Developer & Open Source
83 stories · all topicsProgramming, open source, languages, frameworks and the tooling around them — the developer desk gathered in one report.
Linux Mint 27 arrives next month, and I like it already: New features and other upgrades to expect
It starts with a surprise version number: Linux Mint 27 instead of 24. But the next release brings far more changes than that.
Safari finally gets 3 popular browser features – and I can’t wait to try them
New developer beta release notes point to deeper Siri AI integration and more Safari customization.
Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster
Together AI released Together Compiler, an agent-driven loop that keeps re-optimizing the inference forward pass as traffic shifts…
Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java
Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the…
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone. The post Arnis turns any…
A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilitie…
Is AI really reshaping the developer market?
Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex
Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before openi…
Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gear…
Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working
Anthropic has confirmed that it added new restrictions to Claude Code to prevent users from recreating existing video games. But T…
Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker de…
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. …
What’s !important #18: , Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s impo…
Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?
Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, left Google earlier this year to lead the new A…
How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favo…
Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API
The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript i…
A developer opened Postman. Then two AI coding agents changed without their permission.
A developer says Postman’s desktop app installed plugins into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex without their permission. The app also …
Developers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer.
We asked Claude “Which CMS platforms support MCP integration?” It searched the web and put Webflow in its first group, The post De…
Anthropic found a way to prove which AI model answered you — but there’s a costly catch
Developers using AI APIs have little way of knowing whether the model answering their requests is actually the one they’re The pos…
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and …
Kubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams.
Welcome to the final edition of Road to KubeCon, where we track the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem each week on The post Ku…
AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong
Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching sy…
Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents
See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report. The p…
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