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The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
At Mozilla we know that developers are the cornerstone of the Web, that’s why we actively push standards and continue to build great tools to make it eas
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Understanding Awk
Learn the basics of Awk, a powerful text processing tool, in this informative article. Discover how to use Awk to manipulate and analyze data, calc...
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Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous…
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.
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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
Please note that after careful consideration, we have made the decision to end the Amazon Honeycode beta service, effective February 29, 2024. VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I […]
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Blur Tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
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Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
The Inkscape project has released a beta version of the upcoming and much-awaited Inkscape 1.0 on September 17th! After releasing two less visible alpha versions this year, in mid-January and mid-June, Inkscape is now ready for extensive testing and subsequent bug-fixing.
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Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
Posted by Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, Software Engineers, Google Research Europe(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)At Google, we c...
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Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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What Is Nix?
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon.
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Running costs for running a web app
Finally know if you’re on track—without spreadsheets, guesswork, or end-of-year surprises.
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Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and most people picking up their phone to text...
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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
Catch your best ideas before they slip through your fingers Do you ever have flashes of insight or an idea worth remembering? This happens to me 5 10 times e...
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Homebrew 1.1.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.1.0. We’ve had a great response to Homebrew 1.0.0 and been iterating on our work there. That 1.1.0 follows 1.0.9 is a happy coincidence due to breaking changes; in the future we may have e.g. a 1.1.10.
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Hurl 4.0.0
Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl , that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:
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Sublime Text 3 Beta
The first beta of Sublime Text 3 is now available to download for registered users. Some feature highlights are below, followed by our new pricing and upgrade policies, and system compatibility for Sublime Text 3.
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Sudo for Windows
Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a
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Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
They're super powerful.
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A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
Before they started using CountThings from Photos, counting pearls took almost 100 hours a year.
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By default, Signal doesn't recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...
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ITerm2 2.0
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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6 weeks of Claude Code
It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled…
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A Git story: Not so fun this time
Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun , but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, was also an accidental revolution. It’s now a standard tool for software engineers, but its origin story wasn’t so much fun this time, at least for Linus.
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You can now disable all AI features in Zed
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
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JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.
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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing applications. Challenges such as new project environment setup, team member collaboration, and the day-to-day task of keeping…