GitHub Copilot Goes GA — AI Pair Programming Gets Real23 June 2022·1044 words·5 minsAI AI Development GitHubGitHub Copilot exits technical preview and becomes generally available at $10/month, marking the first mainstream AI coding assistant.
Internet Explorer Is Finally Dead — Reflecting on 27 Years of Web History16 June 2022·945 words·5 minsDevelopment DevelopmentMicrosoft officially retired Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, ending a 27-year era that shaped — and sometimes hindered — web development.
TypeScript 4.7 Finally Tackles Node.js ES Modules — Was It Worth the Wait?9 June 2022·968 words·5 minsDevelopment Development Node.js TypeScriptTypeScript 4.7 ships with proper ES module support for Node.js, resolving one of the ecosystem’s most painful interoperability headaches.
Follina — The Zero-Day That Turns a Word Doc Into a Weapon2 June 2022·905 words·5 minsSecurity Cybersecurity DevelopmentCVE-2022-30190, dubbed Follina, exploits Microsoft’s diagnostic tool through Office documents — no macros required.
Broadcom's $61 Billion VMware Bet — What It Means for Cloud Infrastructure26 May 2022·772 words·4 minsInfrastructure Cloud DevOpsBroadcom’s proposed $61B acquisition of VMware could reshape the enterprise cloud and virtualization landscape for years to come.
.NET MAUI Goes GA — Microsoft's Cross-Platform Bet Materializes19 May 2022·1016 words·5 minsDevelopment Development.NET MAUI reaches general availability, replacing Xamarin.Forms as Microsoft’s unified cross-platform UI framework.
Google I/O 2022 — AI Gets Practical, and That's What Matters12 May 2022·1062 words·5 minsAI AI DevelopmentGoogle I/O 2022 showcases AI advances that are moving beyond demos into developer-accessible tools and practical applications.
Kubernetes 1.24 Drops Dockershim — The End of an Era5 May 2022·946 words·5 minsInfrastructure DevOps Cloud KubernetesKubernetes 1.24 finally removes Dockershim, completing the long-telegraphed divorce from Docker as a container runtime.
PyCon US 2022 — Python's Momentum Shows No Signs of Slowing28 April 2022·925 words·5 minsDevelopment Python Development Open SourcePyCon US 2022 kicks off in Salt Lake City with Python riding high as the world’s most popular programming language.
Heroku's Security Breach — A Wake-Up Call for Platform Trust21 April 2022·897 words·5 minsSecurity Cybersecurity CloudHeroku’s OAuth token breach exposes the fragile trust chain in platform-as-a-service dependencies and what it means for developers.
Python 3.11 Is Shaping Up to Be Seriously Fast14 April 2022·1118 words·6 minsDevelopment Python DevelopmentThe Python 3.11 alpha releases show 10-60% speedups across benchmarks, driven by the Faster CPython project — and this is just the beginning.
DALL-E 2 and the New Frontier of AI Image Generation7 April 2022·1060 words·5 minsAI AIOpenAI’s DALL-E 2 produces photorealistic images from text descriptions with stunning accuracy, signaling a paradigm shift in how we think about creative AI.