.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more! The post Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 appeared first on .NET Blog.
9 Sept 2025
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2025. The post .NET and .NET Framework September 2025 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
Discover how SafetyKit leverages OpenAI GPT-5 to enhance content moderation, enforce compliance, and outpace legacy safety systems with greater accuracy .
Following on from my earlier exploration of JWKS (RFC7517), I found myself needing to convert the JWKS into PEM format. This time I turned to Python with my preference of using uv with inline script metadata and created jwks-to-pem.py. The really nice thing about inline script metadata is that we can use the cryptography package to do all the hard…
With open banking, A2A payments are now faster and more secure than ever before.
Turn your domain name into a monetizable storefront that sells and grows your brand. With the new link-in-bio website option in Hostinger Website Builder, it’s just a few clicks a… The post Turn followers into customers with a link-in-bio website appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Practical takeaways for faster prototyping, customer demos, and vendor exploration
In the blog post Test Tag Suggestions Using AI I described a system to pick a testing tag based on a pull request's title and body text. In this blog post, I will make it useful. Whenever a user opens a GitHub issue and labels it a "bug", an automated workflow will pick an appropriate testing tag (or several) and…
Beyond income there's 2 reasons to take any specific job: Invest in yourself or invest in the company. Both is best.
8 Sept 2025
Devices or machines connected to your router typically have a dynamic IP address. The DHCP server assigns a dynamic IP ... Read More The post How to Configure a Static IP Address on Debian 13 appeared first on RoseHosting.
Watch our short webinar with Clay to find out how to simplify the entire payments lifecycle, from receiving payments to sending.
Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025, for unrestricted grants that help communities shape AI for the public good.
Phuong Van reflects on her first ElixirConf US, highlighting inspiring talks on AI, community, and engineering. The post ElixirConf US 2025: Highlights from My First ElixirConf appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Heartbeats: How Synthetic Traffic Keeps Us Running Let me take you on a journey of how we came to use heartbeats in our application design. It’s a happy story of love and no broken hearts along the way. What are heartbeats? What my teams have called heartbeats are a form of synthetic traffic generated by the application itself. The deployed…
Yes, higher compensation means you won't have as many options to choose from, but fewer does not mean none. As long as you can demonstrate measurable impact, there will always be opportunities at every compensation level.
7 Sept 2025
Swift 6.2 makes it easier to interpolate strings with optional values. What’s The Problem? In this SwiftUI view I need to create a text string from an optional integer value: struct CounterView: View { let count: Int? var body: some View { Text("The count is \(count)") } } The compiler warns about the optional value: String interpolation produces a debug…
6 Sept 2025
Everything we interact with today is a "distributed system". From microservices to cloud-native applications, from databases to message queues. We are constantly building systems that span multiple machines. But there comes a fundamental challenge - how do we ensure that all independent nodes agree on shared state?
5 Sept 2025
OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.
OpenAI and the Greek Government have launched “OpenAI for Greece” to bring ChatGPT Edu into secondary schools and support responsible AI learning. This partnership aims to boost AI literacy, fuel local start-ups, and drive national economic growth.
Database deadlocks are one of the most challenging concurrency issues encountered in production systems. Understanding why they occur and how databases handle them is important in building robust applications.
4 Sept 2025
OpenAI is launching a Jobs Platform and new Certifications to connect workers with jobs, training, and certifications. Learn how we’re expanding economic opportunity and making AI skills more accessible.
Artificial intelligence (AI) bots now scrape websites to train models and answer questions directly, often without sending traffic back to the original sources. Our new AI audit f… The post Your website, your rules: Track and control AI bots appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
As cyberattacks evolve to unprecedented levels of sophistication and speed, the time gap between breach detection and response has never been more critical. Traditional security approaches often operate reactively, identifying compromises only after damage has occurred. This delay grants attackers a tactical advantage, forcing security teams to focus on damage assessment and remediation rather than…
While we write code thinking about algorithms and data structures, the CPU is quietly making millions of decisions about what data to keep close and what to evict from its precious cache memory.
3 Sept 2025
In this tutorial, we will explain the 301 Moved Permanently redirect status code and provide guidance on how to resolve ... Read More The post 301 Error: What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on RoseHosting.
See how GitHub Copilot Coding Agent automates unit tests and ships features from a PRD in a real .NET sample, so you can focus on design and review. The post Let Copilot Coding Agent handle the busy work appeared first on .NET Blog.
