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Introducing Muse Glimmer

Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it…

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 Is Out!

We’ve just released the first minor update for IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 – v2026.2.1. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download…

Django is moving to an annual release cycle

Django's Steering Council has accepted the Django Enhancement Proposal DEP 20 to move Django to an annual release cycle. From January 2028, Django will make one feature release a year, giving every feature release the…

BCE/ECB for Static Pages, HTML as DB, Platform Sufficiency for Agents--Questions for the 149th airhacks.tv

Questions and topics for the 2026.08/149th edition of airhacks.tv: BCE/ECB (Boundary-Control-Entity) for ...with static, semantic pages floci.io AWS cloud emulator "the role of the platform in LLM-assisted development"…

Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already. — OpenClaw…

Notes from week 32

Git 2.55 broke opam repo add for all the 4.x base images, and ocaml.org was under scraper attack. On the Tessera side, the v1 dataset got converted to Zarr via Fargate, and there was further investigation into the…

New splat import proposal

Proposal: # main.py from utils.* import ClassFromA, ClassFromB, func_from_moreutils Given the following directory/file structure: utils/ A.py B.py moreutils.py main.py Assuming A, B, and moreutils all have multiple…

Add/fix RN team member links (#8558)

Add/fix RN team member links (#8558)

Project Valhalla's First Preview: JEP 401 Redefines == for Java Objects

JEP 401, integrated into JDK 28, introduces value objects. These new class instances feature final fields, altered behavior for equality checks, and stricter construction and synchronization rules. It aims to enhance…

Qt Designer and Python: Build Your GUI Applications Faster

Learn how to use Qt Designer to build Python GUIs with PyQt6. Create your main windows and dialogs visually, then load them in your app.

#558: Hyper-Personal Software with Python

Every company has one. The little internal tool that Jane built back in 2021, and then Jane left. Nobody understands it, nobody will touch it. There are two unwritten rules around it: don't change it, it's working. And…

Java News Roundup: Shenandoah GC, TeamCity CVE, A2A Java SDK, Camel, Gradle, GlassFish, Groovy

This week's Java roundup for August 3rd, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 535, Shenandoah GC: Generational Mode by Default, targeted for JDK 28; point releases of A2A Java SDK, Apache Camel and Gradle; a…

Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Java and MongoDB

Modern organizations store large volumes of information in documents, databases, internal platforms, support systems, policies, and operational tools. However, having data does not guarantee that employees or…

Two lines of Python that segfault the interpreter

Two lines of Python could crash CPython 3.14 through 3.16 because SET_ADD assumed it was always operating on a real set, while PEP 749 made__conditional_annotations__rebindable from Python code. The post explains how…

IPython is All You Need

Nathan Cooper shows how to turn IPython into a full terminal shell that runs Bash commands without !, displays images, and retains rich execution history. He then adds an AI assistant that can understand shell context,…

Cyclic trait implementations: motivation

Rewriting in Rust: Performance, Failures, 2026 Reality Check

Call for testing: Restricting trait implementability and field mutability