[May 2026] Tech News Monthly Newsletter 💻🚀

Welcome to the 5th issue of Tech News Monthly! If you missed the previous months, you can check out the previous issues of Tech News Monthly here.

The quick version: I curate and share the most important articles, news, resources, podcasts, and videos from the world of tech.

Instead of consuming a bunch of news and articles every day, all you have to do is read this short newsletter once a month to stay up to date with the tech industry!

Alright, let's not waste any valuable time and jump right into this month's updates.

Here's what happened in May 2026 in our industry... 100% human written every month:

Learning Software Architecture 🥸

Some good points and a nice short article to start off this newsletter. You will enjoy it. Here are a few more tips (shout out to CSMastermind):

• Good design is a single idea pervaded throughout.

• More generally, your goal should be to minimize surprise.

• If your system allows it, people will do it.

• Everyone will not just. If your solution starts with "if everyone will just..." then you don't have a solution.

• Isolate the parts of your system that transform data from the ones that use it. Data models outlive code.

• Coupling is the root of most evil.

• Versioning is inevitable.

• Make state explicit.

• Every piece of information should have a single source of truth.

• You should spend more time thinking about naming things correctly.

• If testing is difficult, the design is wrong.

• You will regret every undocumented decision.

• Communication is a tax that you should justify before paying it.

Remember that the job of an engineer at any level is to use rules of thumb to solve problems for which there is incomplete information.

P.T. Barnum 🎪

Besides being the inspiration behind one of the best movies ever (The Greatest Showman), PT Barnum had a very inspiring life.

Before you scoff at the title of this, I highly recommend you keep some of these principles in mind if you're looking to start your journey into tech: The Art of Money Getting.

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit 🪕

Supply chain attacks on NPM have become very common. The new strategy now is to not update software right away. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit. If you want to get more insight about this issue, you can read about it here.

While you are at it, stop installing random VS code extensions as well: GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension.

Using AI to Slow Down 🚥

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it!

But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly. This is a great read.

News Around the World 🗺

• All is well in the world. Stop reading the news.

Big Tech News aka AI News 🏢

• Googlebook is here. Not sure why or who this is for. I liked this one comment:

  This is an overgrown phone with all the trash that comes with a phone, and the very finite use cases that come with a phone, only now it has a keyboard. It's solving none of the problems with Android as an operating system and doesn't seem to even be interested in doing that anyway. The marketing is demoing use cases that don't even exist.

• Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, for fast response times for coding and agent use.

• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry. This is actually very impressive and an indication that AI is definitely useful despite what some people may tell you.

• Claude Opus 4.8 is here and it's impressive.

• A great article to see why Anthropic and OpenAI may become the most profitable businesses in the world... one day. They may have found product market fit... hint: it was never about the regular consumer.

• In usual Meta news where they do things that make no sense: Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

• Nvidia is entering the Windows laptop market with a new chip, taking on Intel and AMD.

Completely useless to your career but still great 🙃

I've watched this video every couple of months for the last 10+ years. You might like it.

Best Resource of the Month ✅

Can't keep up with the constant AI news and innovation? Don't worry, you can just read this to learn what has happened in the last 6 months in the industry: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes.

Two main themes of the past six months:

1. The coding agents got really good

2. The laptop-available models, while a lot weaker than the frontier, have started wildly outperforming expectations

Also, we might need something better than a Pelican test soon...

Trick of the Month 🌗

This one is a goodie this month: A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics.

Comes with a spinning rat cursor 🐁!

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