We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.3 with fixes for two security vulnerabilities in the YAML parsers. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible if your application processes YAML files from unknown origins. See the release notes of 1.20.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.20. Pr...

I participated in my first pixel art jam! It was a Game Boy themed one. It was a lot of fun to work with such a limited palette. The theme was Three, and I went with three player ships from SpaceDeck X. I was happy to see how well my sprites translate into the Game Boy's original colors. Once I fini...

How to set up and use the Supabase C# client in .NET, for ASP.NET Core, Console Apps, Desktop, Unity and Mobile.

The Supabase .NET libraries move to a single repo, with a unified version number.

.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 appeared first on .NET Blog.

Nine HR and payroll platforms for SMBs, scored on payroll depth, pricing, HR features, onboarding, support, and integrations - with the trade-offs for each spelled out. Continue reading Best HR and Payroll Software for SMBs on SitePoint.

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play, Google PlayToday, we shared how we’re taking our “More than a store” vision into its next chapter. From You tab—now a personalized home base for your favorite apps and content—to Play Games Sidekick connecting over 2 billion players, Google...

Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.

A deep dive into how D1 architected its control plane to scale and manage millions of databases, while keeping data plane query operations at the edge. We share guiding principles on how to build on the Developer Platform effectively.

Last year, we introduced GEM, the industry’s largest recommendation system (RecSys) foundation model. GEM established Meta’s first LLM-inspired paradigm for ads recommendation, driving major performance gains. Building on this foundation, our next goal is to further scale both compute and intelligen...

Posted by Jason Buchel, Creative Technologist, Platform & Devices As agentic development accelerates, Android engineering is reaching an exciting new frontier: moving from assistive code completion to agents executing end-to-end under your direction. You have total choice and flexibility in the mode...

Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as […]

Our strategies to optimize our data pipeline throughput without compromising data quality.

A scenario-based guide for React developers comparing TanStack Query and SWR in Next.js App Router, with equivalent Client Component patterns for filtered queries, cache invalidation, and optimistic updates. Continue reading TanStack Query vs SWR: How to Choose in Next.js App Router on SitePoint.

Build a server-side visitor counter in Express and PostgreSQL using daily-salted SHA-256 hashes, and examine failure modes including CGNAT collisions, midnight-UTC splits, and 64-bit hash collision risks. Continue reading Count Unique Visitors Without Cookies Using Daily Salted Hashes in Express on ...

Build an Express JWKS endpoint using Node.js's native crypto module, and enrich exported JWK objects with the alg, use, and kid metadata required by token verifiers. Continue reading Node.js JWKS Endpoint with Crypto: Adding Missing Metadata on SitePoint.

pg_vectorsearch is a new open-source Postgres extension. Its PRISM index serves 100M vectors in 6 ms on 4x less RAM than HNSW, with builds in under 2 hours.

A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style. How the writer shows up in the prose, its four principles, the role of story, h...

If you’re starting fresh with programming and wondering how to use Python, this video course will give you the foundation you need to get started with Python step by step. You’ll learn how to install Python, run your first program, and understand the language’s clear syntax. You’ll also explore vari...

Building things out of the state. The post C++ futures part 2: The mental model for <CODE>std::promise</CODE>, <CODE>std::packaged_task</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

PHP News is a new site from Eric Barnes and Matt Stauffer covering PHP core, RFCs, releases, packages, and events, plus a free weekly PHP newsletter. The post PHP News: A New Site for PHP Releases, RFCs, and Packages appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles...

Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 unharnessed runs and all 10 with the harness. While addi...

Sovereign AI means control: choosing your own stack, data, and dependencies.

Every idea, business or project online starts with a name, and that means a domain. With 10 million domains now managed by Hostinger, we have a unique view into how those naming c… The post The AI domain rush has stalled, but agentic vocabulary keeps spreading appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute, RTX Spark delivers the full stack of NVIDIA RTX and […...

I recently went to LeadDev’s LDX3 engineering conference in New York, and one question kept coming up: what happens to code review now that AI writes so much of our code? It’s been on a lot of people’s minds lately, including mine. It came up in many of the sessions I went to, even ones […] The post...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s len() Function. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit which objects len() accepts, how it behaves with NumPy arrays and pandas DataFrames, and how to support it in your own classes. Along the way, you’ll see why one small function can w...

Ryan Chandler makes a strong case for keeping PR descriptions human-written, even when agents handle most of the implementation. The piece focuses on ownership, review context, and why a concise explanation from the person driving the change is more useful than a long AI-generated summary. Read more