Are you speaking at Meetups, conferences, and other events frequently? How are you keeping track of the call for papers (CFPs) that you've submitted? Are you using messy spreadsheets? Tracking your su... The post Introducing CFP Manager to Manage Speaking Engagements for the Team appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.
1 May
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment
Raymond ChenRecovering from death of the owner. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Dispatches from O'Reilly: Fast paths and slow paths
Stack OverflowSelective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale. …
Dynamic Workflows is a library that lets you route durable execution to tenant-provided code on the fly. Built on Dynamic Workers, it enables platforms to serve millions of unique workflows at near-zero idle cost.
A Virtual Agent team at Docker: How the Coding Agent Sandboxes team uses a fleet of agents to ship faster
DockerI work on Coding Agent Sandboxes, aka “sbx” at Docker. The project provides secure, microVM-based isolation for running AI coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, Docker Agent and Kiro. Agents get full autonomy inside a sandbox (their own Docker daemon, network, filesystem) without touching your host system. Over the past couple of weeks, we...
97% of executives say they’ve deployed AI in the past year. Only 29% say they’re seeing real ROI. (Both from Writer’s 2026 Enterprise AI Adoption survey — 2,400 global leaders) I’ve been sitting with that gap for weeks now — not because the numbers surprise me, but because I keep watching it play out in […] The post “Hours Saved”…
The Real Python Podcast – Episode #293: Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair
Real PythonHow do you add agent skills to your data science workflow? How can a coding agent assist with data wrangling and research? This week on the show, Trevor Manz from marimo joins us to discuss marimo pair. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple…
In Blender 5.2 LTS, rendering scenes with many image textures will become much more memory efficient.
Time is a construct but it can still break your software
Stack OverflowRyan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix it. …
null How to Build a JSON Training Dataset from PDF Documents Without Manual Annotation on SitePoint.
Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free subscription, so I filled it out and gave it a shot. Once…
A Ritz-Carlton hotel in California closed an entrance after a hummingbird made a nest on a door handle and, amidst all the daily ambient horror of simply being a person with a phone in 2026, it is nice to be reminded of the kinds of small lives we still agree to make room for. --- Have you noticed that we…
The nvptx64-nvidia-cuda target is a compilation target for NVIDIA GPUs. When using this target, the final output is PTX. Two version choices shape that output: a GPU architecture (for example, sm_70, sm_80, …), which determines which GPUs can run the PTX, and a PTX ISA version, which determines which CUDA driver versions can load (and JIT-compile) the PTX. In Rust…
When candidates put AI on their resume, the key thing I try to find out is whether they used evals. How did you measure making improvements?
I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So I let him. I got every fuckin’ rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. Towards the end I started askin’ him buying questions, like what’s the firm minimum? That’s a…
30 Apr
Exactly ten years ago, I gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup titled 5 Kung Fu Moves for Front-End Heroes. A full decade later, I found myself wondering: are these techniques still the secret sauce for modern front-end engineering, or have they been rendered obsolete by time?
By early 2026, the open source project OpenClaw had become a phenomenon. In January, its GitHub star count crossed 100,000 as developer interest surged.
The National Health Service (NHS) has delivered universal healthcare to an entire nation for over 75 years. With 1.5 million staff providing care to approximately 57 million patients across hundreds of hospital trusts — using decades old legacy infrastructure — the NHS is one of the most operationally complex organisations on earth. For most of its history, the NHS has…
Learn how we built ConferencePulse, an AI-powered conference assistant, using .NET's composable AI stack including Microsoft.Extensions.AI, DataIngestion, VectorData, Model Context Protocol, and Microsoft Agent Framework. The post Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET’s Composable AI Stack appeared first on .NET Blog.
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI
Stack OverflowAgents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way. …
In November 2025, a team self-hosting Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, on Kubernetes uploaded their ClickHouse image to AWS ECR as part of their production preparation. They found that the pipeline scanner had returned three critical vulnerabilities - not in ClickHouse, but in the base image. Their security team saw the findings and blocked...
Also: Anthropic’s speed run to break devs’ goodwill, big price increases from GitHub Copilot, Mitchell Hashimoto on the “building block economy,” and more
Let the exclusive acquisition have a fair chance against shared acquisitions. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 3: Fairness appeared first on The Old New Thing.
