This week’s blog roundup includes a fascinating dive into improving indoor air quality with Arduino, showcasing how often we overlook the pollution indoors. Meanwhile, for the newsletter enthusiasts, there’s an essential list of 41 tools to enhance your project. Design and development teams will find the anatomy of a component sprint insightful, bridging crucial gaps. Spotify’s introduction of supercharged developer portals offers a glimpse into the future of internal development efficiency. There’s a critical look at Microsoft’s security practices and an intriguing opinion piece debating whether history is repeating itself in journalism and media. Plus, insights into the discontinuation of print audits and a hopeful perspective on the survival of magazines through the eyes of indie publishers.

• Improve indoor air quality with Arduino | Arduino Blog: When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities and power plants churning clouds of poison into the atmosphere. And while all this is still important, and has massive consequences for our health, it’s all too easy to overlook the air pollution that takes place within our […]
• 41 Tools That Might Make Your Newsletter Better: Looking for tools to help you build, grow, analyze, and monetize a successful newsletter? Start with these.
• The anatomy of a component sprint: The Washington Post’s inclusive process for creating new design system components bridges the gap between design and development.
• Supercharged Developer Portals: Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building internal developer portals (IDPs). Whether your company needs a highly customized IDP built from scratch or an out-of-the-box solution that’s ready to go ASAP, we want to make it easy for anyone to maximize the value they get from their Backstage developer portal.
• At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down: Critics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris have left the enterprise giant on its back foot.
• Is history repeating itself? I have concerns. – Jeff Jarvis: I will always worry about government intercession in speech — and especially news. I am deeply disturbed seeing journalists hire lobbyists to seek favors from those they are sworn to cover independently. Worse, I am disgusted seeing news organizations use editorial space to lobby for protectionist legislation, without acknowledging the conflict of interest in coverage. I don’t want to see a single penny go to the hedge funds that are the ruin of American newspapers — indeed, if you want to tax anyone for damaging news, it should be them.
• Print audits discontinued: A decrease in the need for traditional media audits.
• Magazines aren’t dying—just ask these indie publishers: Independent publishers like ‘Mountain Gazette’ and ‘The Surfer’s Journal’ are finding success with high-quality print, a tight-knit community, and less advertising.