Vol. 1 · No. 1Tuesday, 13 October 2026Price: 0 tokens

All the feed that fits · ten days of your dev, games and work desks

✓ Every story sourced
245items · 214 dev, 26 games, 5 work43sources with news6items you already read12ARC Raiders posts
30,000+merges a day in September, up from about 2,500 in May
200×less CPU and memory than the old git mirrors
25 millionCI checkouts a day
99%+cache hit rate on every cache tier
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13 OctAnthropic

Anthropic outgrew git and built Scion in five months

Git could not keep up with the merge rate. A team of seven built a new version control system, plus a code review tool named Antique.

Scion does history, merges and rebases on the server, and no full copy of the repository exists anywhere. CI checkouts now take seconds instead of minutes.

Continued at Anthropic Engineering →

06 OctGitHub

Stacked pull requests go GA

Split one big change into small pull requests, review each one alone, then merge them together.

Github Blog Changelog

“If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift.”
Geoffrey Huntley, who writes a pre-commit hook instead
Also shipped · 68
Below the fold
10 OctCloudflare

Deno is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare wants self-hosted workerd to be first class. The Deno runtime gets one more year of fixes, then development ends.

Simon Willison

Police blotter

Agents in training, loose on the web.

On your shelf

Saved for later. Later is now.

Pipeline weather

Six storms, all cleared. Pack an umbrella for Actions.

08 OctClaude Code

Claude Code hooks can now fail closed

With onFailure: "block", a hook that cannot start, times out or exits with an unexpected code blocks the action instead of letting it through.

Claude Code Releases

08 OctCodex

Codex makes its own worktrees

Codex CLI 0.162 adds tools that create and list managed Git worktrees in trusted local projects.

Codex CLI Releases

Overheard

Minicrypt: a world where public-key encryption is impossible.

Classifieds

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From the Anthropic wire

Headlines only. The feed sends no summaries.

Image: VS Code Feed
07 OctVS Code

VS Code 1.141 cleans up after your agents

Worktree storage cleanup, terminal sandboxing on every platform, and pick-up of external Copilot and Codex sessions.

VS Code Feed

Corrections

The vendors regret the errors.

Most talkative newsrooms

Release feeds and status pages do not count.

  1. Simon Willison30
  2. Github Blog Changelog23
  3. OpenAI News15
  4. Gemini and Gemma on Google Developers Blog10
  5. GitHub Blog7
  6. Anthropic News4
13 OctTHE FINALS

Respec Order 3.0: the retrospective

Design director Matt Lowe on the test that gave Lights 25 more health and Heavies 25 less in Cashout.

THE FINALS Patch Notes

Save the date

Below the fold
Image: Minecraft News
06 OctMinecraft

Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 3 goes ice caving

The winter drop brings Ice Caves, icicles, ice crystals and the Frostbite, a frozen zombie that can freeze you.

Minecraft News

09 OctHotfix

ARC Raiders Hotfix 2.0.2

Fixes after Frozen Trail, such as weapon meshes that turned partly invisible with attachments.

ARC Raiders News

Classifieds

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04 OctStudio

Bringing Celeste to life

How the ARC Raiders team adapts to better honor actor performances.

ARC Raiders Official News

413 daysuntil the earliest removal date
3 APIsmove to the Workflows namespace
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06 OctQlik

Automation APIs are deprecated

Automation connections, Automation connectors and Automations move to the Workflows namespace. Removal comes on or after 30 November 2027.

Workflows changes too: the Workflows Automations API deprecated schedules[].interval. Use schedules[].recurrence to configure schedules.

Continued at qlik.dev Changelog → · schedules[].interval property deprecated in Workflows Automations API