Update: In several recent posts, I've attempted to address how the structure of standards bodies and their adjacent incubation venues accelerates or suppresses the potential of the web as a platform. The pace of progress matters because platforms are competitions, and actors that prevent expansions of basic capabilities risk consigning the web to the dustbin. Inside that framework, there is…
23 Sept 2025
When you see a `useEffect` that updates a `useState` and returns a value, you might be looking for a `useSyncExternalStore`. This is my current vendetta.
Top five data modernization strategies for business success
22 Sept 2025
Python has become one of the world’s most popular programming languages. It is a programming language that is quite easy ... Read More The post How to Install Python on AlmaLinux 10 appeared first on RoseHosting.
In this Executive Function series from OpenAI, discover how CNA is transforming its newsroom with AI. Editor-in-Chief Walter Fernandez shares insights on AI adoption, culture, and the future of journalism.
Announcing Trusted Publishing on NuGet.org - a safer way to publish packages using short-lived tokens instead of long-lived API keys The post New Trusted Publishing enhances security on NuGet.org appeared first on .NET Blog.
SchoolAI uses GPT-4.1, image generation, and TTS to power safe, teacher-guided AI tools for over 1 million classrooms, improving engagement, oversight, and personalized learning.
OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems
OpenAI EngineeringOpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.
I have shown how to use Copilot instructions file to generate better end-to-end Cypress tests. In this blog post I will show a specific trick I use to make my test writing a lot more precise and much faster. When we are writing end-to-end tests, we constantly need to look up the best test selectors to use to find elements…
We've all been in meetings where no one really knows why they're there or what's about to happen. Always attach an agenda doc or at least a clear description when you schedule a meeting.
Min-p sampling for LLMs
Becoming ISO-native: Navigating the end of coexistence in the ISO 20022 migration journey
Thoughtworks InsightsBecoming ISO-native: Navigating the end of coexistence in the ISO 20022 migration journey
21 Sept 2025
Photo by Photo by Artan Sadiku Commentary about browsers and the features they support is sometimes pejorative towards pre-standardisation features. Given Apple's constriction of Mozilla's revenue stream and its own strategic under-funding of WebKit, this usually takes the form "Chromium just ships whatever it wants." This is true, of course, but not in the way commenters intend; and not only…
19 Sept 2025
Curious how popular your website or web app is? Now you can see where your visitors come from – right inside Hostinger Horizons. With built-in analytics, your AI-powered design… The post Track the action on your project right inside Hostinger Horizons appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Fresh, high-quality aerial imagery of Estonia is now available in the MapTiler satellite map.
18 Sept 2025
The new Docker manager provides a powerful, web-based solution for managing Docker projects on your VPS. This intuitive tool, included free of charge with all VPS hosting plans th… The post Docker manager: Launch any app on your VPS in a couple of clicks appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
In today’s AI hype you cannot miss the term “RAG,” which stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. In plain English, it stands for customizing large language model reasoning with your own context and knowledge. I searched a lot of resources and AI-generated content for this fairly simple technique to be explained well. I’m still looking for […] The post RAG Demystified:…
I follow a simple flow of questions that helps me stay focused, improve consistently, and make incremental impact at workplace. I'm never running around like a headless chicken. Here are the questions I ask myself, and answer honestly, like really true to its core
We had a chat about side projects, OpenSource, and making money out of it — in Portuguese.
Learn how we turned hot-path optimizations into a system for continuous, AI-assisted performance improvements and saved thousands of cores in the process.
Technology's role in financial inclusion: A deeper look
17 Sept 2025
In this tutorial, we explain what a 424 error code is and how to resolve it. The HTTP 424 status ... Read More The post 424 Error Code: What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on RoseHosting.
Unlocking the Power of GitHub Copilot for .NET Developers with Instruction Files and Prompt Files The post Prompt Files and Instructions Files Explained appeared first on .NET Blog.
Ever found yourself in the endless loop of tweaking a prompt, running your code, and waiting to see if you finally got the output you wanted? That slow, frustrating feedback cycle is a common headache for AI developers. What if you could speed that up and get back to what you do best? Let’s focus on building amazing applications. We're…
In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been…
Apollo Research and OpenAI developed evaluations for hidden misalignment (“scheming”) and found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests across frontier models. The team shared concrete examples and stress tests of an early method to reduce scheming.
