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20 Apr

Drew Noakes 9 min read

The C# Dev Kit team replaced C++ Node.js addons with C# and Native AOT, removing a dependency on Python. This post walks through building a Node.js native addon entirely in C# using N-API, LibraryImport, and UnmanagedCallersOnly. The post Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT appeared first on .NET Blog.

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Jeff Atwood 2 min read

It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed

Pinterest Engineering 10 min read

Shanhai Liao | Senior Software Engineer, Content Acquisition and Media Platform; Di Ruan, | Senior Staff Software Engineer, Content Acquisition and Media Platform; Evan Li, | Senior Engineering Manager, Content Acquisition and Media Platform Introduction Accurate content understanding underpins Pinterest’s ability to drive distribution and engagement. This requires deep insight not just into the image itself, but also the outbound…

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Richard Kerris 3 min read

AI agents are transforming how work gets done across all industries, accelerating everything from content creation to decision-making. NVIDIA’s expanded strategic collaborations with Adobe and WPP are bringing agentic AI to the center of enterprise marketing operations across creative production and customer experience orchestration. As demand for personalized customer experiences surges, brands require intelligent systems […]

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Anjali Munasinghe 3 min read

My client team recently updated its code review policy: an approval from an AI tool is now all that’s needed to merge. In this post, I’ll reflect on this change and what it means for the way our team works together. My Personal Relationship with Code Review Reviewing PRs is one of my very favorite […] The post Here’s What…

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SitePoint Team 1 min read

Comprehensive TCO analysis comparing Llama 3, Mistral 8x7B, and other open-source models against Claude and GPT-4. Includes compute costs, licensing, deployment infrastructure, and performance benchmarks. Helps teams make data-driven decisions on their LLM strategy for 2026. Open-Source vs Commercial LLMs: The Complete Guide (2026) on SitePoint.

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SitePoint Team 1 min read

Step-by-step guide to deploying DeepSeek R1 on your local machine or private servers. Covers hardware requirements, environment setup, Docker containerization, inference optimization, and integration with Python apps. Perfect for developers wanting privacy-first reasoning model access. Running DeepSeek R1 Locally: Your Complete Setup Guide (2026) on SitePoint.

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SitePoint Team 1 min read

Advanced guide to deploying Claude Code as a fully autonomous agent for software engineering tasks. Covers agent scaffolding, multi-turn reasoning loops, error recovery, and integration with existing CI/CD pipelines. Includes real-world examples of agents handling full feature development cycles. Claude Code as an Autonomous Agent: Advanced Workflows (2026) on SitePoint.

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SitePoint Team 1 min read

DeepSeek R1 is the reasoning model that's revolutionizing how developers approach coding. This comprehensive guide covers understanding the R1 architecture, implementing it in production workloads, optimizing for performance, and integrating with existing tools. DeepSeek R1 Complete Developer Guide (2026) on SitePoint.

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James McKenna 6 min read

Manufacturing is at an inflection point. Across every major industrial economy, the pressure to do more with less — due to faster design cycles, leaner operations and strain on skilled labor pools — is accelerating the shift to AI-driven production. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how fast and at what […]

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Explore why running containers in Virtual Machines (VMs) with a platform engineering strategy is essential for modern cloud environments. Learn how VMs deliver superior security, isolation, and resource management compared to bare metal, while achieving performance parity.

Stephen Blum 1 min read

A student engineering team led by Eric Yoon won the EV Challenge with a $10K DIY electric car, beating a competitor with hundreds of thousands in funding by using an uncopyable, real-time PubNub telemetry system to optimize strategy and exploit hidden battery performance advantages.

19 Apr

Jason Porritt 6 min read

When I joined Atomic Object nearly 16 years ago, I was drawn in by many factors: people who were generous with their time, interesting development tools and clients, personal connections, and wanting to work with the smartest people I could find. Threaded through all of that was a deep curiosity that resonated with me. The […] The post The Increasing…

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15 years ago, on December 11th, 2010, at the bold age of 17, I wrote my first blog post on the wonders of the Windows Phone 7 on Blogspot. I started blogging as a kid at the behest of a family friend at Microsoft, who promised she’d make sure I would become the youngest Microsoft MVP if I started blogging.…

Josh Sherman 3 min read

I'm in the tin foil hat era and I've been doing a ton of breaking up recently. I'm getting fatigued on AI features I don't need let alone use. I'm even more sick of the fact that these features are driving up prices of certain services. More than anything, I'm tired of having to think about which EULA update I…

