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This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and shipped Swamp 900...
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After 5 years and $5M building Wasp, we're replacing our custom config language with TypeScript. Here's why we thought a new language was a good idea, what we learned, and why TypeScript won.
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The folks behind the Lua programming language maintain a page detailing the release dates of all released versions of the language. My favourite thing about that page is that right at the top there is a graphical timeline, with years marked below the line...
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20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build that steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials XDA
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Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure...
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TIOBE Index for May 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages TechRepublic
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Nearly 3 years ago, before coding agents, I wrote a bytecode VM and garbage collector in Zig and unsafe Rust, and felt that the human ergonomics of writing unsafe code was in Zig’s favor.
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Recently, I decided to take my long standing, perfectly good GNU Emacs lsp-mode setup and completely replace it with Eglot, the now built in GNU Emacs LSP solution. At one level I didn't have any particularly strong specific reason to switch; I started by...
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Tom likes making games. He has worked professionally as a game developer, but he also likes to make games in his free time, as a hobby. He makes these hobby games in a “from scratch” kind of way. This means that he just has a main procedure and imports some...
Google News Programming Languages
AI in Software Development: New Security Risks to Watch Pepelac News