Ask Copilot agent to write the full end-to-end test and it is likely to write nonsense. For example, let's test the "zero teams / zero players" message on my soccer web app. I can start a new test in the existing "Teams" spec file cypress/e2e/teams.cy.js 1 2 3 describe('Teams', () => { it.only('shows zero teams and zero players message', ()…
While strong consistency might seem like the obvious choice - given it keeps the data perfectly synchronized at all times - the reality is that eventual consistency has become the preferred approach for most large-scale distributed systems. But why so...
This version introduces the new version of the Docker integration, Docker image attestation, Makeself packaging support, Go 1.25, and much more!
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
2 Sept 2025
We’re sharing how Meta is applying machine learning (ML) and diversity algorithms to improve notification quality and user experience. We’ve introduced a diversity-aware notification ranking framework to reduce uniformity and deliver a more varied and engaging mix of notifications. This new framework reduces the volume of notifications and drives higher engagement rates through more diverse [...] Read More... The post…
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
From sketch to merch store in minutes: Turn your creativity into income with print on demand
HostingerHave a brilliant t-shirt idea? A meme worth printing on a mug? Or a personal brand that deserves its own merch line? With Hostinger’s new print-on-demand (PoD) integration powered… The post From sketch to merch store in minutes: Turn your creativity into income with print on demand appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Recently, since getting a new computer, I've noticed that I've been losing bash history items and it took a while to work out what was going on, though I'm still not completely sure as it never seemed to be so much of a problem. I regularly use the up and down keys with context specific history. For example, I will…
We’re partnering with experts, strengthening protections for teens with parental controls, and routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models in ChatGPT.
TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and lets standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain relevance. Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence, which it has parleyed into suppression of browser…
DNS is one of the most critical pieces of internet infrastructure, quietly translating human-readable domain names into IP addresses billions of times per day.
From March 1st, 2026, all clients and apps must be updated to utilize DAVE’s end-to-end encryption support for voice and video calls. In this blog, we explore the challenges we encountered bringing E2EE to browsers, and share what you may need to do to ensure your app can still connect to voice calls in 2026.
So this talk is my attempt to step back and write down some of the things I've learned. Hope you find something to apply in your team.
1 Sept 2025
Nextcloud is recognized as the leading open-source self-hosted file sync and sharing software. It presents itself as an alternative to ... Read More The post How to Install NextCloud on AlmaLinux 10 appeared first on RoseHosting.
In Swift 6.2, Swift Packages give us control over which compiler warnings to treat as errors. Finer-grained Controls for Compiler Warnings The Swift compiler has options to treat all warnings as errors or suppress all warnings: -warnings-as-errors -suppress-warnings In Xcode, you add those compiler flags to the build settings for a target. In the “Swift Compiler - Custom Flags” section…
Toptal’s Senior Client Solutions Advisor explores how leading companies like SAS and ServiceNow successfully updated their business models—and shares advice for other organizations looking to do the same.
If you're aiming for research, go for a top school and squeeze every drop of value. If you want to switch domains or countries but can't break in otherwise (via job switches), a master's can help bridge that gap. But, doing it just because it feels like the “next step” is usually not worth it.
29 Aug 2025
Case Study: Modernizing a High-Traffic Streaming Platform with the AHA Stack (HTMX & Alpine.js)
RisingStackOur client, a leading company in the streaming industry, acquired a highly successful indie website with over 50 million unique visitors per month. The site had been built by a single developer who prioritized functionality over maintainability. While the features were mostly bug-free, the design was outdated, and the code relied on aging technologies. The […] The post Case Study:…
Our healthcare technology round-up highlights how remote monitoring, big data, and generative AI are transforming care. The post Healthcare Blog Round-Up appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Save the date for MapTiler Connect 25, our first ever user conference! October 21st
28 Aug 2025
In production environments, debugging alerts can sometimes feel like finding a needle in a haystack. Over the years, I’ve found the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model to be a reliable guide during Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of production issues. What is the OSI Model? The OSI model is a conceptual framework that standardizes the functions of a telecommunication or computing…
The Aspire CLI is here and you can use it to configure and run your applications The post Getting Started with the Aspire CLI appeared first on .NET Blog.
How we made our filtering 10x cheaper by removing our Bloom Filters Bloom Filters are great tools to make fast and cheap filtering. They also come with plenty of problems and can easily get expensive and cumbersome. We switched to user-based direct database queries, which made our filtering cheaper and easy to maintain. Here’s the full breakdown of that migration.…
We’re releasing a more advanced speech-to-speech model and new API capabilities including MCP server support, image input, and SIP phone calling support.
See how Claude Code subagents extend the power of AI coding. This guide covers subagent architecture, hooks, MCP servers, and human-in-the-loop patterns for building reproducible software pipelines. Includes practical examples, best practices, and implementation guide for any codebase.
