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My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because regular people just couldn't do it! No, they needed us. They would give us a problem and we would...

Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it. That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a year ago I didn’t have any NixOS servers. For the past few years, my RSS feeds have lived locally on my phone only. There was a good idea behind that, but it never quite worked in practice. For one, many things are easier to read on a larger screen. But it was also brittle to trust a phone app...

We are updating the Terms of Service for Hobby and Pro customers, effective October 19, 2026. The updates clarify some existing Vercel practices, expand terms on topics such as managed accounts and credits, and reflect applicable legal requirements, including certain cancellation and service-change rights for eligible consumers in the UK and EU. Credits and billing A new section sets out how credits work: plan-included credits expire at the end of the subscription term and purchased credits...

Apple and WebKit have shipped protections against web tracking for a long time.

Developers are familiar with running coding agents locally through harnesses like Pi, Claude Code, and others. They are reliable daily drivers for generating code, but keeping agents running around the clock requires your computer to be on and awake, which led to the laptop lid memes and Mac mini demand spike. Running harnesses in the cloud Harness workloads are moving to the cloud. Individual developers are deploying always-on coding agent workflows, projects like OpenWork and HanaAgent use...

For the last three years, we’ve been measuring developer sentiment and attitudes toward the role of AI across the software development lifecycle via our Developer Ecosystem surveys and AI Pulse surveys. The leap happening this year is striking. You can feel it in the air – especially in JetBrains Air – and see it in […]

Pele, Obsidian's new Mermaid graph renderer, has no DOM dependency and no runtime dependencies, which means it runs on GraalJS on a stock JDK, as well as being a very nice drop-in replacement for client-side Mermaid.

A new feature is available in W3C's mailing list archives, aiming to make it easier to read and navigate message threads.

Every session from October 7 is now on YouTube. .NET Day Online 2026 took place on October 7. Thanks to everyone who watched the livestream and asked questions in the chat! If you missed a session, or want to watch one again, all of them are now online. Watch the full playlist Here’s a quick […]

Dear Commodore 64 Enthusiast, I hope you’re well. 🙂 Here’s something to brighten your day: a complimentary PDF copy of FREEZE64 Issue 88, available to download HERE. This free digital edition was originally released as a printed magazine in September … Continue reading →

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest from the Spring ecosystem. We’re back from Dev2Next with a recap. Dan shows off two things he built last week. One is Kiln, a warm new theme for IntelliJ. The other is a set of demos for the JSON API coming to JDK 28. Then we dig into a busy week of model releases. Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA fit a 74B model into 24GB, and DeepSeek shipped a faster V4.1 Flash. Local inference is getting real, but RAM and VRAM prices...

Mercury 3 from Inception is now available on AI Gateway with 50% off launch pricing. Inception reports strong results across a range of benchmarks, with generation speeds above 1,000 tokens per second. Mercury 3 uses diffusion to generate text through parallel refinement. It brings improved reasoning to latency-sensitive workloads such as browser agents, real-time search, interactive education, and customer support. A 1M-token context window gives those applications room for long documents...

MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax is now available on AI Gateway for free, until Oct 20. MiniMax M3.1 Flash is an open-weight multimodal model for coding and agentic work, with a 1M-token context window for long documents and multi-step agent sessions. Compared with earlier MiniMax models, M3.1 Flash improves on complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. On the agent side, that covers multi-step business processes and computer use that carries a task from one application to the next....

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed. Tags: datasette, llm

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have been fed to it. The new release now updates the simulated token usage counts to take tool calls, system prompts, and reasoning tokens into account. Example usage: uvx --with llm-echo llm -m echo 'hi there' -o thinking 1 --usage Outputs: First I consider the...

The day after receiving their Ig Nobel Prizes in a gala ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on September 3, 2026, many of the new winners gathered to ask each other questions about their work, and to answer questions from an audience. This video documents that event.

We tried, and it builds. We compiled the decision-making part of a Maven-style build tool into a fixed weight matrix and used it to build a real Java library. The output matches Apache Maven's byte for byte. A clean build with tests took 1.49× as long as the same logic written in Python (95% interval […]

Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany: FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit SUNDAY, November 8, 2026: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to the Science Week […]

Let's get this out of the way first - this is a terrible idea! I want my two-factor authentication codes to be easily accessible to me, so I've built a watch app which will display them. That's really convenient for me - but makes for a terrible security posture. Anyone who steals my watch will be able to see my one-time code. If they're clever, they can decompile the app and find the secret…

Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline <script> element that replaces itself when the page loads: The year is <script> document.currentScript.replaceWith( new Date().getFullYear())</script> If you define a shortcut function like this: $=(...n)=>document.currentScript.replaceWith(...n) You get a tiny template language: The year is <script>$(new...