Week 38 · 14 Sep to 20 Sep 2026v1
What's Happening
The latest from web, mobile, AI and infra this week. A few minutes, a few times a week, is all it takes to keep up.
This week that came to 38 videos, 12 podcast episodes, 16 releases and 10 new repos, from 284 sources. Follow along with RSS
Top of the week
31x usual viewsS3 doesn't work the way you think
18x usual viewsBuild a real-time voice AI agent with Google ADK and Gemini Live API
9x usual viewsJev - The Ultimate Classification Model?
10x usual viewsRecursive Self-Improvement: from Auto Research to Superintelligence — Richard Socher, Recursive
9x usual viewsBuild Your First iPhone App with Claude & Xcode 27
Everyone's talking about
Names that a lot of different sources suddenly started mentioning this week.
Jev
MCP
- BlogWebMCP support now available in mcp-handler
- PodcastNo Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
- BlogMore data, smaller responses: what's new in Cypress Cloud MCP
- BlogMCP was always a bad idea?
- BlogShould you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
Gemini
Shipped
16 projects shipped something this week. Nothing major, so no scary upgrades this week.
- New features
- Reanimated 4.7.0, Node.js 26.9.0 and VS Code 1.138.0. New stuff to play with, should be a safe update.
- Just fixes
- pnpm 11.27.1, Claude Code 2.1.278, Svelte 5.57.1, uv 0.12.17, Jest 30.5.2, Ollama 0.34.2, Flutter 3.47.5, Deno 2.9.7, Vue 3.5.43, herdr 0.9.1, Ruff 0.16.8, Rolldown 1.2.9 and Biome 2.5.14. Bug fixes, update whenever suits.
See all 16 releases
- pnpmpatch11.27.1Patch Changes pn , pnpx , and pnx now run the pnpm installed alongside them. They used to look pnpm up on PATH . That failed when the...
- Claude Codepatch2.1.278Changed auto mode for Claude API and Enterprise users, and on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and gateways, to default to the...
- Sveltepatch5.57.1Patch Changes fix: cancel deferred event listeners during cleanup ( #18749 ) fix: preserve global CSS in components without scopable...
- uvpatch0.12.17Released on . Enhancements Reject unsupported Git archive paths in lockfiles with a clear error instead of...
- Reanimatedminor4.7.0Key changes New layout animations engine is the default Layout animations now run on the new engine by default. If the new engine causes a...
- Jestpatch30.5.2Features [@jest/transform] Strip TypeScript types with Node when no transformer claims a .ts , .mts or .cts file ( #16421 ) Fixes...
- Ollamapatch0.34.2Added first-run setup when running ollama , with options to sign in or continue locally. Setup completion is shared with the...
- Flutterpatch3.47.5Adds the section for , tracked by #192828 . Agent authored info Covers the cherry-picks that landed on...
- Denopatch2.9.7fix(audit): honor configured CA stores ( #36728 ) fix(cache): make HTTP authority paths unambiguous ( #36356 ) fix(cli):...
- Vuepatch3.5.43For stable releases, please refer to .md for details. For pre-releases, please refer to .md of the minor branch.
- herdrpatch0.9.1Added Control agents, panes, workspaces, and worktrees on saved SSH machines with herdr --machine . Commands use the saved machine's...
- Node.jsminor26.9.0(SEMVER-MINOR) crypto : add a generic MAC API (Filip Skokan) #65553 - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto...
- Ruffpatch0.16.8Released on . Bug fixes Visit functional TypedDict keyword arguments correctly ( #28584 ) [ flake8-simplify ]...
- Rolldownpatch1.2.9🚀 Features add MODULE_LEVEL_DIRECTIVE warning ( #10791 ) by @sapphi-red 🐛 Bug Fixes handle CommonJS exports through...
- Biomepatch2.5.14Patch Changes #9022 Thanks @dyc3 ! - Added the nursery rule noReturnInFinally . This rule disallows return statements in...
- VS Codeminor1.138.0https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_138
Try it early
Betas and release candidates from the week, worth a play in a side project before they land for real.
5 betas and release candidates out this week. Only worth your time if you use the project, and never in production.
- herdr
- Ollama 0.34.3, run AI models locally on your own machine.
- Vue 3.6.0, the progressive UI framework.
- React Native 0.88.0, React for iOS and Android apps.
- Expo SDK 58, the toolkit most React Native apps are built with.
See all 5 betas
- herdrbetaherdr Preview buildPreview build - View changes
- Ollamabeta0.34.3server: allow registry cross-host redirects among allowlisted hosts (…
- Vuebeta3.6.0For stable releases, please refer to .md for details. For pre-releases, please refer to .md of the minor branch.
- React Nativebeta0.88.0Added EventTarget : Enable the imperative EventTarget API ( addEventListener , removeEventListener , dispatchEvent ) on native view refs in...
