C# Dev Kit has been rebuilt to open solutions in about a second and run on a fraction of the memory, and this post walks through what changed for you. The post A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit appeared first on .NET Blog.

Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role of well-organized documentation in providing verifiable...

Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and ch...

Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way. Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys are derived, not stored and not replicated. We’v...

VMPal gives your AI agent its own macOS, Windows, or Linux VM on Apple silicon, so Claude Code or Codex can work without you approving every prompt. The post VMPal: Give Your AI Agent a Whole Computer appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this direc...

It shouldn't execute, but for different reasons. The post Why does the compiler sometimes use <CODE>ud2</CODE> and sometimes <CODE>int 3</CODE> for code that shouldn’t execute? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.

If you’re curious about web development, then you’ve likely encountered the abbreviation MVC, which stands for Model-View-Controller. You may know that it’s a common design pattern that’s fundamental to many Python web frameworks and even desktop applications. But what exactly does it mean? If you’v...

No partnership, no custom API. Just an auth key and a tailnet.

Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost.  Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care.  NVIDIA’s latest State of AI...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Using pandas and Python to Explore Your Dataset. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to load a CSV file into a DataFrame, select and query your data with .loc and .iloc, group and aggregate values, handle missing data, and plot your result...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Exploring the MVC Pattern in Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit what models, views, and controllers are, how a user’s request travels through each of them, and how routes and templates tie the pattern together in a Flask app. Once the...

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There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie, is a project of learned habits. Twenty-some years of writing Laravel apps has taught us which patterns pay off and which ones quietly rot. One that keeps earning its keep is a custom exception class for every domain error. This is a small pattern, ...

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Unreal Engine 5.8's Unreal MCP lets coding agents drive the editor. Sentry's plugin adds tools and skills to set up Sentry and debug crashes.

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In an interview with Fast Company, Jamie Iannone made it clear that listening is central to his management style.

Many years ago, DJ got his start doing odd web development jobs for a low hourly rate. He was only 19 when he got started, and what he lacked in experience he made up for in being cheap to hire. As I said, that was many years ago, and he has since learned a lot. But he still has some code from his v...

A “groupby” call in Python Pandas is normally sorted by index. But if you’re grouping by month name, April will come before January. Pass “sort=False”, and the index will reflect […] The post Pandas groupby with sort=False: Keep groups in order of appearance appeared first on LernerPython.

Synapse from Redberry lists your Laravel AI SDK agents, lets you chat with them in the browser, and shows their tool calls and token usage. The post Synapse: A Dev Dashboard for Laravel AI SDK Agents appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this direct...

Introduction Existing systems estimate user price sensitivity primarily from spending behavior or demographic proxies. They do not systematically account for residential property values, which can indicate a user’s financial circumstances. This omission creates three limitations: Limited property in...

Conversational design almost always prioritizes persona and tone. Those matter but not as much as solving your customers' problems first.