The best coders should exit the feed (News)

What up, nerds? She's a boy. I'm Jared, and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, 10/06/2025. Did you hear what happened to South Korea's government recently? Oh, a fire broke out at their National Information Resources Service headquarters, erasing work files saved by about 750,000 civil servants over the past seven years. The worst part, no backups. What? What? What? Well, that's not technically correct. They did have backups, but the backups were also destroyed in the same fire. This is why the three two one rule exists. Your backup strategy should have three copies, two different media types, and one off-site. Okay. Let's get into this week's news. The best coders should exit the feed. Abner Quamber makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for profit social platforms like x, Instagram, and Reddit. Quote, not as a moral crusade, but because the platforms are crumbling under heavy regulation and cultural backlash. If you're investing your peak years shaping public narratives there, you risk reputation and creativity, end quote. Abner has noticed four big forces pushing the shift away. One, the anxious generation book convincing parents to restrict phones. Two, bipartisan school smartphone bans. Three, growing evidence and visibility of bot farms. And four, a cultural link between being terminally online and political violence. My own social network of family, friends, and church, and my personal sentiment toward technology affirms what Abner is saying. Phone fasts and a return to analog are common discussions I'm having with people. Abner says, quote, because of everything I've already outlined, this way of life is barreling towards collapse. You can also find smaller signs, like the surge in dumb phone sales, that mainstream outlets are finally noticing. Everywhere around us, society is wondering, why do we keep a bottomless barrel of sugar in our pockets? End quote. His call for anyone in tech helping build these platforms is to stop that and start building technology for touching grass. And he says that movement has already begun. A clod code plus obsidian starter kit. Clod code and obsidian? Cue Julie Andrews because these are definitely two of my favorite things right now. The linked repo is a preconfigured obsidian vault structure that's designed to work seamlessly with Cloud Code as an AI powered second brain. This lets you, one, use AI as a thinking partner, not just a writing assistant. Two, organize knowledge using the para method. That's projects, areas, resources, and archives. Three, maintain version control with Git. And four, access your vault from anywhere, including mobile. The starter kit's creator, Noah Brier, wrote all about why he loves this setup in the magic of cloud code. Link in the newsletter. Vercel versus CloudFlare. Vercel and CloudFlare are seriously duking it out for developer mind share these days, and their founders aren't pulling any punches. In the linked post, Bharath Natarajan documents the fight. Quote, Cloudflare's camp frames of Vercel as a front end illusionist, …