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This session has a plot twist at the end that qualifies as a cinematic masterpiece of the year:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/308

Optimize CPU performance with Instruments - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Learn how to optimize your app for Apple silicon with two new hardware-assisted tools in Instruments. We'll start by covering how to...

Back in 2015 (iirc) Apple introduced ad blocking extensions to Safari, i know a well-known app developer made one and immediately got attacked by fellow app developers and took it off market within days; does anyone remember the name of the developer/product or have a link to a news story about it?

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Robert Brennan, Graham Neubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08149

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools to support software development. While numerous studies have examined developer use of copilots, which can provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents, which can automatically write files and run code, still largely rely on static benchmarks without humans-in-the-loop. In this work, we conduct the first academic study to explore developer interactions with coding agents and characteri…

Multilingual Multimodal Software Developer for Code Generation
Linzheng Chai, Jian Yang, Shukai Liu, Wei Zhang, Liran Wang, Ke Jin, Tao Sun, Congnan Liu, Chenchen Zhang, Hualei Zhu, Jiaheng Liu, Xianjie Wu, Ge Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Zhoujun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08719

Multilingual Multimodal Software Developer for Code Generation
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved code generation, yet most models remain text-only, neglecting crucial visual aids like diagrams and flowcharts used in real-world software development. To bridge this gap, we introduce MM-Coder, a Multilingual Multimodal software developer. MM-Coder integrates visual design inputs-Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and flowcharts (termed Visual Workflow)-with textual instructions to enhance code generation ac…

What #Spring Didn’t Teach You: Becoming a Modern Java Developer with #Quarkus by @…
I'll abstain from commenting here. You'll find my opinion in my next newsletter …

"If the world followed the Tao, Apple would make the hardware, Microsoft would make the developer tools, and everything would run under QNX. Alas, QNX has been bought by BlackBerry, Microsoft makes operating systems and Apple makes developer tools."
https://akos.ma/blog/the-tao-of-swift/…

The Tao of Swift
I gave this talk in September 2014, in Zürich, the same day Apple announced the Apple Watch.

If you aren't playing with:
defaults write bundle.id.goes.here EnablePasteboardPrivacyDeveloperPreview -bool yes
on a recent macOS, you should
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/appkit#macOS-pasteboard-privacy

So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
4/

macOS 26: Nativer Container-Support freut Developer – und nicht nur die
Wer weder Docker noch Orbstack nutzen möchte, muss das unter macOS 26 nicht mehr: Es gibt nativen Support für Linux-Container direkt vom Terminal aus.

more jitters! more jitters! #nyc https://mastodon.cloud/@janggolan/114853927213830786

Rust brings day-to-day happiness. 🥰 🦀
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/meta-rust-dx/

From C to Rust: inside Meta’s Developer-Led Messaging Migration
Meta has begun rewriting its mobile messaging infrastructure in Rust, gradually replacing a legacy C codebase that engineers say had become increasingly difficult to maintain and frustrating to work w

Inside every developer there are two wolves.
One wolf worries about cache invalidation.
The other wolf ponders deeply about the naming of things.
The third wolf makes off-by-one errors.
#programming #humor

Apple have announce, in WWDC25 sessions, that FinanceKit will soon be available in the UK.
So Apple Card UK launch incoming?
https://developer.apple.com/financekit/

Get Started with FinanceKit - Apple Developer

"When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Top 6 features of #SpringBoot 3.5
https://zarinfam.medium.com/ae0b38a7822a?sk=dbfea1846688a1726130c86c2636b244

If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

Over five years now I'm programming on the JVM. Started out with #Java, moved to #Kotlin as my daily driver, dipped my toes into #Scala and once in a while enjoy experimenting with

#UX designer: Carousels are bad from a usability perspective
Web dev: We have recreated the carousel from the classic research paper "don't use carousels" entirely in #CSS

Carousels with CSS  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Support scroll experiences with navigation buttons and markers with just a few lines of CSS.

Y'all I just typed in "heist model of developer collaboration" into Google _on my work account_
and although the AI overview said "this isn't a thing"
the _very top hit_ on the actual links was a Livejournal echo of a post *THAT I WROTE* in 2013
https://trochee.net/20…

“Bank heist” collaboration pattern
Here’s my favorite collaboration pattern so far: the Bank Heist collaboration pattern. This pattern, which we know from The A-Team, Ocean’s 11 and Leverage, among others, shares many pr…

I *loved* this game! And the others from the same developer. Masters of the Elements (1999) is one of the all-time great art games imho.
https://digipres.club/@misty/114496041511519164

Misty (@misty@digipres.club)
Attached: 1 image Fantastic adventures in the world of the internet!

