The overlooked power of URLs (News)

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens.

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1. What up, Sync Conf nerds? (00:00:00)

https://syncconf.dev

2. The overlooked power of URLs (00:00:43)

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html?utm_source=changelog-news

3. How I use every Claude Code feature (00:02:01)

https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature?utm_source=changelog-news

4. AI broke interviews (00:02:58)

https://yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-interviews/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:03:42)

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/postgres-for-agents?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Intern saves TikTok $300K/year because Rust (00:04:32)

https://wxiaoyun.com/blog/rust-rewrite-case-study/?utm_source=changelog-news

7. JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens (00:05:40)

https://github.com/toon-format/toon?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:06:14)

https://changelog.news