Tech news, August 28, 2026
Friday: 5 pieces the paper read from primary sources, by section, newest first. Each links to its source; the line under it is the source's own opening.
News
3 pieces.
- Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Sehani Chathurangi
Welcome back to the Ambassador Spotlight series!
- AI didn't write our SDK. It changed how we built it.
AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster.
- Electing new Project Directors 2026
Today we are launching the process to elect two Project Directors to the Rust Foundation Board of Directors.
Technical Guides
2 pieces.
- Pasting images into TextInput should not be this hard
How a small paste interaction in a chat app became expo-paste-input, a native Expo module that adds image, GIF, and sticker paste to React Native TextInput.
- Quick, reliable calculations with A2UI's Client-Side Functions
Learn how client-side functions allow an agent to delegate local operations directly to Dart code running on a user's device.