Post by @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 23 min. ago

Vibe Coding & AI News to Use: November 5, 2026…

Walker Playground: tiny walkers ride your page's borders, buttons and text, and you can flick them.
https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/

Seattle-area ctrl+alt+create live: Builder Day co-working workshops and Builder Night networking, no experience needed.
https://luma.com/ctrlaltcreatelive
https://ctrlaltcreate.live/

#vibecoding #making

Chris Pirillo tossing a heavy backpack off a hiking trail and skipping ahead lighter. Hand-stitched patchwork quilt illustration.

Walker Playground

Builder Day: Free AI Vibe Coding Workshop & Co-Working in Seattle — All Skill Levels (ctrl+alt+create live)

Builder Day is a free monthly session in Seattle for anyone building software with AI. Newcomers get a workshop, with something new to learn and guided help, and experienced builders co-work on their own projects. Networking and show and tell close it out. In person in Seattle and online.

ctrl+alt+create live: AI / Vibe Coding Meetups for Everyone

For the greater Seattle area! "Builder Day" is a co-working workshop for all skill levels. "Builder Night" is unstructured networking & showcasing. No experience required to start building with AI!

#making #vibecoding

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Chris Pirillo

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 23 min. ago

Discord is ditching Electron for Rust, and its new desktop app uses less RAM.
https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app

Window Sweaters is a macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.
https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters

PhobosLab gets 44.1 kHz stereo onto the N64 at near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the CPU.
https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec

#vibecoding #news #making

GitHub

GitHub - saragordic/window-sweaters: A macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.

A macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders. - saragordic/window-sweaters

The Verge

Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.

PhobosLab

Chris Pirillo

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 23 min. ago

Servo's September update adds <progress>, rounded rectangles, new CSS functions and WebGL2 fixes.
https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/

Baidu opens ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B-A14B MoE pretraining base.
https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/

Launch HN: Rivet is an open-source orchestrator for everything an agent's workload needs.
https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet

#vibecoding #opensource #releases

GitHub

GitHub - rivet-dev/rivet: The orchestrator for agentic workloads. A fast, high-density and scalable orchestrator for every workload an agent needs.

The orchestrator for agentic workloads. A fast, high-density and scalable orchestrator for every workload an agent needs. - rivet-dev/rivet

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base · ERNIE

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280B-A14B hybrid-attention MoE pretrained on 33.5T tokens. An open, efficient pretraining base.

Servo

September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Plus new CSS functions and WEbGL2 improvements.

Chris Pirillo

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 23 min. ago

Show HN: Stroq finds leaked secrets in your coding agent sessions and guards the next one, locally.
https://github.com/AGGIB/Stroq

OpenSSH 10.6p2 fixes a password authentication bypass on musl Linux without PAM: update now.
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html

Chris Wellons on why we can do better than line-buffered output.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/11/05/

#vibecoding #tools #news

We can do better than line-buffered output

GitHub

GitHub - AGGIB/Stroq: Find known secrets in your AI coding agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), then guard the next one with local hooks that trace risky commands to the content that dictated them. Open source, no telemetry.

Find known secrets in your AI coding agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), then guard the next one with local hooks that trace risky commands to the content that dictated them. Open source, ...

OpenSSH: Release Notes

OpenSSH release notes

Chris Pirillo

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 22 min. ago

A gym forced its social app on members, so one pulled the QR check-in out of it.
https://shayon.work/blog/reverse-engineering-gym-pass

Jay Tholen remembers being a kid making games and posting them online in the early 2000s.
https://jaytholen.net/teengamedev/

#vibecoding #making

Being a kid making games in the early 2000s - Jay Tholen

An autobiographical essay by Jay Tholen about being a youngster making games and posting them online!

My gym forced a social media down my throat. I reverse-engineered its app.

Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.

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