ClaudeCode: When CLI is Too Much #AI #opensource #developer 🤯
😅 It's pretty funny what pops up in the

I know as a developer just how hard it is to actually make it work, but perhaps the lesson of the Liquid Glass public reaction fiasco is for Apple to just give users •much• more control over the UI theme.
Between the retina transition, iOS 7, accessibility improvements like variable text size, dark mode support, and the long migration away from hard-coded layouts, we developers have grown used to making more adaptable UIs. Lots of the building blocks for OS-level theming are there, both in SwiftUI and in UIKit.
If Apple said “Themes are coming!” at WWDC 26, developers would adapt.
Assuming we still have a functioning society at that point.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@realmacdan/113792374380828124

Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism
Ashley Samuelson, Andrew K. Hirsch, Ethan Cecchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10913 h…

Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism
Choreographic programming is a promising new paradigm for programming concurrent systems where a developer writes a single centralized program that compiles to individual programs for each node. Existing choreographic languages, however, lack critical features integral to modern systems, like the ability of one node to dynamically compute who should perform a computation and send that decision to others. This work addresses this gap with $λ_{QC}$, the first typed choreographic language with \e…

Well that sucks. I had high hopes for Subnautica 2.
https://www.eurogamer.net/subnautica-2-drama-escalates-ousted-developers-launch-legal-action-as-krafton-accuses-them-of-abandoning-project…

“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”
I see no lie.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-t…

Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged
Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe c…

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is live, taking maybe 15–18 minutes. Questions by group:
• Learning & career (23 questions)
• Tech & culture (20 questions)
• Community (21 questions)
• ‘AI’ (20 questions)
• Close (3 questions)

The Impact of Generative AI on Code Expertise Models: An Exploratory Study
Ot\'avio Cury, Guilherme Avelino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08160 https://…

The Impact of Generative AI on Code Expertise Models: An Exploratory Study
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools for source code generation have significantly boosted productivity in software development. However, they also raise concerns, particularly the risk that developers may rely heavily on these tools, reducing their understanding of the generated code. We hypothesize that this loss of understanding may be reflected in source code knowledge models, which are used to identify developer expertise. In this work, we present an exploratory analysis of how…

Every developer has uttered the phrase, “Oops, I created a content management system,” at least once in their career. 😅

With DevCon and Cream City Code gone, That Conference gone, and 5 LAKES Front never happening, there aren't any developer conferences left in the #Milwaukee area. 🥺

So some guy who was an active developer of Xorg forked it, and now we have to kill X11 support ASAP because...to hell with the system that works, everybody has to use jank-ass Wayland?

Hi friends of research software 👋
The @… is running a free workshop on test-driven development on Monday.
https://events.digital-research.academ

Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Continuously changing requirements lead to rapidly evolving software. While adapting the source code to fit the requirements, we have to ensure that code changes work as intended and don’t break existing features. At the same time the source code needs to stay maintainable and extensible to allow changes for new features in the future. This is where the development approach of Test-Driven Development comes in. It emphasizes writing automated tests before writing the code. The developer...

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

Yah, that is going to go over so well. About half my career is now supporting old stuff where the 'experts' claimed that it will replace programmers. Most of what I work on to be charitable is unmaintainable and inefficient code unless we use the developer package from the vendor. It has the potential to be a good tool that generates parts of the boring code, but needs someone who knows what the hell they are doing to make it secure and efficient! It also needs great (or a least …

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

Quand la souveraineté digitale fait bouger des plaques tectoniques
Japon - EU
Sans parler de la Chine, avec plusieurs années d’avance sur la question https://altstack.jp/en/categories/

One last push:
The @… app campaign is just €7000 away from it's €55,000 target, and 2 days to go. Surely there are #fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

If only landlords elsewhere in #GreaterManchester were selective.
'We’re being picky - it can't be filled with vape shops and barbers' - Manchester Evening News
…

'We’re being picky - it can't be filled with vape shops and barbers'
A developer has said it is ‘being picky’ about who moves into the commercial space at a new town centre flagship complex

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

I thought people behind #wordpress are trying to do better than the 🍍🍕🤡.
But it’s happening again, a comment of mine is deleted for no reasons and without any communication. It’s annoying!

