by HELLO EVERYONE!!! It’s January 9th, 2026, and you are reading the 93rd edition and the First year’s edition of Codeminer42’s tech news report. Let’s check out what the tech world showed us on this 2025 ending and 2026 beginning!
New Ruby Lang website
Just check it out the new Ruby language website!
Broken Claude Max – by Piotr Yordanov
EXTRA EXTRA: Anthropic are blocking third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions, sparking frustration among developers and users. It explains how integrations broke, leaving customers confused and projects disrupted. The move is seen as Anthropic tightening control over its ecosystem, prioritizing direct subscriptions over community-driven tools. Click on this GitHub issue to explore the full debate and its implications for the AI developer community.
How AI Wiped Out 80% of Tailwind’s Revenue – by Edy Silva
This article from Edy reveals how the rise of AI and LLMs drastically reduced traffic to Tailwind CSS documentation, causing an 80% drop in revenue for their premium Tailwind PLUS offering and leading to major layoffs. A sobering look at AI’s disruptive power in the dev tools space. Click to read the full story!
Codeminer42’s 2025 Year in Review: Community & Open Source – by Edy Silva
This post from Codeminer42 highlights an amazing 2025 filled with global conference talks, workshops on topics like PWAs, Node.js, and DDD, plus strong open-source contributions including a team member becoming a Node.js core collaborator. Inspiring stuff for community-driven devs. Check it out!
A Ruby Regular Expression Engine – by Kevin Newton
This interesting post introduces exreg, a pure-Ruby Unicode regex engine using a fast Thompson NFA VM to prevent ReDoS attacks, with great Unicode support and plans for even more optimizations. A cool deep dive for Ruby enthusiasts! Click to learn more.
ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 – by Max Bernstein
This article announces ZJIT, the new built-in JIT compiler in Ruby 4.0 from the Shopify team, promising major performance gains through larger compilation units, better optimizations, and improved stability. Exciting news for Ruby performance lovers
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review – by Andy Pavlo
This interesting article offers a comprehensive retrospective on 2025’s database world, featuring PostgreSQL’s continued rise, huge acquisitions (like Databricks-Neon), the boom of Model Context Protocol for AI-database integration, and emerging columnar format battles. A must-read for data folks
2025 JavaScript Rising Stars – by Michael Rambeau
This post crowns n8n as the biggest winner with massive GitHub growth, while showcasing the dominance of AI-powered tools, unified backends, and Bun’s rise amid security challenges in the JS ecosystem. A fun and insightful snapshot of JS trends. Go explore the stars!
MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
This article delivers detailed benchmarks showing PostgreSQL strongly outperforming MySQL in throughput (especially writes) and significantly lower latency across most read/write scenarios, with only a few edge cases favoring MySQL. Essential reading before your next DB choice. Click to see the numbers!
Building UI Components Correctly in the Age of AI – by Pushkar Anand
This article stresses that while AI can generate JSX fast, true quality comes from mastering semantic HTML, native elements, accessibility (ARIA/keyboard), and proper form integration to avoid subtle bugs. It showcases practical examples and the author’s no-frills-ui project. Dive deeper and level up your component game!
Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS – by Artyom Bologov
This interesting post shares super simple CSS tricks to kill unwanted horizontal scrollbars on mobile and small screens, covering pre/code blocks, images, tables, and long words with overflow handling. Perfect quick wins for cleaner blogs. Check it out and fix your layout today!
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand – by Christian Ekrem
This interesting article demystifies functors (map), applicatives, and monads using everyday Elm types like Maybe, List, and Result, showing you’re already using these patterns without the scary Haskell jargon. A refreshing, approachable explanation. Click through to see the light!
Choosing the Right Node.js Job Queue – by Jeff Morhous
This article compares popular Node.js job queue options, strongly recommending BullMQ (Redis-backed) for most use cases thanks to performance, retries, and scalability, while discussing alternatives like Agenda and message brokers. Great guidance for backend devs. Head over to the link for the full breakdown!
Critical MongoDB memory leak flaw ‘MongoBleed’ exploited in the wild – by Bill Mann
This article reveals MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), a severe unauthenticated memory leak in MongoDB zlib handling that exposes sensitive data and is actively exploited in the wild. Urgent patch info included. Don’t miss this critical security alert!
Istio Spring Boot Library Released – by Piotr Minkowski
This post announces a new Spring Boot library that auto-generates Istio resources (VirtualService, Gateway, etc.) via annotations, simplifying service mesh setup with features like fault injection and traffic routing. Very useful for Java devs in Kubernetes. Click to explore the release!
How to compile JavaScript to C with Static Hermes – by Devon’s Blog
This interesting article explains how Static Hermes compiles JavaScript to efficient C code using Hermes AOT, enabling standalone binaries with fast startup and native integration. Great for performance-critical or embedded use cases. Check the link for the technical how-to!
Languages, Tools & Framework releases
Pry 0.16
The popular runtime developer console and IRB alternative now supports Ruby 4.0.
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And that’s all for this week! Wish you all a great weekend, happy coding and Happy New Year!
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