16 Sept 2025
.NET STS releases will be supported for 24 months The post .NET STS releases supported for 24 months appeared first on .NET Blog.
I use bash's history all the time, via ctrl+r and also with the up and down keys; it's wonderful. Sometimes, I want to get back to the end of my history and I recently discovered that there's a shortcut for this: meta+>. It doesn't matter where you are in your history, pressing meta+> jumps you to the end and you…
Learn how OpenAI is building age prediction and parental controls in ChatGPT to create safer, age-appropriate experiences for teens while supporting families with new tools.
Explore OpenAI’s approach to balancing teen safety, freedom, and privacy in AI use.
If your web application stores data locally in the localStorage object, you can easily set / verify the data from your Cypress end-to-end tests. For example: cypress/e2e/players.cy.js 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33…
Deep thinking is the super power of wit
15 Sept 2025
The online betting landscape has evolved far beyond its origins as a digital replica of the traditional sportsbook.
The September 2025 release includes pipenv support in the Python Environment Extension, a new experimental hover feature with GitHub Copilot and Pylance, and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2025 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Sudo is a command that allows a regular system user to run commands that only the superuser (root) can. We ... Read More The post How to Add User to Sudoers in Debian 13 appeared first on RoseHosting.
Learn how Application Insights Code Optimizations helps .NET developers identify performance bottlenecks and get AI-powered recommendations through GitHub Copilot integration. The post Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps appeared first on .NET Blog.
Today, we’re announcing some changes that will improve the security of accessing Git data over SSH. What’s changing? We’re adding a new post-quantum secure SSH key exchange algorithm, known alternately as sntrup761x25519-sha512 and sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com, to our SSH endpoints for accessing Git data. This only affects SSH access and doesn’t impact HTTPS access at all. It also does not affect GitHub…
Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone.
New research from the largest study of ChatGPT use shows how the tool creates economic value through both personal and professional use. Adoption is broadening beyond early users, closing gaps and making AI a part of everyday life.
This addendum to the GPT-5 system card shares a new model: GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding in Codex. GPT-5-Codex adjusts its thinking effort more dynamically based on task complexity, responding quickly to simple conversational queries or small tasks, while independently working for longer on more complex tasks.
At SoundCloud, we’re always looking for ways to improve the listening experience for our creators, partners, and listeners. One of the…
The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches
13 Sept 2025
Frequent job switches can be great for short-term financial gains. I believed that early in my career as well, but here’s what I’ve learnt over the years.
12 Sept 2025
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OpenAI shares progress on the partnership with the US CAISI and UK AISI to strengthen AI safety and security.
At Deliveroo, we’re always refining how we scale - especially when it comes to managing compute costs in the cloud. After optimising our Amazon ECS workloads with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, we saw an opportunity to push further using EC2 Spot Instances, which offer up to 90% savings compared to On-Demand prices. But Spot comes with challenges: Their availability…
Happy National Video Games Day! We’re hearing from Veronica, Scott, Tyler, and Anni about which games would go in their hypothetical video games museum. Nothing better than honoring a beloved game by putting it behind a glass case!
11 Sept 2025
An honest, practical look at "vibe coding": building software with AI assistants like Cursor and Claude Code. You'll learn what works, what doesn’t, and how MCP servers unlock production-ready workflows. Ideal for teams exploring AI pair programming with a focus on speed, safety, and engineering judgment.
OpenAI reaffirms its nonprofit leadership with a new structure granting equity in its PBC, enabling over $100B in resources to advance safe, beneficial AI for humanity.
OpenAI and Microsoft sign a new MOU, reinforcing their partnership and shared commitment to AI safety and innovation.
You already know Kodee as the friendly AI assistant that helps with quick answers and support. Now, Kodee has taken a big leap forward – it doesn’t just guide you anymore, it does… The post Kodee is now your virtual Hostinger admin that turns chat into action appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
From transactional services to transformational ecosystems: The Thoughtworks approach
Thoughtworks InsightsFrom transactional services to transformational ecosystems: The Thoughtworks approach
Learn how to create a dynamically re-anchored pointer element.