It’s Gonna Be May: 16 Games Hit the Cloud This Month, With More NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Power
Nvidia[Editor’s note] The blog has been updated to note that GeForce RTX 5080-power expansion also extends to the Install-to-Play library. It’s gonna be May — and the cloud’s in full festival mode. 16 games are joining GeForce NOW this month, including new AAA titles arriving on launch day from Steam, Xbox, PC Game Pass and […]
One important practice we employ at Atomic is developer rotations. This provides benefits for the longer-term success of the project and keeps our developers at the top of their game. While you might assume that long-running project teams, living with the project through its conception, implementation, and maintenance, might be the most effective approach, I’ve found […] The post How…
At PayPalDevDay 2025, PayPal’s Nathaniel Olson discussed a familiar problem. When he asked an AI coding assistant to build a product involving APIs, it was far too common for the AI to use outdated APIs rather than the most current iterations. It’s not that the official documentation or SDKs weren’t up-to-date, it’s the fact that ...
Author: Alain Rakotomamonjy From ideation to outcome, this is the story of a privacy-preserving research project. It tells how research can generate innovations but also joy and despair. Early 2024: The “Hammer” Phase Two research leads who pioneered Criteo’s early privacy initiatives, as part of the Criteo multi-year research program, introduced me to a challenge born from the Privacy Sandbox…
The past couple of weeks, I've been working with an ESP32 chip. I'm making experiments at this moment: my goal is to find out if these chips are good enough now. Many years ago I started with ESP8266 chips and they were clearly not: they were so resource-limited that they could not do TLS (and by extension, HTTPS). Any interesting…
Introducing Advanced Account Security: phishing-resistant login, stronger recovery, and enhanced protections to safeguard sensitive data and prevent account takeover.
As previously announced, the Rust Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026. GSoC is a global program organized by Google that is designed to bring new contributors to the world of open source. A few months ago, we published a list of GSoC project ideas, and started discussing these projects with potential GSoC applicants on our Zulip.…
29 Apr
OpenAI has rolled out two updates that on the surface seem like two separate things, but actually share a common thread. GPT-5.5 makes a big jump in terms of reasoning, coding and tool use, while GPT Image 2 focuses on image generation and editing. At first glance, it’s not the individual new features that stand […] The post GPT-5.5 and…
How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.
Odoo is a suite of open source business applications. It offers a range of modules that can be installed within ... Read More The post How to Install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 appeared first on RoseHosting.
Learn how to govern MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit—policy-based access control, security scanning, and response sanitization to reduce risk in AI agent systems. The post Governing MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit appeared first on .NET Blog.
VSTest is removing its Newtonsoft.Json dependency in .NET 11 and Visual Studio 18.8. Here's who is affected and how to fix it. The post VSTest is Removing its Newtonsoft.Json Dependency appeared first on .NET Blog.
If you need to send emails from an application, it’s a good idea to think about how your usage changes over time. As with many technology choices, there’s a tradeoff between up-front efficiency and long-term flexibility. You have two main choices for sending emails through your Python application. The first is SMTP — the standard protocol for outgoing email. The…
null How AI Virtual Assistants Are Powering No-Code Platforms Behind the Scenes on SitePoint.
OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.
Mario Zechner, creator of Pi, joins Armin Ronacher to explore AI coding’s limits, arguing that human judgment still matters most in an agent-driven world.
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby
Raymond ChenPlease, not everybody, everything all at once. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Chris Parsons has updated his guide on using AI to code. This is his third update, what I like about it is that he gives a lot of concrete information about how he uses AI, with sufficient detail that we can learn from him. His advice also resonates with the better advice I’ve seen out there, so the article makes…
Table of Contents In this tutorial series, I will introduce the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme from the ground up, in rather intricate detail. Each article in this series corresponds to a pull request on a GitHub repository. The code for this article is in this pull request. Follow along by cloning the repository and checking out the code at the…
My software development team had a client who wanted to represent activity on a stage, not in the usual top-down layout that shows up all over the internet. A 3D stage? Reasonable request, slightly unreasonable visual problem. My wacky idea: what if this was mostly CSS? Maybe a little JavaScript. But mostly CSS. It turns […] The post How to…
From painting to immersive design, Sofia Papadopoulou’s path reflects a constant evolution across mediums.
2025 marks the fourth consecutive year we’ve published our Sustainability Report in line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. It’s also the year we put a name … The post Building for now, preparing for what’s next: Hostinger’s 2025 Sustainability Report appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Q1 Revenue of $3.1 billion; GMV of $22.2 billion.
There’s much more to effective translation than just providing a language switcher dropdown. The idea that merely swapping out English for Chinese or Spanish is enough to get by is a misconception that actively harms businesses who are trying to appeal to a truly global audience. Modern translation APIs go beyond language swaps, handling tone ...
The slot machine hasn't changed in 100 years. That's the opportunity: GaudHammer's Anthony Gaud on real money video games and the future of iGaming
PubNubGaudHammer Gaming Group co-CEO Anthony Gaud explains how video game mechanics, like those seen in successful "crash games," will bridge the 30-year gap between traditional gambling and the wants of modern gamers. He details why shifting retention from bonus dollars to engaging content and building regulatory compliant infrastructure is crucial for forming the "next Electronic Arts" in the iGaming space.
