20 August 2020 · 880 words · 5 mins
TypeScript 4.0 is here with variadic tuple types, labeled tuples, and smarter inference. It’s a major version that earns its number.
13 August 2020 · 991 words · 5 mins
Epic Games just declared war on Apple’s App Store policies. The implications for the developer ecosystem extend far beyond gaming.
6 August 2020 · 817 words · 4 mins
Linux 5.8 lands with a massive changeset. Linus Torvalds himself says it’s one of the biggest releases of all time — here’s what developers should care about.
30 July 2020 · 903 words · 5 mins
OpenAI’s GPT-3 API is generating jaw-dropping demos across the developer community. Here’s what it means for the rest of us.
23 July 2020 · 1119 words · 6 mins
OpenAI is granting beta access to the GPT-3 API. After a week of experimentation, here’s what’s genuinely impressive and what’s overhyped.
2 July 2020 · 951 words · 5 mins
Redis 6.0 brings ACLs and I/O threading to the world’s most popular in-memory data store. Here’s what the changes mean in practice.
25 June 2020 · 967 words · 5 mins
Apple announces the transition from Intel to custom ARM chips for Mac. Here’s what developers need to prepare for.
4 June 2020 · 1003 words · 5 mins
Linux 5.7 ships with split-lock detection, the new ExFAT driver, userfaultfd improvements, and a thermal management overhaul — a release that matters more than its headlines suggest.
28 May 2020 · 1018 words · 5 mins
OpenAI publishes the GPT-3 paper, a 175 billion parameter language model that demonstrates surprising few-shot learning capabilities across a range of NLP tasks.
21 May 2020 · 851 words · 4 mins
Microsoft Build 2020 goes fully virtual and doubles down on developer experience with WSL 2 GA, Windows Terminal 1.0, and tighter Azure integrations.
14 May 2020 · 1175 words · 6 mins
Deno 1.0 launches with TypeScript support, a security-first permissions model, and a clean break from Node.js conventions — but can it find its niche?
7 May 2020 · 1088 words · 6 mins
GitHub Satellite 2020 introduces Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment that could change how we think about local toolchains.