OpenAI launches a $50M People-First AI Fund to help U.S. nonprofits scale impact with AI. Applications open Sept 8–Oct 8, 2025 for grants in education, healthcare, research, and more.
27 Aug 2025
In this blog post, we will explain what the HTTP 417 Expectation Failed error is and how to fix it. ... Read More The post HTTP 417 Error Expectation Failed: What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on RoseHosting.
A Visual Studio extension that helps developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans directly within their development environment. The post EFCore.Visualizer – View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio appeared first on .NET Blog.
OpenAI surveyed over 1,000 people worldwide on how AI should behave and compared their views to our Model Spec. Learn how collective alignment is shaping AI defaults to better reflect diverse human values and perspectives.
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highlighting progress, challenges, and the value of cross-lab collaboration.
Looking to create a new Discord server for the first time? How do you invite your friends to it? What even IS a text or voice channel in Discord? Follow along as we help you start up a new place to talk and play games with your friends.
Yet again, we’re at the end of our internship season, and so it’s time to summarize what the interns were up to!
26 Aug 2025
The Kotlin incremental compiler has been a true gem for developers chasing faster compilation since its introduction in build tools. Now, we’re excited to bring its benefits to Buck2 – Meta’s build system – to unlock even more speed and efficiency for Kotlin developers. Unlike a traditional compiler that recompiles an entire module every time, [...] Read More... The post…
How we made our email story recommendations better In this Part 1, you’ll understand how we improved one of the main ways our users are exposed to our product and how that led to a massive 7% increase on the average reading time for the digest users. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm…
As part of our mission to empower small businesses, we're bringing the Impulso Hostinger project to Mexico. Following successful launches in Indonesia and Brazil, the program will… The post Supporting online business dreams in Mexico appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
One project that I'm working on uses RFC 9457 Problem Details for HTTP APIs for its error responses. In the OpenAPI spec, we can define this as a component and use in the relevant paths as appropriate: components: schemas: ProblemDetails: type: object properties: type: type: string format: uri-reference description: A URI reference that identifies the problem type default: about:blank example:…
Planning for Supply Chain Uncertainty: A New Framework to Guide Strategic Action in Manufacturing
ToptalUnpredictability has become the norm in manufacturing supply chains. Use this diagnostic framework to evaluate structural risk and prioritize strategic actions that build lasting resilience.
How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.
A fresh set of 2024 aerial images has just been added to our satellite map, covering the Netherlands in remarkable clarity. The new data comes at 7.5 cm/px resolution, capturing the country’s unique mix of landscapes and cities with impressive precision.
Great for learning those little tricks of the trade you forgot you even learned
25 Aug 2025
Cross-Digest diversification In this part 4, we’ll see how we went from investigating a few complaints from digest power users to improving our digest recommendations across the board. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm behind the Medium’s Daily Digest over the past year. When we started this work, the Digest was suboptimal —…
Hard vs Soft Filtering and how this applies to Medium’s Recommendation System In this part 3 we’ll see how we modified one of our hard filtering rules and attempted to turn it into a machine learning based “soft filter”. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm behind the Medium’s Daily Digest over the past…
In this tutorial, we will explain what the HTTP 414 error URI too long is and how to fix it. ... Read More The post HTTP 414 Error URI Too Long: What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on RoseHosting.
A look at how the Model-View-Update pattern can complement the .NET MAUI ecosystem The post MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI appeared first on .NET Blog.
Bootstrap v5.3.8 is out with a reversion for a dropdown focus bug, some CSS updates, and several docs updates. The plan is for this to be the last patch release before v5.4.0 drops. To start, there’s a brief update on Bootstrap Themes, with more communication to come. The team has decided to sunset https://themes.getbootstrap.com. As such, we’ve removed links to…
Discover how Bazaarvoice migrated millions of UGC records from RDS MySQL to AWS Aurora – at scale and with minimal user impact. Learn about the technical challenges, strategies, and outcomes that enabled this ambitious transformation in reliability, performance, and cost efficiency Bazaarvoice ingests and serves millions of user-generated content (UGC) items—reviews, ratings, questions, answers, and […]
Photo by Claudia Raya Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook1 wantonly surveils iPhones owners.2 Facebook's gross profit over time. Facebook and Apple mugged convincingly for the cameras as "App Tracking Transparency" rolled out, talking up the impact to Facebook's business. But San Mateo's profits tell a very…
The Elevation API can be used to return the height above sea-level for any given location, or batch of locations
23 Aug 2025
My life is not a math Olympiad
In a fast-growing company software engineering feels like spinning plates. Nothing ever stays fixed.
