The idealization of farming by tech (News)

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Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding.

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1. What up, nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Q8lfUhan4E?utm_source=changelog-news

2. The idealization of farming by tech (00:00:43)

https://tjmorley.com/blogposts/cottagecoreprogrammers.html?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Know this before choosing Next.js (00:02:03)

https://eduardoboucas.com/posts/2025-03-25-you-should-know-this-before-choosing-nextjs/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. xan is the CSV magician (00:03:29)

https://github.com/medialab/xan?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Heroku (00:04:26)

https://blog.heroku.com/planting-new-platform-roots-cloud-native-fir?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=changelog-news

6. What we can learn from Milk Kanban (00:05:37)

https://brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html?utm_source=changelog-news

7. There is no vibe engineering (00:06:34)

https://serce.me/posts/2025-31-03-there-is-no-vibe-engineering?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:38)

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