OpenAI outlines a five-part action plan for strengthening cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age, focused on democratizing AI-powered cyber defense and protecting critical systems.
Evaluating AI at Scale: How Thumbtack Approaches Reliability, Safety, and Quality in GenAI
ThumbtackA practical look at how Thumbtack navigates evaluation for emerging AI experiences and what we’ve learned along the way. By: Shishir Dash , Director of Applied Science & Teja Venkat Kolli , Senior Applied Scientist Evaluating AI at Scale Introduction AI is reshaping how people interact with products, and Thumbtack is no exception. We’re introducing AI into more aspects of…
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.1 with a couple of regressions fixed. See the release notes of 1.20.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.20. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions. Stats Section titled Stats This release includes 9 changes since 1.20.0 by 2 contributors. We…
On March 25th, voice and video on Discord suffered major degradation beginning at 12:13 PDT, lasting a little over three hours. Learn how the issue originated, how it affected systems across Discord, how we recovered, and how we’re preventing the same problem from reoccurring.
Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or Shared Payment Token (SPT) backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.
We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.
28 Apr
A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET
Microsoft Semantic KernelAs organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organizational boundaries becomes essential. With the release of A2A Protocol v1.0 and updated support in the Microsoft Agent Framework, you can now connect and expose your AI agents using a stable, production-ready interoperability standard – […] The post A2A v1…
If you're just starting to dabble with MongoDB, you've probably come to a point where your documents are looking a little complex. These documents might have gone from flat, relational-looking pieces ... The post Using Dot Notation to Query Nested Fields in MongoDB appeared first on DataCamp.
At the "What's Next with AWS" 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthcare. AWS also expended its partnership with OpenAI, bringing models like GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.
SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 is here. Learn all about the new features and how Uno Platform has stepped up as a co-maintainer. The post Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 appeared first on .NET Blog.
Adding caching to your application architecture can significantly improve key performance metrics, cut latency, and reduce load across downstream systems. In this walkthrough, we highlight the latest caching best practices and incorporate these design patterns into a reusable .NET application that you can reference when adding new capabilities to your application stack. The post High-Performance Distributed Caching with .NET and…
How Airbnb built a lightweight workflow engine to solve durable execution. By : Ricardo Gamba , Andriy Sergiyenko Introduction: The durable execution problem Picture this hypothetical flow: A host submits an insurance claim about their listing to Airbnb. The system needs to validate the claim, run trust and safety checks, assess estimates, process the payout, and send notifications. Halfway through…
Learn how to implement API versioning in your .NET 10 applications using OpenAPI for better API management and documentation. The post Combining API versioning with OpenAPI in .NET 10 applications appeared first on .NET Blog.
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents
NvidiaAI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other. Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open multimodal model that brings these capabilities together into one system, enabling agents to deliver faster, smarter responses with […]
A scroll-driven 3D world built from scratch with Three.js, GSAP, and WebGL — where every technical decision serves a message worth sharing.
The Palantir Ontology Palantir’s software powers real-time, human-agent decision-making in many of the most critical commercial and government contexts around the world. From disaster response to nuclear energy production , our customers depend on Palantir AIP to safely, securely, and effectively leverage AI in their enterprises — and drive operational transformation. While many factors contribute to achieving and scaling operational…
A deepdive with the Canonical team into how AI is changing Ubuntu, why they’re betting on local-first LLMs, and a look into other Linux distributions
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore
Raymond ChenA pot of tokens. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Python standard library ships with a testing framework named unittest, which you can use to write automated tests for your code. The unittest package has an object-oriented approach where test cases derive from a base class, which has several useful methods. The framework supports many features that will help you write consistent unit tests for your code. These features…
LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been using them for their teams and have developed a method and workflow called Structured Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD). Wei Zhang and Jessie Jie Xia describe a simple example of this workflow with details in github. This workflow treats the prompts as…
Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.
Turning scattered knowledge into trusted intelligence: Stack Internal 2026.3
Stack OverflowNow generally available in the 2026.3 release, Ingestion transforms siloed content into structured, verified knowledge—optimized for both your teams and AI. …
A few years back, I created portable-color for adding color to shell scripts. Then I deprecated it in favor of a new library, dye, that fixed a number of things that bothered me about portable-color. dye eventually added its own built-in templating, which meant users could just print a string full of things like “{{red}}” […] The post How I…
Expedia Group Technology — Engineering A system that facilitates investigation of service degradations and outages using service telemetry data and AI Photo by Evangelos Mpikakis on Unsplash. The recent advancements in the artificial intelligence space make us re-evaluate how work is done. From programming, to designing systems, or even operating them in production. While there is considerable focus on automating…
Your LLM issues are really data issues
Stack OverflowRyan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured production data. …
In February 2026, nearly 3,000 Google API keys were accidentally exposed. Data breaches are always damaging, but a data breach due to an authenticated, active API key can be catastrophic. An active API key allows actors to access uploaded files, cached data, and charge LLM-usage to your account, as noted by cybersecurity researcher Joe Leon. ...
