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Docker’s Best Security Feature Is Now FREE

Docker just made a major shift by opening up their hardened images to everyone. This video breaks down why your base image matters more than you think, and how hidden vulnerabilities sneak in from ...

9,088 views • 414 likes • 9 comments • January 11, 2026

This Framework Might Be the FUTURE of Cross-Platform Apps (Dioxus)

Build web, desktop, iOS, and Android apps from a single Rust codebase using Dioxus. In this video, we walk through what Dioxus is, how it works, and build a real cross-platform app in just a few mi...

35,045 views • 1,242 likes • 148 comments • January 11, 2026

Stack Overflow is Dead (Here's Why)

Stack Overflow went from essential to irrelevant. AI played a role, but the real story started years earlier. Let’s break down the graph, the moderation, and why the future of the web feels… worse....

9,193 views • 255 likes • 77 comments • January 10, 2026

The Free Open Source Jira Killer Devs Love

Is this a Free Alternative to Jira and Linear? In this video, we take a quick look at Plane — a free, open-source project management tool built with TypeScript, React, Django, and PostgreSQL. Plan...

53,049 views • 1,442 likes • 178 comments • January 10, 2026

Anthropic's Latest Move: Why OpenCode Users Are Worried

Anthropic's recent decision to restrict Claude API access to third party tools using their subscription has left OpenCode users scrambling. If you're paying for a Claude subscription hoping to powe...

31,829 views • 741 likes • 98 comments • January 09, 2026

Claude Now Builds Custom Interfaces to Plan Your Life

Claude Canvas transforms Claude from a simple text chatbot into a powerful personal assistant that builds custom interactive interfaces. Currently a proof of concept David Siegel, Claude Canvas spa...

19,129 views • 491 likes • 36 comments • January 09, 2026

Tailwind is Dying... (this is bad!)

AI is reshaping open source, and Tailwind CSS might be one of its biggest warning signs. What does this mean for the future of open source sustainability. Tailwind site: https://tailwindcss.com/ ...

44,513 views • 1,243 likes • 251 comments • January 08, 2026

Ship LLM Apps Locally with Dify

Building LLM apps usually means rebuilding the same things over and over again: prompts, RAG pipelines, workflows, tool calls, APIs, all that fun stuff. In this video, we take a clear look at Dify...

7,432 views • 196 likes • 15 comments • January 07, 2026

The Open Models Have Caught Up (MiniMax M2.1 & GLM 4.7 Review)

Open-weight models are no longer “almost good.” Minimax and GLM are now competing with Claude and Gemini, and for way less money. ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://be...

53,617 views • 259 likes • 47 comments • January 07, 2026

Why Meta's VL-JEPA Destroys All LLMs

VL-JEPA from Meta is a vision-language model that works differently from other LLMs developed under Yann LeCun's guidance. This model represents a breakthrough in how AI can understand and predict ...

28,417 views • 819 likes • 61 comments • January 06, 2026

Airtable, But Open Source

NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative made for developers. It turns your existing SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, and more) into a spreadsheet-style UI, while you keep full control o...

49,012 views • 1,373 likes • 142 comments • January 03, 2026

I Let AI Argue About a Stock

We look at TradingAgents, a popular open-source GitHub project that simulates a trading firm using a team of AI agents. Instead of one AI model making a decision, this uses multiple specialized AI...

4,561 views • 162 likes • 7 comments • December 31, 2025

Claude Ralph - The Bizarre Anthropic Plugin That Every Developer Is Missing

The Ralph Wiggum technique (from Geoffrey Huntley) is essentially a continuous AI agent loop that repeatedly feeds Claude the same prompt, allowing it to iteratively improve its work until completi...

116,472 views • 2,678 likes • 98 comments • December 30, 2025

Goodbye AI Cloud Bills... Exo Runs AI on Your Own Devices

Turn your everyday devices into a local AI supercomputer. No cloud. No data leaks. No insane GPU bills. In this video, we look at Exo, the open-source project that lets you run massive AI models (...

41,272 views • 1,164 likes • 69 comments • December 28, 2025

GitHub’s New Secret Copilot Model Is Shockingly Fast

GitHub quietly rolled out a new Copilot model called Raptor Mini, with almost no benchmarks or technical details. We tested it by pushing it beyond “small tasks” and asked it to build a full real-t...

9,051 views • 272 likes • 12 comments • December 27, 2025

GTA Vice City Rin in Browser Thanks to WASM

This video shows Grand Theft Auto: Vice City running directly in a web browser, compiled using WebAssembly with no downloads or emulation needed. We explore how this was accomplished and address th...

23,731 views • 512 likes • 37 comments • December 24, 2025

An Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs

For a long time, text-to-speech has basically meant paid APIs and cloud billing. In this video, I’m taking a real look at Chatterbox. An MIT-licensed, open-source TTS model from Resemble AI that y...

