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LM Studio 0.4
Server deployment, parallel requests with continuous batching, new REST API endpoint, and refreshed application UI
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Ten apps is all I need
Nokia’s new N9 phone based on MeeGo looks wonderful and according to Engadget, it’s a delight to use as well. But supposedly it’s dead on arrival because it’s not going to have a massive platform. Excuse my french, but fuck the platform. For all the 200,000 apps in Apple&…
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I made my phone slow on purpose
I bought a brand new iPhone and immediately made it slow on purpose.
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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Sublime Text 2 is available now as a public alpha, for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type …
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Sublime Text 2: Beta
Since the first public Alpha at the end of January, there have been 12 new releases, and many more dev builds. On average, that's a new version every two weeks for the past five months. During this time, Sublime Text 2 has made great strides in functionality, and a correspondingly large increase in users. Sublime Text…
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The Dropbox API
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Visual Studio '11' Announced
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are
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Support for U2F security keys
You can now use U2F-compatible security keys as a second factor for your 1Password account.
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Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability and its role in the transformation of spreadsheet formulas.
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Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
Does your package.json file have a large scripts section? If you have more than a handful of extremely simple npm scripts, try Makefiles.
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How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox
Compiler warnings are mostly good: they identify real problems, and when false positives do occur they are usually easy to work around. However, if they’re not fatal, they tend to be ignored and build up. (See bug 187528 for an idea!)
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Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App
Today we released Whisk 2.0: a lightweight web page editor with a live preview that updates as you type. The name may be new, but the mac app’s origins are in shareware called HyperEdit that I started while in college over 16 years ago. It is hard to believe I’ve worked on an app old eno
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Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, rolling out on Pro, Max, and Ultra plans. Hand over the task and Claude does the work. You keep the final say.
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Vite+ Beta
Vite+ Beta brings the tools needed to create, develop, check, test, and maintain modern web projects into one fast and consistent workflow.
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Homebrew 1.2.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.2.0. The most significant change since 1.1.0 is that most Homebrew taps (package repositories) in the Homebrew GitHub organisation have been deprecated and the currently buildable software moved into Homebrew/homebrew-core. This will improve the quality and availability of all…
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Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot
Discover the tools used in the Mr Robot television show to break into target computers. Then download, play and build your security knowledge.
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit
GIMP 2.99.2 marks the first step towards GIMP 3 based on GTK3.
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Why are we still using Markdown?
Burak Güngörs lab where he does some stuff
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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event subscriptions for repository changes.
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When Bash scripts bite
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from using shell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader to...