Single-thread your mind 🧵, Next.js built in one week 🔧, halving Node memory ⚡️

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With  TLDR Dev 2026-02-25 QA bottlenecks holding you back? Ship more code with autonomous testing agents (Sponsor) In 2026, code is cheap. But QA bottlenecks are expensive. You can't fix manual QA by throwing more bodies at it. You need an AI counterweight to validate every release. 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This is due to a brittle schema leading to incompatible implementations of features like TOTP and Passkeys, storage inefficiencies from whole-file rewrites and base64 encoding, and governance challenges due to centralized control. A SQLite-based format secured with SQLCipher can address these shortcomings. Linear walkthroughs (4 minute read) Claude Code and Showboat can be used to generate structured documentation for a SwiftUI app. By executing shell commands to extract real code snippets, agents can create accurate walkthroughs. This pattern can help understand vibe-coded projects and prevent hallucinations. 🧠 Opinions & Advice Aesthetics of Single Threading (4 minute read) Modern multitasking is actually inefficient context switching. The human brain is like an old single-core processor that becomes exhausted from constantly swapping tasks. This thrashing depletes mental energy, and instead, "single threading" (deep immersion in one task) is better. Code has always been the easy part (4 minute read) Code has always been the easiest part of software development, with the true value lying in the complete human-technology system that delivers and evolves products to meet customer needs. While AI is rapidly driving the cost of code to near zero, this fundamental shift isn't new. Past technological advancements also demanded rethinking social contracts and team workflows. 🚀 Launches & Tools Security belongs in the IDE (Sponsor) The only way to catch up with the speed of modern code is to move security into the IDE. Checkmarx Developer Assist is an IDE-native security assistant that identifies and fixes security issues as code is generated. No need to wait for CI/CD or external scans. Watch a 3 minute demo (or try it for free) How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (18 minute read) Vinext is an experimental, AI-powered reimplementation of the Next.js framework built on Vite for Cloudflare Workers. This drop-in replacement was developed by one engineer and an AI model in under a week for about $1,100. It has fast production builds and small client bundles. Pi (Website) Pi is a minimal and extensible terminal coding harness designed to adapt to individual developer workflows. It does this by allowing users to extend its functionality with TypeScript extensions, skills, and prompt templates, which can be bundled into shareable packages via npm or git. Pi integrates with over fifteen AI providers and hundreds of models. Emdash (GitHub Repo) Emdash is an open-source agentic development environment that allows developers to run and test multiple coding agents in parallel. It supports 21 CLI providers and uses Git worktrees to keep changes isolated and clean. 🎁 Miscellaneous We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design (10 minute read) METR's first study in early 2025 on the impact of AI on developer productivity found that AI tools caused a 19% slowdown in task completion for experienced open-source developers. To re-evaluate AI's evolving impact, a new, larger experiment was launched in August 2025 using the latest AI tools. However, this second study yielded unreliable results due to selection bias, as many developers refused to participate without AI or chose only tasks where AI was highly beneficial. As a result, they are rethinking their methodology. GPT-5.3-Codex available on OpenRouter (Website) According to OpenRouter's new GPT-5.3-Codex stats, OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex has a 400,000-token context window and 25% faster performance compared to its predecessors. It has state-of-the-art results on SWE-Bench Pro, and it supports agentic workflows, terminal proficiency, and cybersecurity vulnerability identification. ⚡ Quick Links TLDR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI ($250k-$300k, Fully Remote) As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more. Limits (Website) Limits is a control layer for AI agents using deterministic policies to intercept actions. Stripe publishes 2025 annual letter and announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees (9 minute read) Stripe announced a $159B tender offer to provide employee liquidity and published its 2025 annual letter, showing growth and profitability, new business performance, and strategic investments in AI and stablecoin infrastructure. How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage (9 minute read) Turbopuffer developed a scalable and reliable distributed indexing job queue by using a single JSON file on object storage and a stateless broker, achieving 10x lower tail latency and at-least-once delivery guarantees. Macky (Website) Macky allows for secure remote access to your Mac's native terminal and integrated AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex directly from your iPhone. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/d0af4569/3 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of web developers and engineering decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here, create your own role or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! 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