The science behind developer flow states (News)

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective.

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1. What up, AWS nerds? (00:00:00)

https://downdetector.com/?utm_source=changelog-news

2. The science behind developer flow states (00:00:40)

https://leadership.garden/developer-flow/?utm_source=changelog-news

3. The day my smart vacuum turned against me (00:01:35)

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Ruby core team takes on RubyGems, Bundler (00:02:07)

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Zed (00:02:57)

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP (00:03:47)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Knowledge creates technical debt (00:04:48)

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/knowledge-creates-technical-debt/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:05:46)

https://changelog.news/?utm_source=changelog-news