18 Apr

jgamblin 2 min read

I spend a significant amount of my time thinking about EPSS, CVSS, and the inherent gaps in how we prioritize vulnerabilities. We all know the drill: a 9.8 CRITICAL that remains unexploited shouldn’t jump the line ahead of a 7.5 HIGH that is being actively used in the wild. Closing that gap between theoretical severity and actual exploitability is why…

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Linda Imirzian 6 min read

At Atomic Object, we build great software, and we partner with our clients to help them figure out what the right thing to be building is in the first place. As software consultants, we show up as strategic thought partners who bring perspective on direction, tradeoffs, and timing. Getting that right requires a shared understanding […] The post There’s More…

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Everybody has heard of the Dreadnought Factories deep inside the country from where impossible devices...

17 Apr

Matthew Green 9 min read

This is the second in a series of posts about anonymous credentials. You can find the first part here. In the previous post, we introduced the notion of anonymous credentials as a technique that allows users to authenticate to a website without sacrificing their privacy. As a quick reminder, an anonymous credential system consists of … Continue reading Anonymous credentials:…

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Netflix Technology Blog 15 min read

By: Brett Axler , Casper Choffat , and Alo Lowry In the three years since our first Live show, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage , we have witnessed an incredible expansion of our live content slate and the live operations that support it. From modest beginnings of streaming just one show per month, we are now capable of streaming over nine…

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Michael Marsiglia 2 min read

When ChatGPT went mainstream, the narrative was clear: anyone can build an app now. Software engineering, as we know it, is over. My Bias I’ll be honest about my bias. I run a software consultancy with about 100 software engineers. I have skin in this game. But from my front-row seat, what I’ve watched is […] The post Software Engineering…

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What are the current techniques being employed to improve the performance of LLM-based systems? How is the industry shifting from post-training towards context engineering and multi-agent orchestration? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, data scientist and Python Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains, returns to discuss the current AI coding landscape. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌…

SitePoint Team 1 min read

Simon Last (Notion co-founder) shared a method enabling AI coding agents to run continuously for 13 days—far exceeding typical agent limits of about an hour. Here's how to build resilient long-running coding agents that don't lose context or lose the plot. How to Run AI Coding Agents Continuously for Days Without Losing the Plot on SitePoint.

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Daniela Chan 14 min read

AI-assisted development has already won the adoption battle. Today, 84% of developers use or plan to use AI coding tools, major tech companies are generating 30–90% of new code wi… The post Vibe coding statistics: Key data, trends, and insights for 2026 appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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16 Apr

Srini Sekaran 5 min read

Last week, we launched Docker Sandboxes with a bold goal: to deliver the strongest agent isolation in the market. This post unpacks that claim, how microVMs enable it, and some of the architectural choices we made in this approach. The Problem With Every Other Approach Every sandboxing model asks you to give something up. We...

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We’re sharing insights into Meta’s Capacity Efficiency Program, where we’ve built an AI agent platform that helps automate finding and fixing performance issues throughout our infrastructure. By leveraging encoded domain expertise across a unified, standardized tool interface these agents help save power and free up engineers’ time away from addressing performance issues to innovating on [...] Read More... The post…

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Lawrence Gripper 7 min read

Did you know that, at GitHub, we host all of our own source code on github.com? We do this because we’re our own biggest customer—testing out changes internally before they go to users. However, there’s one downside: If github.com were ever to go down, we wouldn’t be able to access our own source code. This is what you’d call a…

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We’re sharing lessons learned from Meta’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration to help other organizations strengthen their resilience as industry transitions to post-quantum cryptography standards. We’re proposing the idea of PQC Migration Levels to help teams within organizations manage the complexity of PQC migration for their various use cases. By outlining Meta’s approach to this work [...] Read More... The post…

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Aphyr 6 min read

Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: New Jobs. Some readers are undoubtedly upset that I…

GeForce NOW Community 2 min read

Head straight for orbit with GeForce NOW — no space helmet required. PRAGMATA, Capcom’s long-awaited sci-fi action adventure, touches down on GeForce NOW the same day it launches worldwide. The futuristic journey through a cold lunar station in the near future can be streamed instantly from the cloud to almost any device, no console or […]

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Gary Turovsky 7 min read

Running and deploying with Kubernetes may sound excessive and intimidating, but it’s not nearly as hard as it once was. The immense popularity of Kubernetes over the past decade means tools can quickly set up and deploy a cluster in almost any environment. And what once was a technology platform requiring deep systems knowledge to […] The post K3s: A…

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Build Python games from command-line projects to 2D graphical games with turtle, Tkinter, Pygame, and Arcade. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

Criteo Tech 9 min read

Author: Fabian Höring Agentic systems powered by LLMs can be incredibly impressive in demos. With a few well-crafted prompts, they can demonstrate reasoning, calling tools, and solving complex tasks [1]. Demos are effective at showcasing what’s possible. Production environments, however, are where those capabilities are tested at scale and under real-world conditions. The same agent that performs perfectly on curated…

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Babbel 9 min read

There are many endangered languages in the world — languages spoken by a small group of people or even only one person. Here's what's being done to save them from the brink of extinction. The post What Are The Rarest and Least Spoken Languages In The World? appeared first on Babbel.

