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18 Oct 2026 edition

94 articles · 13 sources · 2 papers ·

Top topics: Python · JavaScript · AI

Python AI Django

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Should CommandExt::exec be safe?

Currently CommandExt::exec is safe although successful exec does not release resources by either calling destructors or terminating program (so kernel can release resources by its own). Therefore my suggestion is to…

Source: Rust Internals Forum mgalczynski
Java

Agents Have No Runtime Insight-airhacks.fm podcast

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes The #419 airhacks.fm episode with Ingo Kegel (@IngoKegel) about: The JProfiler MCP server gives coding agents runtime insight into a JVM, which changes how tool…

Source: Adam Bien Blog
Java

Maps without a tile server

If you have built an application with an interactive map, you know what you are in for. You pick a tile provider such as Google or Mapbox, or a self-hosted stack like GeoServer or Martin, and your frontend requests…

Source: A Java geek
Python

Love Is Patient

> Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13) I've been learning that love isn't the feeling at the top of the mountain. It's what you do on the way back down.…

Source: Kenneth Reitz
JavaScript

XState v4 code on v5: no error, just NaN

XState v5 shipped in December 2023, and its migration guide lists a breaking change that is easy to miss: implementation functions now take a single object argument with context, event and other properties. Code written…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed ProvenPin
JavaScript

CSV delimiter detection should be allowed to return ambiguity

Consider this small delimited file: id,name;label 1,A;B With a comma delimiter, it has two columns: [ ["id", "name;label"], ["1", "A;B"] ] With a semicolon delimiter, it also has two columns: [ ["id,name", "label"],…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Daniil Kornilov
JavaScript

Reject malformed UTF-8 before it reaches your CSV parser

A CSV import can have the right number of columns and still contain damaged text. The damage may happen before the CSV parser receives a string. JavaScript's TextDecoder replaces malformed byte sequences by default.…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Daniil Kornilov
Java AI

Safeguarding LLM Output in Spring AI

Learn to create a custom advisor that inspects the model's response before Spring AI ChatClient hands it back to the user. The post Safeguarding LLM Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung.

Source: Baeldung Yadier Betancourt
JavaScript

I Built a Browser Fighting Game: Martin No Filter Fighters

A small browser game with a focused loop I built a simple landing page for Martin No Filter Fighters, an unofficial fan-made browser fighting game. The goal was to keep the page focused: open it, start the game, and…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Carmella Reed

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