Friday Links: Single-letter names, Windows 11, and optimization
21 Nov 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. This week, another major Internet outage. This time at Cloudflare. It raises the question: do we really need Cloudflare? (2min).
#2. Maybe it’s time to migrate to GNU/Linux. Because Windows 11 is adding an AI agent (8min) with access to personal folders.
#3. Imagine all the trouble you’ll face online if you had a single-letter name (6min). Airlines won’t sell you a ticket, and another name won’t match your passport. Keep this in mind next time you’re working on validating web forms.
#4. Faster code isn’t always better. Working at a startup makes you optimize your code for different things (2min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about some hard truths about coding they don’t teach you (2min) and the skill that took my career further than anything else (2min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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