Top picks — 2026 May (opens in new tab)

Drama about the pricing of AI models, countless npm vulnerabilities and Google I/O that at this point should be rebranded to Google AI. This is a short summary of the past month in software. Most of the news from these categories I entirely ignore, so I prepared for you a list of super non-trendy resources from the past month, as I do every last day of each month for the past 11 years. A few bits presented by friends from Google are the only exceptions. In the past month, I worked super hard ...