Liberux Nexx: a Linux smartphone built in Europe
With the possibility that Google is going to make some big changes to the open source status of Android, the importance of smartphones that don’t run either iOS or (some form of) Android is definitely increasing. Linux on smartphones is not as comple...
Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge
An AI security vendor on Tuesday published an analysis of the generative AI (genAI) coding differences between its retail and finance customers, revealing that the retail approach is much more aggressive, whereas finance has been working on the techno...
Resurrecting a dead Torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Kian Bradley was downloading something using BitTorrent, and noticed that quite a few trackers were dead. Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren’t being used. That got me thinking. What if I picked up ...
Accessibility programming doesn’t feel accessible
Accessibility is something that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, especially considering because not only will we need accessibility features eventually as we grow older, but also because a lot of accessibility features are just helpful even if yo...
Get started with Python type hints
Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers because you don’t have to rigorously def...
Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine
Astro is a stable server-side platform for launching web applications. Alpine is the go-to minimalist front-end JavaScript framework. Put them together, and you have a lean, versatile stack. This article walks through developing a web application that...
OpenAI’s o3 price plunge changes everything for vibe coders
On June 10, OpenAI slashed the list price of its flagship reasoning model, o3, by roughly 80% from $10 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens to $2 and $8, respectively. API resellers reacted immediately: Cursor now counts one o3 r...
Microsoft’s Edit Text Editor Runs Well on Ubuntu
If you spend a lot time in a terminal on Linux you’ll have preferred command-line text editor, but Microsoft’s recently announced open-source offering, simply called Edit, might be worth checking out — if only so you know you’re not missing ou...
Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu
Edit is a new open source command line text editor from Microsoft that supports Windows, macOS and Linux. Learn what it can do, and how to try it on Ubuntu. You're reading Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! U...
KDE Plasma 6.4 released
A new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful. Plasma 6.4 improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window manag...
