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Gemini Live audio

Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at…

Announcing the PSF Strategic Plan 2026

In May, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) shared the high-level goals of our Strategic Plan. In June, we published the full draft and opened it for community feedback. Today we are sharing the outcome: at its July 8…

Java 27 in IntelliJ IDEA

In line with the six-month release cadence, Java 27 was released on September 15, 2026. In this blog post, we will look at what’s included in this release, how IntelliJ IDEA continues to support the latest Java…

Has anyone encountered use of ControlFlow::Continue where the value is other than ()?

The default type for the second generic argument of std::ops::ControlFlow is (). This makes sense in usual cases since it matches how loops behave in Rust. However, I am curious if anyone has encountered a use case…

Nothing appears on screen except purple (The clear color)

main.rs: use std::sync::Arc; use bumpalo::Bump; use winit::{ application::ApplicationHandler, event::WindowEvent, event_loop::{ActiveEventLoop, ControlFlow, EventLoop}, window::{WindowAttributes, WindowId}, }; mod…

This Week in Spring - September 15th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this to you from sun-kissed San Francisco, CA, sipping some coffee and watching the bay from my breakfast nook. What a…

Đừng để LLM tự lái vòng lặp agent: FSM và cổng kiểm tra

Originally published on NextFuture Agent của bạn chạy đẹp trong demo. Lên production, nó lặp lại đúng một tool call đang lỗi cho tới khi hết ngân sách token, hoặc nhảy thẳng sang bước cuối khi người dùng còn chưa gửi…

Bắt AI coding agent dùng lại boilerplate của dự án

Originally published on NextFuture Bạn bảo Cursor hoặc Claude Code thêm một route thanh toán. Mười phút sau, agent viết xong một database client mới tinh — trong khi lib/db.ts của bạn đã nằm sẵn ở đó từ đầu dự án. Đây…

Free Developer Utilities: JSON Formatters, JWT Decoders, and Everyday Dev Tools

Shipping software involves tiny, repetitive jobs: pretty-printing JSON, inspecting a JWT, encoding a string, checking a hash, or converting a color. IDEs and CLIs are powerful, but a fast browser tab helps when pairing,…

Paste your Stripe webhook handler here: 7 checks that run in this post

The most-viewed Stripe question on Stack Overflow right now is not a subtle one. It is Webhook payload must be provided as a string or a Buffer — 25,121 views, 13 answers. Right behind it: NextJS Stripe Webhook Raw Body…

Stop Relying on Static Reviews: How to Compare Proxies with Live Benchmark Data

Stop Relying on Static Reviews: How to Generate Custom Side-by-Side Proxy Performance Comparisons If you build web scrapers, automation bots, or data pipelines, choosing a proxy provider is often a game of trial and…

Why Facebook Ads Library Scraper Runs Drop Connections Past 300 Seconds

The Architectural Cost of Meta’s Ad Transparency Gates To scrape the Facebook Ad Library at scale, you must bypass aggressive, IP-based blocking and structural pagination limits. Meta gates its ad library behind…

Python 3.15 Preview: Lazy Imports

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Prototyping a New CLI for Wagtail

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Quiz: Python 3.15 Preview: Lazy Imports

An Effective Python Development Environment

Python Timer Functions