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Programmer Weekly (Issue 276 November 6 2025)
Rahul Chaudhary
November 06, 2025
Welcome to issue 276 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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Quote of the Week
"Documentation is like s*x: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing." ― Dick Brandon
Reading List
AI has undermined trust in remote technical interviews by allowing candidates to present flawless, AI-generated answers, making it hard to distinguish genuine ability from prompted output. In response, companies are shifting interviews back to in-person formats to better assess authentic human reasoning and problem-solving skills.
A well-designed URL is more than just an address; it acts as a state container that preserves, shares, and communicates the exact application state, enabling shareability, bookmarkability, and resilience without extra storage mechanisms. URLs serve as interfaces and contracts between the user and application, making state management transparent and reliable, while best practices emphasize keeping URLs clean, meaningful, and consistent without sensitive data or excessive complexity.
The paper presents the first comprehensive performance analysis of WebAssembly using Browsix-Wasm, which allows running unmodified Unix applications in browsers. It finds that while WebAssembly runs faster than JavaScript, it is on average 1.45 to 1.55 times slower than native code due to increased register pressure, extra branches, and larger code size, identifying specific causes and optimization opportunities.
What we can learn from the three biggest incidents in the software industry, this year.
The article details how a company saved over $1.2 million annually by migrating from AWS to bare metal infrastructure, achieving higher availability, reduced latency, and reinvesting savings into AI-driven automation. It addresses common concerns about migration costs, single points of failure, hardware lifecycle, and ongoing operations, emphasizing that bare metal is cost-effective and reliable for steady, high-baseload workloads, while still using the cloud selectively for elasticity and specialized services.
A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
The post presents Absurd, a minimalist SQL-only library enabling durable workflows using only PostgreSQL, no external services or extensions needed. It leverages Postgres's native queue and state storage features to run reliable, long-lived tasks that can resume after crashes by decomposing tasks into steps recorded and replayed from database checkpoints.
Watch, Listen
The video features Martin von Zweigbergk discussing the architecture, future plans, and open-source development of Jujutsu (JJ), a Git-compatible version control system at Google. The talk covers JJ's design, its open beta status, upcoming general availability for Linux, and integration with internal Google tools, emphasizing its simplicity, power, and future enhancements .
The video features Anthropic AI engineers discussing Claude Code, a terminal-based AI coding assistant that integrates deeply with a user's workflow. They cover its origin, design philosophy focusing on tool use and dual-use features, how it supports feature planning, development, and code review, as well as its extensibility and the emerging engineering paradigm it enables.
Nik and Michael discuss the concept of gapless sequences — when you might want one, why sequences in Postgres can have gaps, and an idea or two if you do want them.
The episode explains how eBPF enables unified, low-overhead monitoring and continuous profiling across all components of large distributed Linux systems, helping organizations like Spotify debug and optimize performance in real time. It explores eBPF’s security, data management, and how tools like Pyroscope and Pixie make deep observability possible without extensive code changes.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
A modern static site generator by the creators of Material for MkDocs.
A Streaming, Replicated, Reactive Multi-Modal Database for the Edge.
A small, flexible, and expandable JSON query language.
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens. Spec, benchmarks & TypeScript implementation.
Infrastructure-as-Code Platform Built for the Future.
SQLite Graph Database Extension.
Create AI Agents in a No-Code Visual Builder or TypeScript SDK with full 2-way sync. For shipping AI assistants and multi-agent AI workflows.
monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming.
TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux.
Zeropod is a Kubernetes runtime that checkpoints idle containers to disk, scales them down to zero resources, and restores them within milliseconds on incoming connections, using CRIU and eBPF to maintain application state and seamless availability while saving resources.
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