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Once again for the devs in the back…
If an image has a blank alt (`<img alt="">`), then `aria-hidden` is redundant and unnecessary and redundant.

I'm sad..
I been follow them basically since day one. And they been the most exciting stories in my rss feed
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-need-for-speed-devs-working-on-battlefi…

Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…

Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026 | TechCrunch
Snap is back with a pair of lightweight, AR smart glasses. For the first time in years, the company wants to sell them to consumers.

»6 Fehler, die sich Rust-Devs sparen sollten:
Wenn Sie Rust-Code schreiben, sollten Sie dieses halbe Dutzend Verfehlungen tunlichst vermeiden.«
Das Programmieren in Rust auch nicht an einem Wochenende gelernt ist, wie viele Scriptsprachen, ist klar. Durch deren Präzision aber auch sehr sicher (Fehler sind überall von Menschen einfließbar) und schnell, auch per WASM im Webbrowser.
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6 Fehler, die sich Rust-Devs sparen sollten
Wenn Sie Rust-Code schreiben, sollten Sie dieses halbe Dutzend Verfehlungen tunlichst vermeiden.

A study dropped on 10x AI devs
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Once again, the fucking suits ruined what could have been a perfectly fine game, and the devs and players are the ones that got blamed for its "poor performance".
Report: Veilguard's late pivot from live service spelled doom for Dragon Age sequel sales
htt…

Mastodon 4.4 is about to ship. Overview for developers: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4-4-for-devs/

Mastodon 4.4 for Developers
Here's what developers need to know about the upcoming Mastodon 4.4 release.

I wonder if AI’s effectiveness will speed up the inevitable death of some ecosystems.
If folks want the “best” (and I mean least shit) Agentic AI experience, they will probably gravitate towards more populated communities where the training data can produce a semblance of “working”.
This will likely flat-line some communities since many devs want something that works.

Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

In Europe and other regions we have laws mandating that electronic devices must be properly labelled with information about their energy consumption and some other externalities...
We should demand equivalent or at least similar measures for commercially distributed software, same for cloud services.
It would be a fun experience for us, software devs, being forced to acknowledge how terribly bad is the software we create.
We should be held accountable.
#software #ecologism

Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

Day 16
Just published a deep dive into building a secure login page with Next.js, NestJS, JWT, and PostgreSQL.
- Email verification
- Role-based access control
- Subscription enforcement
- Token decoding in frontend
- SQL-level inserts for system roles
Includes full code snippets and explanation of the entire flow.
Perfect if you're working on full-stack apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL.

Packaged another open source #nodejs application for #NixOS today. A few words of advice (or more of a plea) to my fellow #FOSS JS devs:
1. Don't try to modify your frontend assets at runti…

#kde kmymoney also started to eat data. If Devs turn something from reliable and safe to unreliable and unsafe, the real question of liability comes into play. How can such a thing end in distribution?
Maybe we need to re-organize open source to have a reliable portfolio of applications, a kind of reliable #kde fr…

I am once again asking GHC devs to make it possible for tooling such as HLint and the Haskell Language Server to compile against multiple versions of GHC.
I realise that this is a gigantic undertaking, but if you're wondering why people don't stick with Haskell, it might be because every compiler version upgrade breaks *everything*.

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Indie game devs who have made roguelikes, have them on Steam and want to be in the Steam Sale that @… is doing in October (you don't have to be a speaker at their conference to get your game in the sale!) - the form must be filled out by August 1, and it's here:

Call for Steam Event Participants 2025
Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of the festival that seeks to highlight games from our community as well as games we think our community would like. ✨You don't have to be a speaker to be in the sale, and you don't have to have a game in the sale to be a speaker.✨ To submit your game for consideration, please fill out this form …

Never too many walkthroughs for a release. It may be a bit of overkill, but it works for us...
1. Pre-release the day before to go over the schedule of activities and assignments.
2. Schedule release and related backups.
3. Day of release and after schedule created for run another walkthrough to verify that the backups are where they need to be, checkpoints are there, start of the process is on manual hold.
4. Schedule an open teams call for the leads, devs and supp…

Proposal for phased deprecation of a flag F in open-source projects:
Phase 1 - Using F emits a warning.
Phase 2 - Using F is a fatal error unless you add the flag `enable-deprecated-flag-F-and-send-telemetry-to-devs`
Phase 3 - Using `enable-deprecated...` emits a warning.
Phase 4 - Using `enable-deprecated...` is a fatal error unless you add the flag `we-really-need-deprecated-flag-F-and-have-paid-for-1-year-support-here-is-the-receipt`

Quite annoyed that i18next has many versions of its own JSON format (now v4) https://www.i18next.com/misc/json-format — every time there's a new version, devs have to convert existing translation files to the new format *and* ensure that their translation management platform (e.g. Crowdin) already…

JSON Format | i18next documentation

At 4 hours I left #ubuntu installer running and went to bed. This morning, at 16 hours, I killed the process. Trying again without entering the Live desktop but I do so WISH the devs had left SOME means to know why and where it fails.
This is why when folks ask me to help with their Windows machine, I gracefully decline.

it's gotta be rough being one of the slack canvas devs and knowing that the only reason people use your feature is by accident

This is a great initiative. Please check the GitHub link on the attached post if you use Linux on Tablet PC.
From: @…
https://floss.social/@kde/114745104649286…

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

Pleading with React devs to let me open things in a new tab by middle click or holding ctrl, it's annoying how common this is and I don't know what you're all scared of.

Funny how even 5 years ago devs were looking down on QA and now the entire workforce is retraining to be a QA for AI output

I have to hand it to #Cursor. I opened up settings to find #Claude 4 already available. They KNOW what the devs want. #ai