"The overall life expectancy of a programming language has dwindled in the past 56 years. A COBOL developer in the 1960s most probably retired in the 2000s, still writing COBOL. As a former professional VBScript, then C#, then Objective-C, later Swift, and finally Go developer, I can only see this trend accelerating. We should expect our favorite programming language to be replaced and removed from the market in a relatively shorter time every decade."

Alan Perlis And The Evolution Of Programming Languages
Alan Jay Perlis knew a thing or two about programming languages, both as an early pioneer of our industry and as one of the designers of ALGOL. The language that has inspired the one you, dear reader of this magazine, probably use every day to earn a living.

""[…] Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers […] provides self-serve, no-cost access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux [#RHEL] for enterprise development use.""

Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live https://www.404media.co/developer-builds-tool-that-scrapes-youtube-comments-uses-ai-to-predict-where-users-live/

AgentPorn.ai - Where Developers get their fix
https://agentporn.ai/

macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass is slick but slightly overwrought, and the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful, but fall short of Raycast (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apple/685052/appl

Hands on with macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, new theme options, and Spotlight
macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 1 is here, with our first glimpse at Liquid Glass on the desktop, plus the first glimmers of Spotlight’s big new moves.

Like other large #FreeSoftware projects, #Gentoo developers have varying degrees of activity. There are some people who dedicate a lot of their free time to Gentoo, maintain hundreds of packages, participate in multiple areas. Then, there are people with narrower interests, lower commit counts, but they are still putting an effort and making Gentoo a better distribution — and that matters. But then, there is the tail.
There is a few of developers whose main talents seem to be 1) finding packages that require absolutely minimal maintenance effort, and 2) justifying their developer status with long essays. I mean, this is getting beyond absurd. It is not just "my packages are all up-to-date". It is not even "my packages require very low maintenance, that's why I'm not doing much". It is literally "I deliberately choose low-maintenance packages, so I don't have to do anything". But of course, all these people definitely need commit access to Gentoo, and show off their Gentoo developer badges, and it's *so damn unfair*.
And in the meantime, other developers are overburdened, and getting burned out. And they step down from more things. And who takes these things over? Of course, not the developers who just admitted to not having much to do…

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

Software innovation might be freezing in place—and AI could be to blame. Theo Browne points out that Copilot and ChatGPT often return React-style code even for Solid or Elixir projects. Why? Because they’ve seen React a million times more. Python 3 took a decade to overtake Python 2. If that transition had to happen today, would our dependence on AI suggestions keep us from making the jump?

Newsflash: Game developer confident that their joke that relies on political knowledge is in no way political. He'll return now to making apolitical games about having the freedom to shoot people.
https://www.

'I'm not here to apologize but I am here to clarify': Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is 'not a political statement'
The 1047 Games CEO wore the Trump slogan-parody hat on stage at Summer Game Fest.

If you want to support the Fediverse financially, here's a way to do it: @…, a French non-profit, is raising money for the development of Peertube.
https://fediscience…

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

As web developer I am interested in learning more about Spritely Goblins but I think I need a better starter guide then this.
Would love to spin it up on DigitalOcean or Github codespace and play with some code and see if I could build something.
https://files.spritely.…

🌟 Real-World Impact
Companies are already seeing incredible results: • Goldman Sachs piloting autonomous AI coders • Developer tools integrating for enhanced productivity • Research institutions building custom agentic systems • Startups leveraging cost-effective AI infrastructure 🏢

iOS 26 Developer Beta 2: Apple entglast das iPhone wieder etwas
Die erste Vorabversion von iOS 26 bekam eine Menge Kritik ab. Die zweite bringt eine Menge Verbesserungen, darunter solche optischer Art.

Angular Blog editor Minko Gechev shares what's new on Angular 20. Highlights include newly stabilized APIs, improved debugging tools, polishing the developer experience, and features to enhance generative AI development.
Also, the Angular team has launched an RFC to pick an official mascot for Angular. Isn't that great?
"Announcing Angular v20"

Leveraging LLMs for Semantic Conflict Detection via Unit Test Generation
Nathalia Barbosa (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), Paulo Borba (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), L\'euson Da Silva (Polytechnique Montreal, Canad\'a)
https://arxiv.org…

Leveraging LLMs for Semantic Conflict Detection via Unit Test Generation
Semantic conflicts arise when a developer introduces changes to a codebase that unintentionally affect the behavior of changes integrated in parallel by other developers. Traditional merge tools are unable to detect such conflicts, so complementary tools like SMAT have been proposed. SMAT relies on generating and executing unit tests: if a test fails on the base version, passes on a developer's modified version, but fails again after merging with another developer's changes, a semantic conflict…

Windows-Insider-Vorschau ermöglicht Export der Recall-Schnappschüsse – in der EU
In Windows-Insider-Vorschauen im Beta- und Developer-Kanal testet Microsoft in der EU eine Export-Funktion für Recall-Schnappschüsse.

