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We’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to the Atlassian distributed version control system (DVCS) family – Sourcetree for Windows. Sourcetree is a free Git desktop client for developers on Windows. Say goodbye to the command line and use the full capabilities of Git through Sourcetree’s beautifully simple…
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
The latest around all things personal finance. Staying informed about your money doesn't have to be difficult.
Understand the building blocks of the Model Context Protocol - tools, resources, prompts, transports, sampling, and roots - and how they fit together.
Many developers use Docker the old-fashioned way -- a docker build and a docker run. Some non-obvious ways to use Docker.
Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.
In this blog post, we will delve into the major enhancements introduced in Ruby 3.3’s IRB, as well as what’s currently planned for the next year.
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
Vagrant 1.5 is now available! This is a new major release that adds some incredible new features to Vagrant. We've also obsessed over stability, so we expect this to be the most stable release, as well. We're also announcing Vagrant Cloud, a place for sharing, discovering, and creating Vagrant environments.
I was a Python developer for some time and one great joy of Python is that you have an expressive language that you can use for your serious apps as well as for your hacky little one-off script or bespoke pieces of automation. By expressive I mean that typing very little can give you a lot of progress towards your…
Update March 26, 2018 : The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or downlo...
Group for Apps and Services on Exascale Research Infrastructure is a research, development, and teaching unit at FIDIT + MedRi.
The life of an SSD should be more predictable than a hard disk. All you need is its TBW, and the total amount of data written to it so far.
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An introduction to Obsidian. Why you should use it, how to keep it simple, and how you can use it.
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…
I’ve been fascinated with local LLMs for a couple of years now. The better open weight models, including some that inference on regular, higher-end consumer hardware at tolerable speeds, are now reliable enough to handle simpler programming tasks. This requires a coding harness, but so far this year I’ve been…
The web-scraping arm race continues
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Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine and your desire for…
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We're excited to announce an enhancement to Gemini CLI that makes your workflow more powerful a...
Most computer applications can be configured to behave a cer
