthusiasts rejoice turso.tech/blog/introdu...

Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials Multifaceted, high-precision campaign targets malicious and benevolent hackers alike.

FYI! It's a good time to check your security setup. arstechnica.com/security/202...

You might like “The Anatomy of Story” by John Truby. Goes over storytelling aspects, and points out those same elements in popular movies. It changed how I look at storytelling.

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A good looking book bundle for any SRE or Platform Engineer.
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Spotify is doing their year end wrap up, and I think I need some time to process whatever this means

A page from Daniel Kahneman's book, "Thinking Fast, and Slow". Shows the research of Paul Slovic, who studied the effect of risk on people's perception of technology.

@jonobacon.bsky.social thanks for the exercise on the CNCF Marketing call today. I'm writing to share this research from Paul Slovic, which suggests that in addition to avoiding calamity, our brains are wired to relate risks with benefits. Always good to discuss both together.

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Solid haul of coding books on the cheap
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