Create professional maps with gridlines, and a major update to our Satellite layer, adding up-to-date high-resolution imagery for Scandinavia and the US.
It’s the 5th annual April Cools! Here are my previous April Cools articles This year it’s a book review of Ben Recht’s book, The Irraional Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose For us, released Mar 10, 2026. The publishing industry has a stupid name for the subcategory of non-fiction b...
Eight years ago we launched a library of Kotlin extensions for the Android platform, Android KTX. In the time since, the library became Core KTX, and numerous other KTX libraries were written for other AndroidX libraries. And while KTX's approach to adding Kotlin niceties was built on a strong techn...
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech EditorTopic: Developer CommunityWe analyzed 1,140 early-stage funding rounds in developer tools, cybersecurity, and infrastructure from January 2025 through March 2026. Here are the top VCs and investors writing checks, the metrics that got compa...
Welcome to anyone coming here from April Cools! I usually blog about things like cool geospatial tools, books I’ve read, Python packages I’ve created and more. But today, time for something different… I quite like making decorated birthday cakes (I’ll show some of my favourites at the end of this po...
Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy.
Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy. The video above showcases audio generated from a sample text, running entirely on the local machine previously discus...
CR Duck Conf: L'IA générative ne supprime pas les goulots d'étranglement du développement logiciel : elle les déplace. Spécification, feedback, adoption deviennent les nouveaux facteurs limitants. 5 apprentissages concrets pour adapter les pratiques d'architecture à l'ère agentic.
AWS announces the Sustainability console, a new standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting and resources, giving sustainability teams independent access to Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data without requiring billing permissions.
Qwen3.5-Omni was released today (March 30, 2026) by Alibaba's Tongyi Lab. This omnimodal model can understand text, images, audio, and video, and generate both text and speech. Key features: Thinker-Talker architecture with Hybrid-Attention Mixture of Experts, 256K token context, 100M+ hours of mult...
Back in October, we showed how Docker Model Runner on the NVIDIA DGX Spark makes it remarkably easy to run large AI models locally with the same familiar Docker experience developers already trust. That post struck a chord: hundreds of developers discovered that a compact desktop system paired with ...
"Intellectuals and Society" by Thomas Sowell - a collection of essays in which Sowell criticizes "intellectuals", by which he mostly means left-leaning thinkers and opinions. Interesting, though certainly very biased. This book is from 2009 and focuses mostly on early and mid 20th century; yes, hist...
Eli Benderskyby Eli BenderskyMar 31, 2026read🤖 Summary
The Problem: Legacy Tooling and Its Limitations Currently, Slack utilizes a hybrid approach to network measurement, incorporating both internal (such as traffic between AWS Availability Zones) and external (monitoring traffic from the public internet into Slack’s infrastructure) solutions. These too...
Agents have crossed a threshold. Over a quarter of all production code is now AI-authored, and developers who use agents are merging roughly 60% more pull requests. But these gains only come when you let agents run autonomously. And to unlock that, you have to get out of the way.That means letting a...
Meta continues to lead the industry in utilizing groundbreaking AI Recommendation Systems (RecSys) to deliver better experiences for people, and better results for advertisers. To reach the next frontier of performance, we are scaling Meta’s Ads Recommender runtime models to LLM-scale & complexity t...
I may have just automated myself into a completely different job… This is a familiar pattern among software engineers, who often, through inspiration, frustration, or sometimes even laziness, build systems to remove toil and focus on more creative work. We then end up owning and maintaining those sy...
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents. The post Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
CERAWeek — dubbed the Davos of energy — is where policymakers, producers, technologists and financiers gather to discuss how the world powers itself next. NVIDIA and Emerald AI unveiled at the conference last week a new way forward — treating AI factories not as static power loads but as flexible, ...
A thoughtful collection of principles for working with coding agents, inspired by the Zen of Python. Covers how cheap code changes prioritization, why refactoring and repaying tech debt got easier, and why your role shifts from typing code to framing problems. Read more
Freek Van der Hertenby Freek Van der HertenMar 31, 2026read🤖 Summary
Using AI as a research assistant? Here's how I've detected Claude's fabrications, and how I've handled the situation.To help relearn #Python, I've been pair-programming with Claude on a Blogger API to delete the 10K+ spam comments that have accumulated these past ten years on Adventures in Automatio...
pg_textsearch 1.0 brings native BM25 search to Postgres. No Elasticsearch sidecar needed. Learn how it works and see benchmarks vs. ParadeDB at 138M documents.
When infrastructure is simplified, the benefits scale across the entire organization: IT efficiency, worker productivity, reduced breach exposure, and serious ROI.
Tailscaleby Jillian Murphy, Will MooreMar 31, 2026read🤖 Summary
Magic Transit customers can now program their own DDoS mitigation logic and deploy it across Cloudflare’s global network. This enables precise, stateful mitigation for custom and proprietary UDP protocols.
It was going to be like that when I got here. The post Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn’t a problem before the update appeared first on The Old New Thing.
You may need to add Python to PATH if you’ve installed Python, but typing python on the command line doesn’t seem to work. You might see a message saying that python isn’t recognized, or you might end up running the wrong version of Python. A common fix for these problems is adding Python to the PAT...
If you've been sending email through Postmark lately, your messages have been moving through an entirely new engine (and you probably didn't notice a thing). That's exactly how we wanted it.We've completed our migration from PowerMTA to KumoMTA, an open-source, high-performance mail transfer agent (...