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Issue 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot internals and HTML in Canvas

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Hello fellow developer, this week it is all about making your Agents more effective and use fewer tokens. We also take a look at how Googlebot works, what you should know about JavaScript in 2026 and check out a new proposal to use HTML inside of Canvas, making it performant and accessible. And we have a GitHub action that automatically detects and deletes AI slop pull requests, in case you are also drowning in those…

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Agents are all the rage, but the problem is that they always start from scratch. Can we do better and get AI agents to remember and learn? We sat down with William Lyon of Neo4j to explore a new graph-based approach that dramatically cuts token usage and improves reasoning. Get ready to build agents that can remember it for you wholesale.

What's happening in AI

  • Highlights from Simon Willison's agentic engineering podcast conversation
  • A Claude Code skill/plugin and Codex plugin that makes agent talk like caveman
  • claude-token-efficient is a simple way to save tokens
  • A Guide to Context Engineering for LLMs
  • Vibe Coding Got Us Here. Can Spec-Driven Development Save Us?

Security and Privacy

  • Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise
  • Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
  • Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
  • Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
  • Reverse engineering Apple’s silent security fixes

Software Development

  • HTML in canvas
  • Your File System Is Already a Graph Database
  • What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)
  • Monitor and improve your web app’s load performance
  • Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Apify released their agent-skills for you to use
  • Professional screen recordings with zoom effects and annotations
  • Professional video editing, right in your browser
  • A GitHub Action that detects and automatically closes low-quality and AI slop PRs.
  • Know what's running on your machine.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • What's my JND?
  • Airport disruptions
  • Using AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness.

Career and Culture:

  • Your ticket is a prompt
  • “I started to lose my ability to code”: the real cost of AI programming tools
  • Burnout Is Real for Open Source Maintainers
  • What I Learned From Nearly 1,000 Interviews at Amazon
  • Social media has become a freak show
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  • Software Architekt at Finanz Informatik
  • Regulatory Affairs Manager Software at ZEISS Group
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Senior Specialist at Riverty
  • Senior Technologiemanager AI Platforms at BWI
  • Oracle Datenbankadministrator at Dirk Rossman

  • HR4YOU

  • Sportradar Media

  • Neochic

  • qualitype

  • Sunhat

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