Issue #225
Show your work
In an age where software is cheap and human-written content is scarce, I want to remind you to share what you learned!
July 20, 2026
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Issue #224
AI is just a tool
Here's your reminder that AI is just a tool, not a viable candidate for your replacement.
July 13, 2026
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Issue #223
MicroVMs as GitHub runners? Yes, and it works.
Lambda MicroVMs have landed and the community is already putting them to creative use. Plus, Claude Sonnet 5 analysis, serverless email …
July 06, 2026
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Issue #222
Voice-controlled humanoid robots 😱
The time is here where we actually can control fleets of humanoid robots by our voice. What's next?!
June 29, 2026
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Issue #221
Finally, native S3 metadata that works!
AWS launched S3 annotations last week, a new way to store mutable, queryable data on your objects. Hooray!
June 22, 2026
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Issue #220
Filling the AI Experience Gap
AI has changed everything. What does that mean for the next generation of software developers?
June 15, 2026
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Issue #219
MCP with a user interface
A cool emerging part of the MCP standard allows you to return UI components to clients as part of your answer, leading to richer …
June 08, 2026
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Issue #218
Zipping 15GB of S3 files in Lambda in 215 seconds
You can do a whole lot more in Lambda than you realized with proper memory management.
June 01, 2026
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Issue #217
Agent development has changed… again.
In the past two years, tech has seen an incredibly fast cycle on how we build AI agents. Things have changed again, but in a good way.
May 25, 2026
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