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Julien Portalier 6 min read

We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.0 with several new features and bug fixes. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions. Stats Section titled Stats This release includes 161 changes since 1.19.1 by 21 contributors. We thank all the contributors for all the effort put into improving the language!…

The Rust Release Team 2 min read

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.95.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.95.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page…

15 Apr

Palantir 9 min read

About this Series Frontend engineering at Palantir goes far beyond building standard web apps. Our engineers design interfaces for mission-critical decision-making, build operational applications that translate insight to action, and create systems that handle massive datasets — thinking not just about what the user needs, but what they need when the network is unreliable, the stakes are high, and the…

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David Ortinau 2 min read

.NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster taps on Android and iOS. The post Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps appeared first on .NET Blog.

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Pinterest Engineering 14 min read

Vaibhav Shankar; Staff Software Engineer | Raymond Lee; Staff Software Engineer | Chia-Wei Chen; Staff Software Engineer | Shunyao Li; Sr. Software Engineer | Yi Li; Staff Software Engineer | Ambud Sharma; Principal Engineer | Saurabh Vishwas Joshi; Principal Engineer | Charles-A. Francisco; Senior Engineer | Karthik Anantha Padmanabhan; Director, Engineering | David Westbrook; Sr. Manager, Engineering One day in…

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Shruti Koparkar 5 min read

Traditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primary workload, their primary output is intelligence manufactured in the form of tokens. This transformation demands a corresponding shift in how the economics of AI infrastructure, […]

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Celeste Aronow 9 min read

The Gap is Real If your accessibility process ends with a passing scan, your users with disabilities are likely encountering barriers you do not know about. Automated tools are useful. LLM-assisted auditing has raised the ceiling. Neither closes the gap between what a tool can verify and what a person actually experiences when navigating with a screen reader. The gap…

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Aphyr 7 min read

Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Work. As we deploy ML more broadly, there will…

Joel Pennington 4 min read

The NAB Show 2026 trade show, running April 18-22 in Las Vegas, is set to showcase a wave of new features and optimizations for top video editing applications. Bringing together over 60,000 content professionals from across the broadcast and media and entertainment industries, the event highlights how video editors, livestreamers and professional creators are exploring […]

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Mattie Behrens 6 min read

I have long been a fan of OpenBSD, over two and a half decades after I first started using it. It’s a complete operating system maintained with a strong and smart design ethos. It makes sense to me in a way that makes every other operating system feel frankly kind of cobbled together. Many folks […] The post A Webserver…

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Anjani Kumar 7 min read

The Race Against the Clock: Optimizing Supply Chain Capacity for Faster Deliveries — Part 1 (Capacity Management Series) In the hyper-competitive landscape of online retail, delivery speed is often the sole differentiator between a confirmed sale and an abandoned cart. For e-commerce giants, a sophisticated “ Promise Engine ” calculates the precise delivery date shown to a customer during checkout.…

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Bill Doerrfeld 6 min read

While some commentators in tech say that microservices architecture has seen its heyday, in reality, it’s still foundational to some massive distributed digital systems, from Netflix, to Amazon, SoundCloud, and beyond. But how exactly do you operationalize thousands of distributed microservices living in various environments? Successful microservices adoption tales often revolve around using service mesh, ...

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Rita Klubochkina 1 min read

Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Agent Experience, LLMs, Jamstack Most AI SEO advice is unproven. We tested what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity actually read on our own site. Six LLM visibility techniques that worked, eight that didn't, and the metrics to tell the difference. We recently signed a new client, and…

14 Apr

Aditya Tripathi 11 min read

We're coming up on a year since launching Docker Hardened Images (DHI) last May, and crossing a milestone earlier this month made me stop and reflect on what we've actually been building. Earlier this month, we crossed over 500k daily pulls of DHIs, and over 25k continuously patched OS level artifacts in our SLSA Build...

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