Intro to Elixir: A fresh take on functional programming
Elixir is one of the most interesting stories in the world of programming languages right now. Built on the Erlang ecosystem, Elixir offers a fresh take on functional programming and new ways of thinking about concurrency and fault tolerance. We’ll ...
Generative AI vs. the software developer
If you aren’t aware of the tectonic shift that is generative artificial intelligence, then I can only assume your phone has been on Airplane mode for the last year. You can’t swing a laptop bag these days without knocking over four startups doing...
VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...
RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard!
2025 is the year of Linux on RISC-V. No, seriously. Sit back down–you can’t get off until the next stop anyways. Fedora is jumping on the RISC-V train as a fifth architecture. While there’s still some work to be done, we’ve hit some major miles...
Servo Begins Reworking Its Embed API So It's Easier To Integrate
One of the most logical paths forward for the Servo web browser engine is making it compelling for embedding within applications as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), WebKitGTK, and other browser engines. Servo developers recently...
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" On Linux?
Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the...