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Sat down and wrote the lessons I’m currently trying to live by at 27.

🔗 27 Life Lessons at 27
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27 Life Lessons at 27 | Agustinus Nathaniel
A blog post
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February 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Published January 2026 Roundup 🚀

- Ralph Wiggum Technique
- Agent Skills exploding everywhere
- Astro 6 Beta + team joins Cloudflare
- openclaw goes viral
- Kimi K2.5 multimodal beast
+ personal finds

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January 2026 Roundup
Hey folks, happy new year and welcome to the first roundup of 2026!
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February 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
[Announcement] I decided to streamline domains I owned:
- spoker.dev -> spoker.sznm.dev
- sznm.link -> link.sznm.dev

Conclusion:
- spoker.dev will still work until mid-2026
- sznm.link is already removed
spoker
Real-time multiplayer scrum poker with teams
spoker.dev
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Published Nov–Dec 2025 Roundup (catch-up after a rest break) 🚀

- Canva makes Affinityfree
- Gemini 3 multimodal beast
- bun joins AnthropicAI
- vite_js 8 Beta (Rolldown speed)
- Workspace Studio agents

Check it out:
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Roundup: November & December 2025 (The Ones I Missed)
Hey everyone,
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February 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Published October 2025 Roundup 🚀

- React.js 19.2 and new Foundation home,
- Open AI Sora 2, AgentKit, Atlas
- Next.js 16 release,
- Vercel Bun runtime support
- Cursor 2.0
and more gems

Check it out:
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October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
EV but Manual?! 🚀
youtu.be/DE2oDKguy3Q
This Is The Most Fun EV I've ever Driven: Frankenstein AE86 That Stays True to Its Driving Roots
YouTube video by Larry Chen
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October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vite: Beyond a Build Tool by @evanyou.me
youtu.be/x7Jsmt_o9ek

Great introduction on Vite Plus
Evan You | Vite Beyond a Build Tool | ViteConf 2025
YouTube video by ViteConf
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October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Published September 2025 Roundup 🚀

- Gluestack UI v3
- Atlassian acquires The Browser Company
- Expo SDK 54 + Router v6: Hybrid apps just got snappier
- Alibaba's Qwen3-Next
- xAI's Grok 4 Fast: Frontier smarts on a budget
- and many more ✨

Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Been a long time not publishing blog to my site 😅

New blog post: A Practical Guide to Data Standards for Seamless Collaboration and Integrity ⚡️

Here are the simple standards that keep things predictable 👇
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A Practical Guide to Data Standards for Seamless Collaboration and Integrity | Agustinus Nathaniel
A blog post
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September 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
[UX Critic] WhatsApp privacy controls for profile pictures are outdated and clunky. Defaulting to a “block list” (selecting who can’t see your picture) is risky—if you add a new contact and forget to update the list, they’ll see it by default. This approach feels backward.
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
👀👀🤔
Should I upgrade now?
September 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Published the July 2025 Roundup 🚀

- Dorsey's Bitchat: Offline P2P chat on BLE
- NuxtLabs teams up with Vercel
- Grok 4 from xAI crushes reasoning benchmarks
- Kimi K2: Open-source 1T param MoE monster
- Wan 2.2: Video AI gets cinematic and accessible

Full deets here—what's your take?
Roundup July 2025
Roundups
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August 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Reposted by Agustinus Nathaniel
Figma is going public today (31 July). Here's their tech stack, at a high-level, from the deepdive with CTO Kris Rasmussen in The Pragmatic Engineer back in 2023:

The full deepdive on how Figma operates from an engineering point of view: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-fig...
July 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Zippy - image compression app

Browser based image compression
- Secure - no image are being uploaded to a remote object storage / server
- Fast - all process happens on client device
June 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
@tanstack.com Router is awesome. Just tried it out with small app experiment.

- First class search params handling (no need nuqs etc)
- end to end type safety (routes, loaders, search params, etc)
- Data fetching: has built in loader and first class support with react-query (obviously)
June 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Published May 2025 Tech Roundup 🚀

- Google I/O 2025
- Microsoft Build 2025
- Expo SDK 53
- GSAP is now 100% free
- Mantine v8
- Rslib
- Zod v4
- Various other reads

Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/agustinu...
Roundup May 2025
Roundups
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May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Roundup February 2025
React Community Updates, AI Releases
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February 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Roundup January 2025
Happy New Year 2025!
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February 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Roundup December 2024

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Some updates on Roundup:
- Will be monthly regular and published at Substack as newsletter agustinusnathaniel.substack.com
- Added Personal Discoveries
Roundup December 2024
News and Discoveries around December 2024
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January 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
December 31, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Published site revamp 🚀🎉

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December 22, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by Agustinus Nathaniel
Professionals can deal with problems too complex for hobbyists like optimizing for performance, scale, conversion, redoing the whole thing better etc

They can understand and take complexity and use tools built for professionals. Like they do now, already:

blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ide-that-sof...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?
Software engineers shared their favorite IDEs with GenAI features on social media. The most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the e...
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December 21, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Decided to drop sozonome username and just consolidate it into agustinusnathaniel / agstnsnathaniel 🙏

- 🦋: agustinusnathaniel.com
- the apex domain https://sznm.dev will now redirect to https://agustinusnathaniel.com
- github username updated

let me know if you found any broken links 🙏
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November 24, 2024 at 5:07 AM