6. Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs (nationaltoday.com)

Oracle, the software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, has filed thousands of petitions for H-1B visas in the past two fiscal years, even as it lays off thousands of American workers as part of a broader organizational shift. Federal data shows Oracle filed for 2,690 H-1B visas in fiscal year 2025 and 436 so far in fiscal year 2026, totaling over 3,100 visa requests.

8. Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection (www.joanwestenberg.com)

This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s

21. Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly (tinygo.org)

TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places Get Started See the code Go on embedded systems and WebAssembly
TinyGo brings the Go programming language to embedded systems and to the modern web by creating a new compiler based on LLVM.
You can compile and run TinyGo programs on over 100 different microcontroller boards from maker boards such as the BBC micro:bit and the Arduino Uno, to industrial processors from Nordic Semiconductor and ST Microelectronics.

22. Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi (www.jeffgeerling.com)

Last year my aunt let me add her original Tangerine iBook G3 clamshell to my collection of old Macs1.
It came with an AirPort card—a $99 add-on Apple made that ushered in the Wi-Fi era. The iBook G3 was the first consumer laptop with built-in Wi-Fi antennas, and by far the cheapest way to get a computer onto an 802.11 wireless network.

25. What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames (mchav.github.io)

Every dataframe library ships with hundreds of operations. pandas alone has over 200 methods on a DataFrame. Is pivot different from melt? Is apply different from map? What about transform, agg, applymap, pipe? Some of these seem like the same operation wearing different hats. Others seem genuinely distinct. Without a framework for telling them apart, you end up memorizing APIs instead of understanding structure.

30. Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was (www.sambent.com)

Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy.

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