Last week I attended an excellent conference in the Irish consulate in San Francisco titled “AI & Minority Languages: A Bay Area Perspective”. Our team at thoughtbot speaks over 25 different languages, from Swedish to Bekwarra, so this conference was of particular relevance. Here are my key takeaway...

Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud…

After twenty years on the Linux desktop, more than a dozen distros, multiple desktop environments, a seven-year tiling window manager phase, and one detour through whatever I thought of as the stable answer at the time, I'm finally in a noticeably more comfortable place than ever before.Continue rea...

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Nick and Dries share how they built Kaartje, a digital postcard wall with a spinning 3D globe that places postcards near the sender's city. It's a fun behind-the-scenes look at the stack, the role AI played during the hackathon, and the performance work needed to render hundreds of postcards smoothl...

As a software developer, you will need to become familiar with many tools and technologies as you work and grow in the field. This is not helped by the fact that it feels like new tools are being released every day, not to mention new feature updates added to tools you already know. The easiest […] ...

The agent's been talking to us through JSON. In this episode we build a real-time chat widget with Livewire, Alpine, and server-sent events so responses stream in word by word as the agent generates them. Same agent, same tools, just live. The post Ship AI with Laravel: Real-Time Streaming Chat UI w...

8th Light's Head of Agentic AI, Travis Frisinger, and I spent two days in San Francisco at LangChain Interrupt 2026 watching what happens when agent demos meet production traffic. The room was full of companies that have crossed that line, and a few that wish they hadn't tried.The conversation a yea...

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Set one Python class to inherit from another by putting the parent in (): Child.__bases__ # who does Child inherit from? The post Python class inheritance: Subclassing, __bases__, and isinstance appeared first on LernerPython.

You're an angel watching a sleeping child. Your vision into his brain is limited to a young...

We're in an age of personalized software. I see it, I like it, I vibe it, I got it. I've been watching OpenClaw from afar, while forming some ideas around what I'd want from a personal AI assistant. Keep in mind, I've never actually used OpenClaw. It seemed a bit risky. It also seemed stupid that pe...

The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job beh...

Five years ago, I had just finished three years working here at Atomic Object, and wrote up a blog post reflecting on some of the projects I had worked on, to give a window into what the job is like. Now, in 2026, it’s been eight (!) years since I started. I don’t think I’ve […] The post An Overview...

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Python uses attributes where other languages use different terms (and data structures): – Instance variable — attribute on an instance (self)– Class variable — attribute on a class– Method — […] The post Python attributes: Instance variables, class variables, and methods appeared first on LernerPyth...

How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.

Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading future capability for present-day speed, and the tools won't force us to do otherwise. That part has to come from you.

I built ZIP Shrinker, a little browser tool to shrink ZIP files. It also works with formats that are secretly ZIPs underneath, like APK, EPUB, JAR, and many more. Try it out! How does it work? At a high level, this tool (1) re-compresses every file in the ZIP archive with higher compression (2) remo...

Contrairement aux dynamiques économiques habituelles, l'intelligence artificielle semble progressivement inverser la logique traditionnelle de création de valeur : ce ne sont plus nécessairement les profils les plus juniors qui sont valorisés, mais les plus expérimentés.

InfiniteWatch is building an AI-native customer interaction intelligence platform that unifies these streams into a continuous, real-time understanding of customer behavior and operational state. At its core is Confluent.

In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe is joined by Stack Overflow’s tech lead for the infrastructure team, Josh Zhang, to learn about the cloud, compute, and data centers.

Digital sovereignty in streaming demands architectural guarantees, not policy promises. How BYOC, schema controls, and open protocols satisfy global regulations.

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Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

SummarySales and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data is messy. For decades,...