The best coders should exit the feed (News)

最优秀的程序员应退出信息流(新闻)。

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2025-10-07

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Abner Coimbre makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms, Noah Brier creates a Claude Code and Obsidian starter kit, Bharath Natarajan documents the Vercel vs Cloudflare fight, Toolbrew is a well-designed website brimming with common utilities, and Yusuf Aytas analyzes why over-engineering happens.
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  • What up nerds?

  • I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, October 6th, 2025.

  • Did you hear what happened to South Korea's government recently?

  • A fire broke out at their National Information Resources Service headquarters,

  • erasing work files saved by about 750,000 civil servants over the past seven years.

  • The worst part?

  • No backups.

  • Well, that's not technically correct.

  • They did have backups, but the backups were also destroyed in the same fire.

  • This is why the 3-2-1 rule exists.

  • Your backup strategy should have three copies, two different media types, and one off-site.

  • Okay, let's get into this week's news.

  • The best coders should exit the feed.

  • Abner Quamber makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms like X,

  • Instagram, and Reddit.

  • Quote, not as a moral crusade,

  • but because the platforms are crumbling under heavy regulation and cultural backlash.

  • If you're investing your peak years shaping public narratives there,

  • you risk reputation and creativity."

  • Abner has noticed four big forces pushing the shift away.