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One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, Fresh web pages send zero JavaScript to the client.
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I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3...
JFrog finds a new supply chain attack targeting python developers using the PyPI repository
Compare Elixir and Go for high concurrency solutions. Understand their differences in programming styles, concurrency models, and error handling. Learn more!
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How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.
Our latest image generation model is now available in the API via ‘gpt-image-1’—enabling developers and businesses to build professional-grade, customizable visuals directly into their own tools and platforms.
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.
We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects…
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Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
A blog by and for database architects.
Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro on March 26th, claiming to be the best in coding, reasoning and overall everything. But I mostly care about how the…
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
A randomized trial with 52 developers found AI assistance lowered comprehension scores, except when used for explanations rather than delegation.
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.
