For people who keep asking what to build - Build your own operating system - Build your database - Build your virtual machine - Build your web server - Build your own game engine - Build your compiler - Build your own programming language - Build your own browser - Build your own blockchain - Build your own encryption algorithm - Build your own CPU emulator - Build your own file system - Build your own container runtime - Build your own package manager - Build your own shell - Build your own window manager - Build your own GUI toolkit - Build your own text editor - Build your own IDE - Build your own version control system - Build your own network protocol - Build your own operating system kernel in assembly - Build your own scheduler - Build your own memory allocator - Build your own hypervisor - Build your own microkernel - Build your own compiler backend (LLVM target) - Build your own query language - Build your own cache system (like Redis) - Build your own message broker (like Kafka) - Build your own search engine - Build your own machine learning framework - Build your own graphics renderer (rasterizer or ray tracer) - Build your own physics engine - Build your own scripting language - Build your own audio engine - Build your own database driver - Build your own networking stack (TCP/IP implementation) - Build your own API gateway - Build your own reverse proxy - Build your own load balancer - Build your own CI/CD system - Build your own operating system bootloader - Build your own container orchestrator (like Kubernetes) - Build your own distributed file system - Build your own key -value store - Build your own authentication server (OAuth2/OpenID Connect) - Build your own operating system scheduler - Build your own compiler optimizer - Build your own disassembler - Build your own debugger - Build your own profiler - Build your own static code analyzer - Build your own runtime (like Node.js) - Build your own scripting sandbox - Build your own browser engine (HTML/CSS/JS parser and renderer) - Build your own blockchain consensus algorithm - Build your own zero -knowledge proof system - Build your own operating system for embedded devices

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days out of pure frustration. Now it powers every major software project on earth. Full story beginner intro: dev.to/tene/introduction-to-… #git #programming #beginners

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npm v12 needlessly decided to block unsupported keys in .npmrc (breaking pnpm) so pnpm v11 turns around and drops support for most .npmrc field and all npm_config_ env vars and now the ecosystem is irrevokably fragmented despite sharing the npm registry. good job everyone 😞

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B scales better. GET /api/v1/users?status=active because users is the resource and status is just a filter. Why? New status ↓ No new endpoint You can easily add: ?status=active ?status=inactive ?role=admin Key lesson Paths = Resources Query Params = Filters For a scalable REST API, I’d choose B.

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If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Chrome extensions are changing for good! 🚀 Ready for the Manifest V3 era? I’ve broken down what the transition means for users and devs from Service Workers to the ad-blocker api shakeup. 🛠️🌐 Read the guide: dev.to/tene/unpacking-manife… #ManifestV3 #WebDev

🌌 Tales from the Void: Our May 2026 Recap Don't miss out on the news: 🧡 VoidZero is now part of Cloudflare ⚡ Rolldown got its first stable release 🔒 Vite security patches 🧪 Vitest going engine-agnostic 🦀 Oxfmt up to 25% faster 👀 and more from the community Full recap 👇 voidzero.dev/posts/whats-new…

👀 Is this Flow, or TypeScript? Is Flow coming back? - Flow syntax aligns with TypeScript - Flow has pattern matching - Useful React hooks/component/renders syntax - Compiler has been recently ported to Rust I'll keep an eye on it for you, but this is promising!

In 2026, you are not a real developer if you don't write 100k-line PRs

⚛️ React repos just moved! GitHub org: /facebook ➡️ /react This reflects the transition to the React Foundation (which will likely be today's newsletter headline BTW)

JS devs - Time to celebrate 🎊 🥂 All modern package managers will block postinstall scripts by default : 📦 npm v12 🆕 📦 pnpm 10 📦 Yarn 4.14 📦 Bun 📦 Deno 📦 Aube This doesn't solve everything, but should greatly reduces the ability for supply chain worms to spread

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