10 Sept 2025
Joanna Maciejewska I'm sure you've seen this quote from Joanna Maciejewska all over social media; I'd bet some money that there are shops already selling t-shirts and mugs with it. Despite seeing it dozens of times, I never thought about it in the context of my day-to-day as a programmer! I, like the quote's author, was more focused on AI…
In this tutorial, we will cover improving database performance on a Linux VPS. Under the database, performance refers to how ... Read More The post Improving Database Performance on a Linux VPS appeared first on RoseHosting.
Salesforce customers often leverage third-party or custom services to extend their orgs, and they do so with two common options: Connected Apps and External Services. Connected Apps let third-party vendors or custom code call Salesforce APIs using long-lived OAuth tokens, while External Services call vendor APIs through declarative configurations with vendor-managed hosting, scaling, and endpoint security. While both approaches deliver…
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10. The post Performance Improvements in .NET 10 appeared first on .NET Blog.
I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me with the brilliance of their inventors. But there’s also another class of vulnerabilities: these are the ones that can’t possibly exist in important production software, … Continue reading Kerberoasting →
Ephemeral testing environments: Sometimes, you just need to kill your darlings
Thoughtworks InsightsEphemeral testing environments: Sometimes, you just need to kill your darlings
Bridging the SRE gap: Towards autonomous observability and RCA
9 Sept 2025
.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more! The post Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 appeared first on .NET Blog.
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2025. The post .NET and .NET Framework September 2025 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
Discover how SafetyKit leverages OpenAI GPT-5 to enhance content moderation, enforce compliance, and outpace legacy safety systems with greater accuracy .
Following on from my earlier exploration of JWKS (RFC7517), I found myself needing to convert the JWKS into PEM format. This time I turned to Python with my preference of using uv with inline script metadata and created jwks-to-pem.py. The really nice thing about inline script metadata is that we can use the cryptography package to do all the hard…
With open banking, A2A payments are now faster and more secure than ever before.
Turn your domain name into a monetizable storefront that sells and grows your brand. With the new link-in-bio website option in Hostinger Website Builder, it’s just a few clicks a… The post Turn followers into customers with a link-in-bio website appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Practical takeaways for faster prototyping, customer demos, and vendor exploration
In the blog post Test Tag Suggestions Using AI I described a system to pick a testing tag based on a pull request's title and body text. In this blog post, I will make it useful. Whenever a user opens a GitHub issue and labels it a "bug", an automated workflow will pick an appropriate testing tag (or several) and…
Beyond income there's 2 reasons to take any specific job: Invest in yourself or invest in the company. Both is best.
Can AI help modernize legacy automotive C++ code?
8 Sept 2025
When Production Goes Sideways Imagine this: It’s 2 AM, your phone buzzes with an alert, and your dashboards are screaming. Production is down. Sound familiar? An automated health check has failed, and your internal dashboards are showing a spike in errors. You’ve just pushed a new release that included a critical database schema change, and […] The post Triage and…
Devices or machines connected to your router typically have a dynamic IP address. The DHCP server assigns a dynamic IP ... Read More The post How to Configure a Static IP Address on Debian 13 appeared first on RoseHosting.
Watch our short webinar with Clay to find out how to simplify the entire payments lifecycle, from receiving payments to sending.
Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025, for unrestricted grants that help communities shape AI for the public good.
Phuong Van reflects on her first ElixirConf US, highlighting inspiring talks on AI, community, and engineering. The post ElixirConf US 2025: Highlights from My First ElixirConf appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Heartbeats: How Synthetic Traffic Keeps Us Running Let me take you on a journey of how we came to use heartbeats in our application design. It’s a happy story of love and no broken hearts along the way. What are heartbeats? What my teams have called heartbeats are a form of synthetic traffic generated by the application itself. The deployed…
Yes, higher compensation means you won't have as many options to choose from, but fewer does not mean none. As long as you can demonstrate measurable impact, there will always be opportunities at every compensation level.
