by HELLO EVERYONE!!! It’s August 1st, 2025, and you are reading the 72nd edition of Codeminer42’s tech news report. Let’s check out what the tech world showed us this week!
The 2025 Developer Survey – by Stack Overflow
The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with over 49,000 responses from 177 countries, highlights trends in software development, focusing on AI tools, LLMs, and community platforms. JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain popular, Rust is admired, and developers don’t see AI as a job threat.
Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos – by Arthur Pastel
Arthur Pastel discusses integrating benchmarks in CI pipelines to reduce cloud-related performance noise. The article emphasizes CodSpeed’s approach to reliable benchmarking, improving development workflows with consistent metrics.
Vibe code is legacy code – by Steve Krouse
Steve Krouse critiques "vibe coding," where developers use AI-generated code without understanding it, arguing it creates unmaintainable legacy code. He advocates for intentional, comprehensible coding practices. Check it out!
The Useless useCallback – by Dominik Dorfmeister
Dominik Dorfmeister explains why React’s useCallback hook is often overused, causing unnecessary complexity. He suggests relying on React’s optimizations unless performance issues arise. It is a good article for beginners and advanced developers who use React.js library.
When Software Engineers Think They Need More Focus Time – by Johanna Larsson
Johanna Larsson argues that software engineers may not need more uninterrupted focus time but better collaboration and task prioritisation to enhance productivity and reduce context-switching.
Announcing Passive Queue: The Rails Background Job System That Transcends Processing – by Maciej Mensfeld
Maciej Mensfeld introduces Passive Queue, a Rails background job system designed for simplicity and zero-execution overhead, offering a zen-like approach to job processing.
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed – by Jacob Jackson
Jacob Jackson humorously details deliberately slowing PostgreSQL by misconfiguring settings like WAL checkpoints, sharing logs to illustrate performance degradation.
How Amazon S3 Achieves Strong Consistency Without Sacrificing 99.99% Availability 🌟 – by Neo Kim
Neo Kim explores Amazon S3’s strong consistency model, detailing how it maintains 99.99% availability through architectural innovations, balancing performance and reliability.
You Are The BIOS Now: Building A Hypervisor In Rust With KVM – by Julian Goldstein
Julian Goldstein describes building a hypervisor in Rust using KVM, offering insights into low-level system programming and virtualization for enhanced control and security.
Micro-slices in Hanami – by Paweł Świątkowski
Paweł Świątkowski introduces micro-slices in Hanami, a Ruby framework, explaining how they enable modular, lightweight application architecture for better maintainability.
Languages, Tools & Framework releases
Launching Chakra UI MCP Server – by Chakra team
The Chakra UI team announces the MCP Server, a server that provides a comprehensive knowledge base about Chakra UI v3 to AI agents.
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And that’s all for this week! Wish you all a great weekend and happy coding!
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