When implementing the awesome MULTISET operator in jOOQ, its implementation mostly relied on SQL/JSON support of various RDBMS. In short, while standard SQL supports nested collections via ARRAY or MULTISET operators like this: This is poorly supported in most RDBMS, so jOOQ emulates it using SQL/JS...

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Mel Conway's seminal paper "How Do Committees Invent?" (PDF) is commonly paraphrased as Conway's Law: Organizations which design systems are (broadly) constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. This is deep organisational insight that engi...

Recently, I suggested that The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic, that it’s better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather than engineering for model flexibility. If you buy that, you also have to acknowledge how important comprehensive model evaluation becomes. Benchmark...

Peter Lawrey is an Australian/British software engineer and entrepreneur best known for work on ultra-low-latency Java systems and for leading the open-source OpenHFT libraries. He is the founder and chief executive of Chronicle Software, a London-based company whose technology is used in trading an...

Mark and Julien recently represented Bootstrap in the second round of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund this past June. The program is designed to programmatically and financially improve the security and sustainability of open source projects, and we were honored to be a part of it. GitHub brought...

Atto Round 1, also known as Codeforces Round 1041, was the main event of the week (problems, results, top 5 on the left, analysis). With problem H turning out way easier than the problemsetters have expected, the top places were decided on problem G concerning permutations and their compositions, wh...

OpenAI launched GPT‑5 in August 2025, calling it their most advanced model yet. CEO Sam Altman described it as a “PhD-level expert in your pocket,” capable of tackling everything from code and math to health advice and image analysis. It’s a big upgrade over previous versions. GPT‑5 introduces a new...

Introducing bundles and closures in Geometry Nodes in Blender 5.0.

Learn how real-time infrastructure powers digital wellness apps from meditation platforms to crisis support. Build secure, engaging mental health experiences with PubNub.

Build secure wellness platforms with PubNub Chat SDK. Complete tutorial covering real-time messaging, Access Manager security, synchronized meditation sessions, and HIPAA-compliant architecture for mental health applications.

Learn how real-time infrastructure powers digital wellness apps from meditation platforms to crisis support. Build secure, engaging mental health experiences with PubNub.

Build secure wellness platforms with PubNub Chat SDK. Complete tutorial covering real-time messaging, Access Manager security, synchronized meditation sessions, and HIPAA-compliant architecture for mental health applications.

Changing the meaning of socket shapes for Blender 5.0.

Discord has built a whole new team dedicated to bringing communities more control, more power, and fewer reasons to scream into the void. Check out the first things they've done, including fixes and improvements for server management issues, onboarding, Forum channels, and mod tools.

In the previous post I talked about how we test Materialize. This time I’ll describe how I significantly sped up our Continuous Integration (CI) Test pipeline in July, especially for pull requests that require a build and full test run. The goal is to make developers more productive by reducing the ...

Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give you a closer look at the latest release, both for users eager to see the latest ...

Your users don’t care that your AI project is model agnostic. In my last project, I spent countless hours ensuring that the LLMs running my services could be swapped out as easily as possible. I couldn’t touch a device with an internet connection without hearing about the latest benchmark-breaking m...

Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give you a closer look at the latest release, both for users eager to see the latest ...

The August 2025 release includes Python shell integration support for Python 3.13+, Python Environments extension improvements, enhanced terminal suggestions with documentation, and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2025 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Bl...

The former Create.xyz has now relaunched as Anything, a new platform agent that builds and ships full-stack applications from a single prompt with support for mobile and web, production-ready designs, and built-in infrastructure, with Neon powering the backend with serverless Postgres, built-in auth...

“The entire memory layer of our agent, all its session data, is stored in Neon. It’s the backend for everything the agent remembers.” (Ran Sheinberg, co-founder and CPO of xpander.ai) xpander is a new platform built for helping developers build and run production-ready AI agents. Today, they’re laun...