How do you automatically format your Swift code every time you commit it to your Git repository? Swift Format There are several Swift formatting tools. Xcode 16 shipped with swift-format included in the toolchain: $ xcrun --find swift-format /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/ Xco...

If you’ve ever had an app crash at the worst possible moment, you’ll know how frustrating it can be - both for developers and players. Recently, I wrote an article for the Microsoft Developer blog that dives deep into this exact challenge: how to diagnose and

If you’ve ever had an app crash at the worst possible moment, you’ll know how frustrating it can be - both for developers and players. Recently, I wrote an article for the Microsoft Developer blog that dives deep into this exact challenge: how to diagnose and

Introduction My friend, Denis Magda, wrote a wonderful book called Just Use Postgres!, and I’m glad that I got the chance to read it. Audience This book is useful for any software developer who’s either using PostgreSQL or plans on using it because it covers a lot of features that are very useful fo...

In e-commerce, we all know that speed = money. I know it, you know it, Amazon knows it, eBay knows it, Shopify knows it, everyone knows it. In this article we’l...

We recommend redirecting users to authenticate via the Okta-hosted sign-in page powered by the Okta Identity Engine (OIE) for your custom-built applications. It’s the most secure method for authenticating. You don’t have to manage credentials in your code and can take advantage of the strongest auth...

The Budget, 2026 Edition Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Updated network test parameters for 2026 are: 9 Mbps downlink 3 mbps uplink 100 millisecond RTT Regarding devices, my updated recommendations are the Samsung Galaxy A24 4G (or equivalent) and the HP 14. The goal of these recommendations is t...

Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is now available for all Warp users. Claude Opus 4.5 is built for long-horizon tasks, which pairs perfectly with Warp’s new planning entrypoint: /plan. Creating a persistent plan gives Claude Opus 4.5 a structured place to document its reasoning and decisio...

When I was working at Shopify, major traffic moments were our Superbowl. We initiated code-freeze weeks before to make sure merchants wouldn’t have any unexpect...

Update: We got over 200 submissions to this challenge, spanning a wide variety of HDL languages and hardware platforms! We featured our favorite submissions in the results blog post, check it out here

Over the past few months, I have been struggling with the Hyprland screen‑share dialog (hyprland-share-picker via xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland). Under the hood, Chromium / OBS talk to xdg-desktop-portal, which hands off to xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland. That launches hyprland-share-picker (a Qt dialog)...

We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger...

Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has made listening to customers a top priority, saying at Intel Vision earlier this year: "Please be brutally honest with us. This is what I expect of you this week, and I believe harsh feedback is most valuable." I'd been in regular meetings with Intel for several years...

What did you do, for whom, did it work

What did you do, for whom, did it work

Insights from Singapore Tech Week and 2025 Tech in Asia Conference on how AI and real-time innovation are reshaping Asia's tech landscape — and how PubNub helps power it.

Insights from Singapore Tech Week and 2025 Tech in Asia Conference on how AI and real-time innovation are reshaping Asia's tech landscape — and how PubNub helps power it.

Congratulations to Pierce Edmiston and Hugh Sato, our latest recipients of 8th Light’s Beacon Award! Our Beacon Award recognizes team members who exemplify 8th Light's values and inspire us all.Pierce and Hugh represent two different strengths within 8th Light that come together to create meaningful...

A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem.