KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all the highlights you won’t want to miss. Let’s...

Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin today from the Cursor Marketplace to give Cursor live access to your Neon organization along with th...

⚠️ I wrote this in 2016 (yes, 10 years ago), and never actually hit publish 🤦 I found it now while I was going through my drafts. What’s…

Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this video course, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats, and common pitfalls to avoid, ensuring your documentation is accessible to users and tools alike. By the end...

Aperture is an AI gateway inside your network, one that takes the friction out of deploying AI for your organization.

Posted by The Google I/O TeamGoogle I/O returns May 19–20Google I/O is back! Join us online as we share our latest AI breakthroughs and updates in products across the company, from Gemini to Android, Chrome, Cloud, and more.Tune in to learn about agentic coding and the latest Gemini model updates. T...

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the user to approve, and replies to some emails aut...

Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive portfolio that includes SQL Server, CosmosDB, and Postgres; and the challenges that come with database architecture, from the importance of cost governan...

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI's recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context engineering, architectural constraints, and garbage collection of the code base. It's a serious activity: OpenAI too...

Posted by Shai Barack, Android Platform Performance Lead and Charles Munger, Principal Software EngineerIn Android 17, apps targeting SDK 37 or higher will receive a new implementation of MessageQueue where the implementation is lock-free. The new implementation improves performance and reduces miss...

The German alphabet has 30 letters, but you are more familiar with them than you think. The post The German Alphabet: Your Pronunciation Guide appeared first on Babbel.

From an enterprise resource app owner’s perspective, Cross App Access (XAA) is a game-changer because it allows their resources to be “AI-ready” without compromising on security. In the XAA model, resource apps rely on the enterprise’s Identity Provider (IdP) to manage access. Instead of building ou...

What is the difference between the X startup scripts?X is a display server. Depending on how you start your X session, different X-related startup scripts may be important to you.AllThese are usually places to export your environment variables, including PATH. You can set different X-related attribu...

This sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Hehe.The situationI run npm audit in CI. This helps discover security issues, published as CVEs, in the 3rd-party dependencies on the project.Recently, a CVE came up for ajv, a validation library that was found to be subject to a regex DOS attack. It was fix...

Here's how to run an AI model locally.It's easy to get started with ollama. It's free. It's local.Get ollamaDownload ollama:curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | shNow you have an ollama command. This command will be used to install models, chat with it, or launch other clients.Choose a modelFi...

Authors: Andrey Sitnik, Author of PostCSS and Autoprefixer, Principal Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech EditorTopics: Open Source, Developer CommunityWith 20+ years and millions of downloads, PostCSS creator Andrey Sitnik shares his guide on how to make your open source project popular.I've...

When you ship a Next.js app, the React and TypeScript you write aren’t what your users actually download. Next.js compiles, minifies, splits, and shuffles your ...

Also known as split testing or multivariate testing , A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…

This is the story of how a RocksDB unit test I added four years ago, a mini-stress test you might call it, revealed a novel hardware bug in a newer CPU. It was scary enough to be assigned a “high severity” CVE. Background: Unique Identifiers About four years ago, we added unique identifiers to SST f...