Buried in this nicely-detailed RCA is a pretty damning fact:

Cloudflare left .unwrap() in mission-critical Rust code.

For non-Rustaceans, .unwrap() handles a type called Result that can either be Ok with a value, or an Err with an Error. The whole point is to gracefully handle errors and not let panics make it to production code. But unwrap() assumes there's a value to extract without safeguards.

I use .unwrap() sometimes! Usually when there's a logical guarantee that the result can never be an error. But I make sure to purge it from critical processes for exactly this reason.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.

It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115548040527129225

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.

The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. Experts say while the proposed ban may have more to do with TP-Link’s ties to China than any specific technical threats, much of the rest of the industry serving this market also sources hardware from China and ships products that are insecure fresh out of the box.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/drilling-down-on-uncle-sams-proposed-tp-link-ban/

Want to build awesome GUI components in Rust lang? Try "GPUI Component" for building fantastic cross platform desktop application by using GPUI.

https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component?tab=readme-ov-file

Okay, one more this morning: Tailscale Peer Relays.

Make any node on your tailnet a high-throughput, traffic-relaying alternative to Tailscale's DERP servers, while improving speed and flexbility in cloud infrastructure or strict firewalls. Read more: https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta

Our webinar (1pm EDT, 10/30) covers this and all our other Fall Update releases: https://tailscale.com/events-webinars/tailscale-fall-update

As part of Tailscale's internal ✨ Hack Week ✨ Simon aka /sfllaw, Software Developer at Tailscale, will be doing a live Reddit AMA diving into projects, sharing insights and answering your questions.

🗓️ When: Tuesday, August 5
⏰ Time: Starting at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern

Join the AMA here: https://tinyurl.com/mry7kcsz