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Gemini Code Assist for Individuals in Visual Studio Code

Gemini Code Assist is Now Free for Individuals

Google announced today that it is making its Gemini Code Assist AI coding assistant free…

It's alive! The Unix V2 "beta"

Researcher Recovers Oldest Machine-Readable Version of Unix Yet

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix…

Tabs UI is coming together
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.NETpad 2025: Building Out the Tabs (Premium)

Supporting tabs adds complexity to .NETpad, but I've successfully merged my backend code for that…

Apple Intelligence Writing Tools on Vision Pro

Apple Confirms April Rollout for New Apple Intelligence Features, Language Support

Apple said late Friday that it would roll out new AI-based Apple Intelligence features across…

ExpressVPN announced today that it has transitioned its Lightway VPN protocol to the more secure Rust programming language

ExpressVPN Rewrote its VPN Protocol with Rust

ExpressVPN announced today that it has transitioned its Lightway VPN protocol to the more secure…

.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout
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.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout (Premium)

After weeks of experimentation, I've finally arrived at what I feel is an acceptable compromise…

Android 16 Beta 2

Google Delivers Android 16 Beta 2

Google today announced the release of Android 16 Beta 2, which brings new pro camera…

Google I/O 2025

Google I/O 2025 to Overlap with Microsoft Build 2025

Google today announced that Google I/O 2025 will be held from May 20 to 21,…

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Hands-On: Coding to the Windows Copilot Runtime (Premium)

9 long months after it announced the Windows Copilot Runtime, Microsoft finally made some preview…

Windows Copilot Runtime
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No (Local) AI Developer Left Behind? (Premium)

Microsoft has some notable AI wins for developers. But the Windows Copilot Runtime is not…

BASIC 8080 source code
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Tech Nostalgia: Microcomputer + Software (Premium)

Most are familiar with the story of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, BASIC, the MITS…

Thinking about layout
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.NETpad 2025: Thinking About Layout (Premium)

I've made remarkable progress on the important, low-level code to manage multiple tabs and documents…

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

GitHub Copilot is Getting Agentic

GitHub Copilot may be the single most useful AI companion I've used, but it's about…

Early WPF plans for .NET 10
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.NETpad 2025: A Look Ahead to .NET 10 (Premium)

Microsoft added basic but buggy and incomplete support for Windows 11 theming to WPF as…

Preventing custom dialog resizing
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.NETpad 2025: Preventing Custom Dialog Resizing (Premium)

Taking another break from the multiple tabs support, here's a quick and dirty fix for…

Pebble smartwatches, circa late 2016

Google Open Sources Pebble Smartwatch Source Code

8 years after Pebble shut down, Google announced that it has open sourced the Pebble…

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