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`const fn` specialization

I've been re-reading Tracking Issue for const_eval_select · Issue #124625 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub today because I wanted to make a function that currently uses intrinsics const fn. There is Tracking Issue for…

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Openness Made All of This Possible

Every AI system in the headlines today, whether proprietary or Open Source, exists because researchers shared their work openly. That openly shared research produced Open Source software: the frameworks used to train…

Introducing Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

See You in Chicago in One Month!

In just one month, developers, maintainers, educators, and Django enthusiasts from around the world will gather in Chicago for DjangoCon US 2026. DjangoCon US is more than a conference, it's a place to learn from the…

The Top-Level Organization Unit: Business Component (BC)

A business component is a top-level package named after a single responsibility or feature, not after a technology. discovery, compiler, checkout, invoicing: reading the package names tells you what the system does.…

Adding a Makefile help Target

24 July 2026 by Phillip JohnstonI have always liked to have a make help target for my projects, which provided a target/command list and description. Normally, I managed this with a bunch of echo statements that printed…

Empowering the Future of Postgres: Highlights from the EDB India Partner Leadership Summit

The momentum around enterprise Postgres is undeniable. As organizations worldwide race to build AI-ready infrastructures and modernize legacy systems, EDB and our partners are delivering the robust data foundations they…

DARPA's big bet on a light-based quantum computer

PLUS: Neuralink patients drive wheelchairs by thought

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #304: Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy

Which is more important, the model or the "harness" around an LLM? What are ways to assemble an efficient agentic developer workflow? This week on the show, Ayan Pahwa joins us to discuss harnessing, web scraping, and…

Reusing Buffers in Multicore OCaml

OCaml is a pragmatic functional language: type-level tricks for safe code, careful buffer allocation for fast code. A scratch buffer in ocaml-wire raced under OCaml 5 domains; memtrace and ThreadSanitizer show both…

The absolute state of 'state management'

#​484 — July 24, 2026 Read on the Web React Status The Absolute State of Management — Alex Russell argues Redux, MobX, Zustand, and React itself don't 'manage state', they just propagate it whereas 'real' state…

Introducing TanStack Markdown and TanStack Highlight | TanStack Blog

We Stopped Using RSC on TanStack.com | TanStack Blog

Stripe's OpenRouter talks 💰, ChatGPT Health ⚕️, why software factories fail 👨‍💻

How to Track and Audit AI Agent Activities in GitLab Duo

Maintain complete operational transparency and systemic control over your background processes with GitLab Duo's AI Audit Events Report. In this configuration tutorial, Developer Advocate Fernando Diaz shows you how to…