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The thing about Romeo and Juliet is that it is a true story. It isn't literally true, but it is literary true. We see the same motif repeated throughout all cultures and all times. Caroline Lea (writing as Caroline Finch) asks an important question - what if every pair of star-cross'd lovers were reincarnations of the original Verona duo? The essence of tragedy is that the end is unavoidable.…

When a CI/CD pipeline fails, its dashboard can usually show you what went wrong. Pipeline observability tools should help you understand why, whether the cause is a flaky test, an overloaded build agent, or a problem elsewhere in the delivery process. This becomes harder as pipelines grow more complex. A pipeline touches a lot of […]

Two things are true about Python: It’s the most popular programming language in the world, and it’s the most common companion language for Go developers. How do we know that? From the Developer Ecosystem 2026 survey by JetBrains. But we also know a lot more about the developers who use these two languages – both […]

Two things are true about Python: It’s the most popular programming language in the world, and it’s the most common companion language for Go developers. How do we know that? From the Developer Ecosystem 2026 survey by JetBrains. But we also know a lot more about the developers who use these two languages – both […]

Looking for new ways to challenge your programming skills, explore AI, or get better at solving math problems? This school year, JetBrains is bringing even more opportunities to young people interested in technology. From free online clubs and coding competitions across Europe to intensive programming camps, there’s plenty to get involved in. Whether you want […]

Ambition and words shine abundantly in The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form . (Thanks to Janet McConnaughey for bringing it to our attention.). The dictionary’s proprietors say: “Our primary goal in compiling this dictionary is to write at least one limerick for each meaning of each and every word in the English language. Our […]

Release: web-edit 0.1a1 Includes performance optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5 after I fed it this Python 3.15 profiling report generated by GPT-6 Astra. Tags: profiling, projects

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! This one I am writing from beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in sunny California's Bay Area, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As I sit here, I'm enjoying a cup of coffee and bemusedly enjoying the amazing content in this week's roundup. We've got a ton of stuff to dive into, so let's do it! Have you seen the new features in Jobrunr 9? You can easily see which step failed, find the job behind a slowdown, stop a job...

Drama 3 from Fish Audio is now available on AI Gateway, and 80% off for 30 days (through Nov 12). The text-to-speech model is currently in preview and lets you direct voice performances with natural-language instructions in your script, making it useful for voiceovers, character dialogue, and audio storytelling. Describe the emotion and pacing in square brackets, add sounds and pauses where they belong, or wrap selected words in tags such as <whisper> and <emphasis> to change their delivery....

MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash from Microsoft are now available on AI Gateway. Generate images from text or edit existing images through the AI SDK or the AI CLI, with one API key and no provider account. Both models support photorealistic imagery, text rendering, and targeted edits to products, portraits, and layouts. You can provide up to five reference images to guide edits or combine subjects, with output sizes up to 1536 × 1536. MAI-Image-2.6 (microsoft/mai-image-2.6) for final...

Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster on Vercel, reducing the time spent preparing your project's files before a build. During rollout on build machines with more than two vCPUs: The average time to get project files ready fell by 20%. For LFS-enabled projects, the average time to get project files ready fell by 54%, saving approximately 13 seconds per deployment on this step. The 90th-percentile time to get project files ready fell by 22%. This means 90% of deployments...

Gemini 4 Argon from Google is now available on AI Gateway. Gemini 4 Argon is built for coding, agentic work, and complex reasoning. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input, and supports tool calling. On coding tasks, Gemini 4 Argon builds features, fixes bugs, and researches unfamiliar codebases, carrying longer tasks through multiple steps. The model also reads dense diagrams, spreadsheets, layout-heavy documents, and video, which suits tasks like a...

Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2 Meta AI release Muse Wonder (and Muse Wonder Full), their new "most capable models". These look like they may be Meta's first Fable class models - Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder (Max) as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol. I updated my llm-meta-ai plugin for the new model. Here are pelicans for Muse Wonder for the six reasoning levels: minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max. This is the max one: For comparison, here are pelicans for Muse 1.3 (released September 2nd)...

Python 3.15 is here! Here's the essential What's new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to Python 3.10 and start embracing features from Python 3.11. First, some highlights from Python 3.15. Explicit lazy imports I'm most excited about Explicit lazy imports from PEP 810. These let you import modules like so: lazy import json...

The Publishing Maintenance Working Group at W3C has been quietly working on yet another update for the EPUB3 standard, and we're excited to share what we have been up to. Our goal is to not only maintain the EPUB standard, but do our best to keep it in line with the needs of industry, and this update does exactly that. Your existing books do not need to change, if they conform to previous EPUB versions, they will conform to EPUB 3.4. Content you create today will automatically conform as well.

Research: Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps I put the new Python 3.15 profiler through its paces by having GPT-6 Astra Extra High in Codex run it against my new web-edit app: I need a Python 3.15 flame graph and heatmap demo of the "web-edit" app from PyPI - research first then make me those demos Here's the resulting example flame graph and heatmap. Tags: profiling, python, codex

CVE-2026-105445: Docker Hub account conversion could re-assign personal access tokens to a new owner. Read what happened, who was affected, and the fix.