22 Aug 2025
AI has been hotly debated as a make-or-break for businesses. Can AI be used for good? Explore how AI chat moderation makes the case for better user experiences and better business with PubNub.
Discover how a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, helped OpenAI and Retro Bio engineer more effective proteins for stem cell therapy and longevity research.
21 Aug 2025
Learn how .NET 10 transforms dotnet test with native Microsoft.Testing.Platform integration, delivering better performance and enhanced diagnostics. The post Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new dotnet test appeared first on .NET Blog.
The Evolution of Craft: How I Embraced AI in Software Development One Sunday morning after a church service I was enjoying a cup of tea, cake and warm conversations with fellow parishioners. One of the conversations with a particular individual shifted to work and I learned that he works in the energy sector. More specifically, he is an engineering manager…
Paweł Chrząszcz presents MongooseIM 6.4 with unified handling, TLS 1.3, and FAST authentication. The post MongooseIM 6.4: Simplified and Unified appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Discover how Blue J is transforming tax research with AI-powered tools built on GPT-4.1. By combining domain expertise with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Blue J delivers fast, accurate, and fully-cited tax answers—trusted by professionals across the US, Canada, and the UK.
20 Aug 2025
HTTP status codes are essential tools for diagnosing issues between clients and servers. One such lesser-known, yet necessary status code ... Read More The post HTTP 308 Error – What It Is and How to Fix It appeared first on RoseHosting.
Debugging doesn’t have to be a grind. With Copilot woven into Visual Studio, you get AI-powered breakpoints, insights, exception fixes, and performance summaries all right where you work. The post Copilot Diagnostics toolset for .NET In Visual Studio appeared first on .NET Blog.
Discover how MIXI, a leader in digital entertainment and lifestyle services in Japan, uses ChatGPT Enterprise to transform productivity, boost AI adoption across teams, and create a secure environment for innovation.
Content editing mode is here – one of the most requested features has arrived in Hostinger Horizons, your AI-powered partner for creating websites and web apps. Whether you’re fix… The post Hostinger Horizons: No-code speed meets content editing freedom appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Here are a couple of newsletters I subscribe to keep up-to-date on Node.js, JavaScript, front-end development, and testing. Smashing Magazine newsletter has high-quality front-end, CSS, and design articles WebTools weekly is a weekly round-up of apps, scripts, plugins, and other resources to help front-end and full-stack web developers solve problems and build great websites. JavaScript Weekly is a newsletter of…
I’ve been on the lookout for a scripting language which can be neatly embedded into Hare programs. Perhaps the obvious candidate is Lua – but I’m not particularly enthusiastic about it. When I was evaluating the landscape of tools which are “like Lua, but not Lua”, I found an interesting contender: Wren. I found that Wren punches far above its…
The satellite map of Prague has just been updated with brand-new aerial imagery from 2024, now available in stunning 5 cm/px resolution.
19 Aug 2025
An introduction to the new Results Table integrated into the output cell of Notebooks, powered by the VS Code extension called Data Wrangler. The post Announcing the Data Wrangler powered Notebook Results Table appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Run GPT-OSS locally with C# and Ollama to build fast, private, offline AI The post GPT-OSS – A C# Guide with Ollama appeared first on .NET Blog.
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). Tens of millions of TLS server certificates are issued each day to secure communications between browsers and websites. These certificates are the cornerstones of ubiquitous […] The post CRLite: Fast,…
Quick question: How many numbers are there from 5 to 18, including both ends? Your first instinct might be to subtract: 18 - 5 = 13 Feels right. But it’s wrong. It’s a small thing, and kind of basic, but this mistake got me more times than I’d like to admit. Eventually I learned how to count ranges properly. :)…
Inspired by John Gruber mentioning on the Cortex podcast that he has a shortcut that saves links to a note in Tot, I thought I'd do something similar for saving to a note in Apple Notes. I want to store as a bullet item containing the name of the page, the link and the date. Something like this: (Funny that…
It’s that time of the year again! The vibrant city of Portland will host the final flagship WordPress event of the year from August 26th to 29th. As always, this event of… The post Meet Hostinger at WordCamp US 2025 appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Let's be honest: Half the APIs you write are for a specific purpose in a specific component on a specific page. Re-usable in theory but you've never tried. That's where Server Components come in ... but what if your server isn't JavaScript?
18 Aug 2025
How to make your customers happy and your engineers even happier It’s common for monitoring and alerting solutions on production services to be quite chatty, sometimes producing hundreds of notifications per day. There’s a scene in the classic film The Matrix where one of the characters (Cypher) is looking at a screen with green unintelligible code. He’s asked: “Do you…