The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 19 / 2026
Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker!
Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time.
100% signal, 0% slop.
I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
🌀 How I Run the Tolaria Project
15 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I published all the workflows I have put in place to run Tolaria alongside Refactoring. It’s been quite a journey! Tolaria rose among the 10 fastest growing repos across the whole Github, and I had to manage a big inflow of comments, bug reports, and feature requests. In the article I explain how I do it!
🥇 Sometimes Your Job Is to Get in the Way
5 min • by Rands
Good leaders know when to stay out of the way — but great leaders also know when to step in and draw a hard line. Fantastic story by Rands, about how a major Slack outage led to a complete transformation of their development process, driven by strong leadership.
🥈 Why Can’t They Just…
5 min • by Lara Hogan
“Why can’t they just…” is a phrase we all use when frustrated with other teams or roles. Instead of dismissing it, Lara explains how to use it as a signal to dig into the complexities behind decisions you don’t understand, and turn frustration into collaborative problem-solving. Loved it.
🥉 Contributor Poker and AI
6 min • by Loris Cro
Open source maintainers don’t bet on PRs, they bet on contributors. This is a great take by Zig and the best articulated thesis I have heard about banning AI-generated contributions. Worth a read.
And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!
You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬
See you next week!
Sincerely 👋
Luca