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THE Travis Media Newsletter

THE Travis Media Newsletter

AI, Tech, and Conquering Life

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🧱 AI Is Becoming Infrastructure (CES 2026)

Jan 6, 2026

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6 min read

🧱 AI Is Becoming Infrastructure (CES 2026)

In this week's newsletter, we’re breaking down why CES 2026 mattered for developers, NVIDIA’s Rubin platform and the shift toward AI as infrastructure, and how AI-first editors and agentic tools are becoming the new default. We also look at what this means for engineering jobs and the skills that matter most, for you, in 2026, as well as my video of the week on migrating to a clean Linux + Windows dual-boot setup.

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🚨 When US-EAST-1 sneezes...

Oct 21, 2025

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6 min read

🚨 When US-EAST-1 sneezes...

Two things dominated dev-world this week: a massive AWS outage that rippled across the internet, and a fresh Node.js major with real quality-of-life wins. We also saw Apple’s M5 silicon push AI-on-device forward, Anthropic ship a cheaper model tier, and Git celebrate 20 years with new talks to binge.

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🐍 Python’s biggest leap in years

Oct 14, 2025

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5 min read

🐍 Python’s biggest leap in years

Two big shifts this week: Python 3.14 lands with the most meaningful ergonomics + concurrency update in years, and Microsoft starts moving GitHub infra to Azure—huge implications for Copilot at scale. I’ve also got my new video on the 10 AI concepts every dev should know.

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Travis Media
🤖 The Agent Era Begins

Oct 7, 2025

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4 min read

🤖 The Agent Era Begins

This week, I’m covering OpenAI’s new AgentKit for building no-code AI agents, GitHub’s take on how the developer role is evolving, JetBrains and Zed’s open protocol for AI coding agents, and Microsoft’s new Agent Framework for .NET and Python. Plus, a few standout reads on productivity, chiplets, and the changing patterns of AI-first work.

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Travis Media
💰️ How to negotiate your salary package

Jun 24, 2025

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5 min read

💰️ How to negotiate your salary package

This week, I’m covering why JPEGs still dominate the web, how to negotiate your salary without guilt, Claude Code’s new remote server support, a killer JavaScript flashcard tool, and what to expect from GPT-5 this summer.

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Travis Media
📉 Where are the Entry-level jobs going?

Jun 10, 2025

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5 min read

📉 Where are the Entry-level jobs going?

Entry-level jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate, developers are pushing back against flawed interview processes, and AI coding tools are creating new challenges for collaboration.

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Travis Media
🤨 My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

Jun 3, 2025

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5 min read

🤨 My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

A sharp critique of AI skepticism in dev circles, a look back at Java’s surprising 30-year journey, and a hands-on guide to meta prompting.

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Travis Media
📉 Stack Overflow is Dying

May 27, 2025

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5 min read

📉 Stack Overflow is Dying

Stack Overflow signs a major AI licensing deal with Google, Mistral drops an open-source LLM built for real-world dev work, and we look at how LLMs are reshaping coding workflows, and possibly killing off SO in the process. Plus, the quirky origin story behind Rust.

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Travis Media
🤖 AI is destroying and saving programming at the same time

May 20, 2025

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5 min read

🤖 AI is destroying and saving programming at the same time

A new Python type checker from Meta, JavaScript’s latest proposal for better resource cleanup, insights from Microsoft’s latest layoffs, and a collection of posts that reshaped how one developer thinks about programming languages. Plus, a look at how AI is both a blessing and a curse for coding.

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