Sunday. Coffee. Good reads. Here is what is worth your attention this week across development, AI, security, and hardware.
The State of JavaScript 2025 Results — The annual survey results are worth reading cover to cover. Vite is dominant. React still leads frameworks but satisfaction is declining. TypeScript is now the default, not the exception.
You Probably Do Not Need a Microservices Architecture — A well-argued piece on why most teams under 50 engineers are better served by a well-structured monolith. The operational complexity of microservices is real and often underestimated.
CSS Nesting Is Now Baseline — Native CSS nesting without a preprocessor is supported in all major browsers. If you are still reaching for Sass just for nesting, you can stop.
Scaling Laws Are Not Dead — A technical post arguing that scaling compute and data still produces predictable capability improvements, despite recent speculation otherwise. Dense reading but important for understanding where models are heading.
The Hidden Costs of Running Local LLMs — An honest accounting of what it actually costs in electricity, hardware depreciation, and time to run models locally vs paying for API access. Spoiler: the math is closer than you think for heavy users.
How Attackers Are Using AI to Find Vulnerabilities — A red team shares their methodology for using LLMs to assist in code review for security issues. The same techniques defenders can use. Sobering read.
Stop Storing JWTs in localStorage — A clear explanation of why httpOnly cookies are the correct storage mechanism for authentication tokens and exactly what attacks localStorage-stored tokens are vulnerable to.
DDR5 prices ticked down another 2-3% this week in US markets. Still no crash but the trend is now consistently downward for three weeks running. First real signal of a cycle turn.
It is Sunday. You are not supposed to be thinking about code. You are thinking about code. You open your laptop "just to check one thing." Three hours later.
Enjoy your Sunday. The code will be there Monday. Close the laptop.