110,052 views • 3,940 likes • 264 comments • December 23, 2025

10 NEW CSS Features You Need To Know For 2026

CSS is getting way more powerful than most people realize. From custom functions and conditionals to zero-JS carousels and scroll logic, here are 10 features you should know for 2026. 🔗 Relevant L...

76,229 views • 5,464 likes • 173 comments • December 22, 2025

I Found the Neovim Replacement You've Been Waiting For (It's Called Helix)

Struggling with Neovim's endless plugin configuration and setup headaches? Enter Helix editor, the Rust-based terminal editor that actually works out of the box. In this video, I'll show you why He...

14,772 views • 269 likes • 42 comments • December 21, 2025

Why 90% of Parked Domains are Now Dangerous ⚠️ #cybersecurity #cybercrime #computersecurity

4,552 views • 106 likes • 0 comments • December 21, 2025

Run AWS Locally with Docker (LocalStack)

In this video, I’m going to show you LocalStack. It’s a tool that lets you run AWS services like S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and SQS right on your own machine using Docker. If you’re sick o...

26,670 views • 882 likes • 26 comments • December 20, 2025

Cloudflare's Report Just Confirmed Our Biggest Internet Fear... 🤯 #ai #internettrends #yearinreview

11,232 views • 474 likes • 7 comments • December 20, 2025

I Stress-Tested Meta’s SAM 3D on Real Photos And The Results Were Shocking!

We built a mobile app that turns a single photo into a full 3D model using Meta’s SAM 3D models. In this video, we break down how SAM 3D reconstructs objects from images, how Gaussian splatting fit...

7,582 views • 222 likes • 8 comments • December 20, 2025

Shadcn is now PERFECT for Vibe Coding (v2 changes)

shadcn/ui v2 is here, and it fixes the two biggest complaints: everything looking the same and Radix components. It has a new customizer, Base UI option, better theming, and that all makes it perfe...

14,170 views • 351 likes • 24 comments • December 19, 2025

Building a One-Man Empire with AI & the Future of Developer Education | Better Stack Podcast Ep. 9

Join David Flanagan, founder of Rawkode Academy and 20-year cloud native veteran, as he shares his journey of building a completely over-engineered education platform using GraphQL Federation, Clou...

1,996 views • 39 likes • 5 comments • December 18, 2025

Olmo3 Is What ‘Open Weights’ Was Supposed to Mean

Olmo 3 is the most open AI model out there right now. Fully open weights, training data, code, and everything in between. We break down Olmo3, the newest open model from the Allen Institute for AI...

3,308 views • 131 likes • 14 comments • December 18, 2025

Gemini 3 Flash Is Incredible… Until It Isn’t

Google’s Gemini 3 Flash is insanely fast, cheap, and maybe scores higher than Opus 4.5 on some benchmarks? But there’s one massive flaw you NEED to know about before using it. 🔗 Relevant Links Gem...

13,407 views • 346 likes • 35 comments • December 18, 2025

Your VPN Is Probably FAKE! (85% Exposed in Investigation)

Think your VPN is actually routing through Switzerland, Germany, or the Bahamas? Think again. In a shocking investigation that tested over 150,000 VPN servers across 20 major providers, researchers...

6,648 views • 223 likes • 39 comments • December 17, 2025

This Tiny Linux Setting Fixed My Next.js Builds (Swap)

Next.js builds can completely overwhelm small cloud servers and make it feel like upgrading is the only option. In this video we show you why builds fail on low-memory droplets and how a simple swa...

2,431 views • 112 likes • 7 comments • December 15, 2025

I STOPPED 'ls' After Discovering THIS Game-Changing Alternative!

The traditional 'ls' command is obsolete and eza is the ultimate modern replacement for file listing in your terminal - delivering much better performance with stunning color-coded output, Git inte...

8,478 views • 299 likes • 40 comments • December 14, 2025

I Tried TanStack AI... (it's good)

A quick walkthrough of TanStack AI, building a simple, type-safe chatbot with streaming, tools, and web search. Early days, but already a solid DX-focused alternative to Vercel AI SDK. 🔗 Relevant ...

9,964 views • 301 likes • 8 comments • December 14, 2025

This Is What React Apps Should Look Like...

Next.js is still a solid tool, but for a lot of developers it’s starting to feel kind of heavy and slow, especially once your app gets past the early MVP stage. It’s also pretty opinionated, which ...

7,012 views • 150 likes • 19 comments • December 14, 2025

I Gave Claude Code Permanent Memory - The Results Are Shocking

Ever lost hours of work because Claude forgot everything between sessions? In this video, I reveal WHY Claude's memory disappears and exactly HOW Beads by Steve Yegge, the revolutionary memory up...

