Designing a dynamic web application with Astro
Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for JavaScript developers, and for good reason. Astro makes it relatively easy to structure web applications for maximum effect with minimal effort. It can be hard to get your head around how Astro wo...
Why Wasm fascinates me
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
Air-gapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)
The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big assumption: that you always have a network connection. If you don’t, it’s typically because you’re on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, and that’s temporary. But what about when...
How Wasm reinvents web development
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
JavaOne 2025 heralds Java’s 30th birthday
With Java advancing toward its 30th anniversary, Oracle will hold its annual JavaOne conference next week, centering around the Java language, the evolution of the Java platform, and the role of Java in areas such as generative AI and machine learning...
Go-based TypeScript to dramatically improve speed, scalability
Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation based on Google’s Go language. The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and memory usage, making it easier to scale TypeScript to large code bases,...
3 of the best LLM integration tools for R
When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused largely on OpenAI and ChatGPT-like functionality or coding add-ins. Today, the landscape includes packages that natively support more LLM suppliers—including mode...
Has AWS lost its edge?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long maintained its dominance in the cloud computing market, serving as the backbone for many enterprises’ digital transformation efforts for more than a decade. However, recent shifts in strategy suggest that AWS may b...
Fortran, Delphi rise in Tiobe popularity index
Older programming languages such as Fortran and Delphi are making a comeback, based on the results of this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. Tiobe attributes their rise to the need to maintain vital legacy systems still dependent on them. ...
Building generative AI? Get ready for generative UI
There’s currently no stopping generative AI spending. Analyst firm Omdia expects spending on generative AI applications to hit $58 billion by 2028. Yet while this level of investment is a significant amount, actual deployment of generative AI applic...
Vibes won’t make your software successful
I regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embra...
Microsoft previews AI chat template for .NET
Microsoft is previewing a .NET web app template intended to enable quick development of AI-powered chat applications. Part of an ongoing effort to make AI development with .NET easier to discover and use, the AI Chat Web App template was announced Mar...
JFrog unveils JFrog ML for MLOps
JFrog has released JFrog ML, an MLOps solution designed to bring devops best practices to building, deploying, managing, and monitoring AI/ML workflows. The company said that by pairing practices for developing machine learning models with traditional...
JavaScript tools and frameworks we’re watching now
JavaScript is moving in two directions at once, favoring both comprehensive, full-stack frameworks and greater simplicity. Sometimes these trends are harmonious, and at other times they are at odds. The drive for frameworks and libraries that abstra...
