"Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." and 4 more

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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.

Seems like every website wants us to stop using passwords. There is a replacement we are being asked to use instead called passkeys. This should be a tad concerning if passwords are familiar to you and you don’t fully understand these nebulous passkeys....

8 days ago • 1,372 likes • 229 comments • The Hack

Hone Those Survival Skils

Depending on where you live, you will face different advantages and disadvantages. If you live in New York or LA, God have mercy on you! ;)...

19 days ago • 2,647 likes • 253 comments • Cheesy Mouse

Neeraj's Substack

5 GitHub repos that went off this week (Oct 10 to 16), and how to actually use them

Here are five repos that took off on GitHub this week: what each one does, who it’s for, how to install it, what happened when I ran it, and my honest read on which ones deserve your time. Star counts are as of October 16....

2 days ago • 8 likes • Build With Neej

Agentic Verification

If you give an AI agent a way to independently verify its work, that can heavily improve the quality of output. Agents write code “much better on average at scale”. The “at scale” part comes from verification. Agents make checking cheap....

5 days ago • 135 likes • 18 comments • Addy Osmani

The Pragmatic Engineer

The state of the tech industry in 2026

I recently delivered the keynote at the LDX3 engineering leadership conference in New York, attended by 2,000+ engineering leaders, CTOs, Director+ and Staff+ engineering folks, in which I attempted to create a snapshot of where the tech industry is at thi...

12 days ago • 564 likes • 19 comments • Gergely Orosz

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