26,169 views • 649 likes • 42 comments • December 13, 2025

What AV2 Codec Means for the Future of Video Streaming #streaming #codec #videocompression

4,230 views • 111 likes • 5 comments • December 13, 2025

This Open-Source Auth Stack Might Replace Auth0 (Ory Kratos)

In this video, We walk through building a complete authentication and identity stack using Ory Kratos. We set up login, registration, email verification, and multi-factor authentication using an op...

8,563 views • 299 likes • 30 comments • December 13, 2025

This Tool Turns Claude Into an Automation Engine (ActivePieces)

Automation tools like Zapier are easy to start with, but once workflows scale, the costs can grow. After running automations in production for a while, I decided to try out an open-source platform ...

7,464 views • 200 likes • 18 comments • December 12, 2025

It Happened Again... 2 New React CVE's

Two fresh React/Next.js vulnerabilities just dropped, one can fully DoS your server, the other can leak server action source code. Both are absurdly simple to exploit. Upgrade ASAP. 🔗 Relevant Lin...

22,939 views • 748 likes • 133 comments • December 12, 2025

The ONLY package manager you'll ever need for macOS

Nix is absolutely annihilating Homebrew as the go-to package manager for macOS. This video shows the true power of functional package management. Watch as I demonstrate how Nix single-handedly repl...

12,083 views • 302 likes • 36 comments • December 10, 2025

Cursor 2.0 Changes Everything - It Feels Illegal

The new Cursor 2.0 update is becoming one of the most talked-about releases in software development. With a completely redesigned multi-agent coding system, a Composer model that runs 4× faster, ...

9,638 views • 170 likes • 24 comments • December 09, 2025

React’s Worst Vulnerability Ever (RCE Exploit Explained)

A massive React + Next.js security flaw was just exposed and it’s as bad as it gets. An unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability hit React Server Components, letting attackers run ...

15,360 views • 549 likes • 49 comments • December 08, 2025

Cloudflare Just Destroyed v0, Lovable, and Replit in One Move

Cloudflare changed the AI coding game. In this video, we look at Cloudflare’s open-source VibeSDK AI coding platform that could realistically replace $500/month AI dev tools like v0, Lovable, and R...

15,466 views • 506 likes • 24 comments • December 07, 2025

China's Mind-Control AI Just Dropped on GitHub (100% Free)

China's Mind-Reading AI That Analyzes 1.4 Billion People… And It's 100% FREE on GitHub - discover the shocking truth about Bettafish, a revolutionary multi-agent system built by a single Chinese st...

17,993 views • 857 likes • 53 comments • December 07, 2025

xAI Dropped Grok-4.1… and It’s Actually SCARY Good

xAI just dropped Grok-4.1, and it might be the most powerful AI update we’ve seen yet! In this video, we break down how Grok-4.1 absolutely crushes OpenAI and Claude, blowing past them in major b...

7,263 views • 101 likes • 28 comments • December 06, 2025

Why Apple's New AI Model is TOO GOOD to Be True

Apple's Starflow represents a huge change in the AI landscape, as the tech giant unexpectedly open-sourced a revolutionary auto-regressive flow model that generates images and videos up to 15 times...

9,956 views • 346 likes • 23 comments • December 05, 2025

Django 6.0 Just Changed Everything

Django 6.0 just shipped, and it brings one of the biggest updates in years. The brand-new Django Tasks Framework, a built-in background worker system that could change everything. In this video, ...

8,458 views • 225 likes • 34 comments • December 04, 2025

The ONE Tool That Makes Claude Code Lightning Fast

In this video, I dive into React Grab, the tool that can make Claude Code 55% faster by giving AI tool the exact location of React elements instead of forcing it to search through countless files. ...

10,493 views • 280 likes • 19 comments • December 03, 2025

Anthropic Just Bought Bun?!?!

Anthropic just bought Bun. Yeah, the Claude guys now own a JavaScript runtime. In this video I break down what the acquisition actually means, what Bun’s team is saying, why Anthropic is betting bi...

14,616 views • 454 likes • 52 comments • December 03, 2025

How Crypto Is Secretly Taking Over Banking with @SarahBensonCodes | Better Stack Podcast Ep. 8

In this conversation, Sarah Benson discusses the current state of Web3 and crypto, emphasizing that the industry is not dead but has matured significantly. She highlights the evolving role of block...

982 views • 29 likes • 3 comments • December 02, 2025

OpenAI Swarm Hype Explodes: AgentKit Drives Multi-Agent AI Revolution

In this video, we take a close look at the rumored OpenAI Swarm Update 2025 that has developers and AI researchers buzzing. Interest in OpenAI Swarm has surged again, and many in the community beli...

2,980 views • 86 likes • 6 comments • December 02, 2025

Something’s Off About Anthropic’s “AI-Orchestrated Attack” Story (Report Analysis)

This video breaks down Anthropic’s recent claim that an AI agent helped orchestrate a major cyber-espionage campaign attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group. After reading the report closely,...

2,537 views • 89 likes • 6 comments • November 30, 2025