Cypress-the-company is putting a lot of effort behind its cy.prompt command (which I recreated in cypress-think), so let's see if it is any good. I took a simple login form and tried to create a test using three different approaches: coding in VSCode using "update the test / Cypress reruns it / update the test" using cy.prompt command from text…
You have a monolith, and you are proud of it. One repo, one deployment, one database - no Kubernetes, no service mesh. You have watched teams burn months “extracting microservices” and come out slower than when they started. You stayed sensible. You kept the monolith.
OpenAI GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available on AWS, enabling enterprises to build secure AI in their AWS environments.
Learn how OpenAI protects community safety in ChatGPT through model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, and collaboration with safety experts.
27 Apr
The April 2026 release update includes the Python Environments extension... Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python Environments Extension for VS Code- April Update appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Deloitte optimizes EKS environment provisioning and achieves 89% faster testing environments using Amazon EKS and vCluster
AWS ArchitectureIn this post, we explore how Deloitte used Amazon EKS and vCluster to transform their testing infrastructure.
Java remains one of the most powerful, versatile, and relevant programming languages in the world. Java 25 brings exciting new ... Read More The post How to Install Java 25 on Ubuntu 26.04 appeared first on RoseHosting.
From Clicks to Conversions: Architecting Shopping Conversion Candidate Generation at Pinterest
PinterestAuthors: Richard Huang | Machine Learning Engineer II; Yu Liu | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Ziwei Guo | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Andy Mao | Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Supeng Ge | Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer Introduction At Pinterest, conversion ads are crucial for matching users with products they are likely to purchase, boosting value for both users and…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026)
AWSLate March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and a powerful reminder of something […]
A two-person studio working between Bristol and Paris, redefining web design by crafting immersive, spatial experiences that feel less like pages and more like places.
OpenAI is available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U.S. federal agencies.
Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures
Raymond ChenIt's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse. The post Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Welcome to the “find out” stage of AI
Stack OverflowAI companies are looking a little different after going through a few renewal cycles. …
Why account-to-account payments are better than cards for agentic commerce.
Previously, I showed how you can use JSDoc and jsconfig.json as a replacement for TypeScript style type checking — without a build step, no less. At the end of that post I teased an ESLint follow-up. And here we are, I’m happy you’re here. First Things First Before jumping in, I wanted to address a […] The post More on…
Vibe marketing is an AI-accelerated, emotion-first approach to brand-building that prioritizes aesthetic identity, cultural fluency, and emotional resonance – the feeling a brand … The post Vibe marketing statistics 2026: Emotional branding, Gen Z behavior, and AI adoption appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
OpenAI and Microsoft announce an amended agreement that simplifies the partnership, adds long-term clarity, and supports continued AI innovation at scale.
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.19.2 with two regressions fixed. See the release notes of 1.19.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.19. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions. Stats Section titled Stats This release includes 3 changes since 1.19.1 by 2 contributors. We thank all…
Learn how Symphony, an open-source spec for Codex orchestration, turns issue trackers into always-on agent systems—boosting engineering output and reducing context switching.
How Choco used OpenAI APIs to streamline food distribution, boost productivity, and unlock growth—an in-depth customer story on real-world AI impact.
26 Apr
Growth in large organizations comes down to alignment to business outcomes, not just marketing activity. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Matt Diiorio of Prudential joins Jeff Gangemi to discuss how aligning marketing to business outcomes, building high-performing teams, and focusing on value creation drives real impact.
Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.
I’ve never really been great at side questing in video games. In most games I play, I tend to lock in on the main storyline. The objective is clear, the path is defined, and progress feels measurable. Side quests exist but they get pushed off with the assumption that I’ll come back to them later. […] The post Software Development…
Most people say the City watches us all the time: on the streets, at work, in the shower, while we sleep. Most...
I've been doing a lot of technical spring cleaning this year. My dotfiles have been getting a lot of love, and I've been breaking up with quite a few services. As part of this little journey, I've decided that I want less apps on my phone. I started by going through the App Library list to identify anything I had…
25 Apr
Over the past 14 months on my current project with an AI startup, I’ve typed out an average novel length’s worth of meeting notes. Here’s a quick summary: Metric Value Total files (1 file per meeting) 132 Total words 77,967 Total characters 429,329 Average words per file ~590 Average characters per file ~3,252 It might […] The post Why I…