- ExpobetaSDK 58Expo SDK 58 Beta is now availableLearn about the changes and how to upgrade
AI
7x usual viewsJev Explained: Demos and Use Cases
5x usual viewsAstra for Law: Frontier intelligence built for your practice.
4x usual viewsOpen Jev Models Are Here!!
4x usual viewsGoogle ADK 2.0 workflows tutorial: Building reliable multi-agent systems
3x usual viewsWhy Your AI Generates Crap Code - And How to Fix It
3x usual viewsHow I'm Actually Using AI These Days
3x usual viewsWhat's new in the Gemini Live API
3x usual viewsI Think Jev Changes How We Use AI
Web
Mobile
20x usual viewsThe Secret Monetization of a $22M/month App
3x usual viewsiPhone Duo Group Lab | 9/16/26 | Meet with Apple
4x usual viewsRTC.ON 2026 DAY 1
3x usual viewsWhat's New in Kotlin 2.4.20
How Marc Rousavy Turned Open Source Into a €20M+ Agency
Wild times we live in
Detect regressions in your mobile app before your users do
My Full App Development Tech Stack In 2026
Platform updates
- Get ready with the latest beta releases
- Introducing the AndroidX Security State Libraries: A Unified View of Device Security
- You don't need a Mac to develop iOS apps
- Get your subscriptions ready for iOS 27
- Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks
- Build for iPhone Duo with new resources
- Android Weekly Issue #745
- Build Siri experiences across apps, Part 1: Onscreen Awareness
- Building a Camera-Aware Voice AI App on Android
- Legend State: The Fastest React State Library You’re Probably Not Using
- SwiftUI Agent Skill: Install and use with AI coding tools
- How native SwiftUI controls look different in iOS 26
Testing & QA
Backend & Infra
10x usual viewsWe fixed search in postgres
2x usual viewsLLM Inference Is a Memory Problem, Not a Compute One
This Design Pattern Replaces an Entire Class Hierarchy
GitHub situation continues
Reusable Undo System - Tsoding
CI/CD for Beginners
Your HomeLab DNS Needs a Backup // Technitium
A deep dive into Rust futures
From the community
The dev stories that got the most points on Hacker News that week, plus the top of Lobsters.
- Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations2.4K points on HN · 267 comments
- Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?Discussed on Lobsters
- Introducing System One Models and Jev2K points on HN · 520 comments
- AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible1.9K points on HN · 961 comments
- I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago1.4K points on HN · 318 comments
- Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP1.2K points on HN · 722 comments
- Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust970 points on HN · 404 comments
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'954 points on HN · 841 comments
Podcasts
Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk
Apocalypse Not Now
ClickHouse Managed Postgres
The AI magic words
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
How to get discovered in AI search
Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel
SE Radio 738: Milan Milanovic on the Laws of Software Engineering
#563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs
For Want of a Resistor
Trending on GitHub
New repos created that week with AI topics on them, sorted by stars. GitHub doesn't have an API for its trending page, so this is the closest I could get to it.
- awlevin/typesafe-computer-use
Computer use for about $0.0002 a step: OCR the screen, classify the next action with TypeSafe, click. macOS.
- ethanplusai/astra-flash-orchestrator
Astra plans and reviews; DeepSeek Flash builds. A native Codex workflow with phased tasks, verification, safe installation and reversible setup.
- Oldcircle/geo-sleuth
An agent skill that finds where a photo was taken — OpenStreetMap geometry, elevation skylines, satellite imagery and street view — and shows its work. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot.
- ruc-datalab/EvoOntology
EvoOntology: A Self-Evolving Ontology Layer for Data Agents ⚙️ EvoOntology插件为Claude Code/Codex 建立&进化本体层
- LockedinLabs-AI/agent-console
Local-first observability for AI coding agents. Every Claude Code and Codex session's tokens, cache, models and cost, on this machine and every machine you connect through a self-hosted team hub. Presenting mode, policy hooks, Apple-signed and notarized macOS builds, attested releases. MIT.
- Qiuner/QCode
An explorable island world to learn AI coding and build real projects with AI agents. Powered by DeepSeek Harness.
- Yinsongxu/LLM2Jev
Turn local language models into Jev-style structured decision models. Get results from text and images with prefill alone—no token-by-token decoding required.
- ekzhang/openjev-sglang
Jev-compatible API endpoint based on open models (prefill-only)
- 0xNatoshi/jev-codex-router
Per-turn model & reasoning routing for Codex, driven by Jev (TypeSafe System One): picks the model, thinking depth and speed mode for every turn.
- sno-ai/sno-station
Sno Station — your Claude Code and Codex working as one squad on your own machine. Shared encrypted memory, agent-to-agent messaging (Reach), squad skills for handoff and cross-vendor review, and a nightly loop that rewrites the agents' own skills with your approval. Open source, no daemon, no cloud required. Assembled in public.
What happened
Getting last week...
Everything here is pulled from 284 feeds and refreshed each morning (last on 27 Sep), so if something looks off it's more likely a feed doing something odd than my taste in videos.