AirPods Pro hearing aid upgrade hits stocks of major brands
Apple’s announcement of the new AirPods Pro hearing aid feature has triggered a fall in the stock value of major standalone hearing aid brands. The Cupertino company had long been expected to add hearing aid features to AirPods, and Monday’s event ...
Search scoping helps you find what you’re looking for
If you’re working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling throug...
File handling in server-side JavaScript
Working with files on the server is a perennial need for developers. Server-side JavaScript platforms like Node, Deno, and Bun offer a flexible and fairly simple approach to doing things with files. This article shows you how to use the fs library t...
Python 3.13 RC2, with and without GIL
Python 3.13 RC2 is now available in Tumbleweed. This new version of the Python interpreter will be released in October 2024. There is a lot of changes and new features in 3.13, but we’re also bringing exiting experimental features in Tumbleweed. Expe...
System insights with command line tools: lsof and lsblk
In our ongoing series on Linux system insights, we have a look into essential command-line utilities that provide information about the system’s hardware and status. Following our previous discussions on lscpu, lsusb, dmidecode and lspci, we now ...
TypeScript 5.6 now generally available
TypeScript 5.6, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release. The update features capabilities that include disallowing nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullish...
