tl;dr — Week 50, 2025

Here's what I've liked reading this week, dive in!

🎸 Using Raycast AI to auto create song wishlists

I picked up writing an article again! Though it's a rather short read, it really helped solve an annoying problem for me as a music enthusiast with the help of Raycast & iOS.

Saving discovered music using AI

As a music enthusiast, I’m always discovering tracks across platforms. But managing a unified ‘wantlist’ for my Plex library, future purchases, or DJ sets has always been a challenge. Spotify, code exporters, screenshots in camera roll. There had to be a better way…

@thibmaek's thoughtsThibault Maekelbergh

💡 Ikea rolled out their new Matter smart home lights & sensors.

I personally can't wait to get my hands on them in Belgium soon. https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsroom/retail/the-new-smart-home-from-ikea-matter-compatible-251106/

🟠 Mistral releases new frontier models & alternative to Claude code

They released a new Mistral 3 model and also made the edge model Ministral 3 publicly available. I've installed it via Ollama and will try chatting with it in Open WebUI to see the performance for smaller tasks & chats.

Vibe has been fun to experiment with, being able to use their cloud hosted version of Devstral 2 for free or link it up to a local model.

Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI. | Mistral AI

State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.

Mistral AIMistral AI

Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI

A family of frontier open-source multimodal models

Mistral AIMistral AI

🇨🇳 Things keep in moving in China's AI space

DeepSeek released new versions of their open weight model. ByteDance tries to roll out wired-to-your-life AI in China.

ByteDance and DeepSeek Are Placing Very Different AI Bets

The diverging path of China’s two leading AI players shows where the country’s artificial intelligence industry is headed.

WIREDZeyi Yang

🧭 Reads on engineering culture & principles

I rediscovered some bookmarked reads and new reads pointed out by coworkers on building an engineering culture, what principles bring clarity & direction to a team and how you innovate & evolve sustainably

Choose Boring Technology

Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports

bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty

“If it hurts - do it more often”. Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

martinfowler.comMartin Fowler

Development Philosophy

This document sets guidelines for how we approach software development at Sentry.

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🤝 Balancing trust & competence in the workplace

My good friend first, coworker second, Bart Schroyen sent me this article of how trust & competence tie into the workplace, building high performing teams.

The Slipstream Model of Competence

Why a High-Trust Environment Is More Important Than Working With Smart People

Maarten’s NewsletterMaarten Dalmijn