Proactive, predictive and AI-powered: Redefining Level 1 and 2 application support
Thoughtworks InsightsProactive, predictive and AI-powered: Redefining Level 1 and 2 application support
7 Sept 2025
Swift 6.2 makes it easier to interpolate strings with optional values. What’s The Problem? In this SwiftUI view I need to create a text string from an optional integer value: struct CounterView: View { let count: Int? var body: some View { Text("The count is \(count)") } } The compiler warns about the optional value: String interpolation produces a debug…
6 Sept 2025
Announcing the 2025 edition of the CSS Handbook with updated beginner-friendly content.
Announcing the 2025 edition of the Node.js Handbook with updated Node.js coverage.
Everything we interact with today is a "distributed system". From microservices to cloud-native applications, from databases to message queues. We are constantly building systems that span multiple machines. But there comes a fundamental challenge - how do we ensure that all independent nodes agree on shared state?
5 Sept 2025
Beginning at 06:00 UTC on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025, Heroku customers began experiencing a platform service disruption due to an unintended system update applied to our production infrastructure by our vendor. To compound the issue, the Heroku Status site was affected by the outage. Shortcomings in site design and API latency resulted in timeouts, and the Status site appeared as…
OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.
OpenAI and the Greek Government have launched “OpenAI for Greece” to bring ChatGPT Edu into secondary schools and support responsible AI learning. This partnership aims to boost AI literacy, fuel local start-ups, and drive national economic growth.
Database deadlocks are one of the most challenging concurrency issues encountered in production systems. Understanding why they occur and how databases handle them is important in building robust applications.
Tackling MCP security challenges with the MCP API delegation pattern
From black box to blueprint: How we performed a rapid assessment of a legacy system with CAST
Thoughtworks InsightsFrom black box to blueprint: How we performed a rapid assessment of a legacy system with CAST
4 Sept 2025
The AI revolution presents a critical challenge: moving from experimentation to production. This year, Heroku has evolved beyond a traditional PaaS to become an AI PaaS, a fully managed platform designed to solve this problem and accelerate the delivery of AI-powered apps. With new capabilities like AppLink, Managed Inference and Agents, and MCP on Heroku, Heroku now provides a fully…
OpenAI is launching a Jobs Platform and new Certifications to connect workers with jobs, training, and certifications. Learn how we’re expanding economic opportunity and making AI skills more accessible.
Artificial intelligence (AI) bots now scrape websites to train models and answer questions directly, often without sending traffic back to the original sources. Our new AI audit f… The post Your website, your rules: Track and control AI bots appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
As cyberattacks evolve to unprecedented levels of sophistication and speed, the time gap between breach detection and response has never been more critical. Traditional security approaches often operate reactively, identifying compromises only after damage has occurred. This delay grants attackers a tactical advantage, forcing security teams to focus on damage assessment and remediation rather than…
While we write code thinking about algorithms and data structures, the CPU is quietly making millions of decisions about what data to keep close and what to evict from its precious cache memory.
3 Sept 2025
Every day, shoppers from Etsy's community of nearly 90M buyers visit our marketplace to search for unique, handmade, and vintage items. But with over 100 million listings, how do we help each buyer find exactly what they're looking for? Traditional search and recommendation systems often fall short of capturing the nuanced interests that make each Etsy buyer unique, from specific…
In this tutorial, we will explain the 301 Moved Permanently redirect status code and provide guidance on how to resolve ... Read More The post 301 Error: What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on RoseHosting.
See how GitHub Copilot Coding Agent automates unit tests and ships features from a PRD in a real .NET sample, so you can focus on design and review. The post Let Copilot Coding Agent handle the busy work appeared first on .NET Blog.
Ask Copilot agent to write the full end-to-end test and it is likely to write nonsense. For example, let's test the "zero teams / zero players" message on my soccer web app. I can start a new test in the existing "Teams" spec file cypress/e2e/teams.cy.js 1 2 3 describe('Teams', () => { it.only('shows zero teams and zero players message', ()…
While strong consistency might seem like the obvious choice - given it keeps the data perfectly synchronized at all times - the reality is that eventual consistency has become the preferred approach for most large-scale distributed systems. But why so...