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using "the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-i…

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.

I'm absolutely certain they are reaping massive developer efficiencies with Copilot.
I do not believe they are building value with it.

@… Any serious developer would appreciate the joke 😉

Seriously, linkedin spammers?
You say you came across my REcon talk. About semiconductor reverse engineering.
And this somehow makes me a good candidate for a role involving cheating at online poker???

When someone has the compound title of #developer, #dba, and business analyst in their email signature.

Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.
If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?
(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…

are you a platform/embedded developer?
do you need to interact with hardware in a semi-custom manner?
would you like to suffer a lot less doing it?
if so, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer might be for you. the code below is all you need to build a custom testbench for a DUT you've never seen before. just as easily you can add JTAG/SWD debug, protocol analyzers, etc.…

Why Senior Developers Google Basic Syntax
https://faun.pub/why-senior-developers-google-basic-syntax-fa56445e355f

Apropos @… the french developer collective @… are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Apple says it plans to release iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 in the fall; developer betas will be available today, with public betas next month (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/675819/ios-26-macos-tahoe-26-release-date-apple-…

iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe are coming this fall
Apple announced a release date for the next major versions of its iPhone and Mac operating systems at WWDC 2025.

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Amr Mohamed, Maram Assi, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Large language model assistants (LLM-assistants) present new opportunities to transform software development. Developers are increasingly adopting these tools across tasks, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and design. Yet, despite growing interest, there is no synthesis of how LLM-assistants affect software developer productivity. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of 37 peer-reviewed studies published between January 2014 and December 2024 that examine…

"We cannot preclude developers from “vibe coding” their way into a working application; but we can teach them how to properly integrate the very likely spaghetti mess produced by those bullshit machines, how to understand it, and how to make it work with today’s compilers, which, let us be honest: are the best we have ever had, and it would be a shame to ignore them completely."

The Allure Of Vibe Coding
"Compiler Explorer" is the name of a fascinating project by Matt Godbolt, a British C++ software developer living in Chicago. It is the simplest and most wonderful thing; just paste a snippet of code on the left pane (in C, C++, D, C#, Java, Python, and a myriad more languages), and you will see on the right its equivalent in assembly code, as produced by one of a long list of compilers, including some commercial ones, for a wide variety of CPU architectures and software versions.

MATLAB developer bringing systems back online following ransomware attack https://therecord.media/matlab-developer-bringing-systems-online-ransomware

One way to spend time instead of #doomscrolling has recentlt been #codewars
Bitesized problems of different difficulties for almost any language.
Not as big as #adventofcode

A live blog of WWDC, where OS redesigns, new naming conventions, and more are expected, after failing to deliver on Apple Intelligence, unveiled at WWDC 2024 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/681646/apple-wwdc-2025-news-rumors-ios-26…

WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference
Apple faces some unusually high stakes at this year’s WWDC.

"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies
This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, with the deal expected to close in H2 2025 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components…

GlobalFoundries to make RISC-V CPUs — fab acquires MIPS, will integrate RISC-V and AI IP into its portfolio
For an unknown sum.

DevMuT: Testing Deep Learning Framework via Developer Expertise-Based Mutation
Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhixiang Cao, Peiran Yang, Yinglong Zou, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04360

DevMuT: Testing Deep Learning Framework via Developer Expertise-Based Mutation
Deep learning (DL) frameworks are the fundamental infrastructure for various DL applications. Framework defects can profoundly cause disastrous accidents, thus requiring sufficient detection. In previous studies, researchers adopt DL models as test inputs combined with mutation to generate more diverse models. Though these studies demonstrate promising results, most detected defects are considered trivial (i.e., either treated as edge cases or ignored by the developers). To identify important b…

Just investigated the app myself. It wants “always” location permissions, which is concerning. I’d like a bit more trust and accountability from the developer before enabling that.
Left it on my phone, and will enable location tracking if and when I make a report.

"Hard to believe, but it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming “Redmond, start your photocopiers” or “Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista”. The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the “Longhorn” saga."

Dave Plummer
Hard to believe as it is, it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming "Redmond, start your photocopiers" or "Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista". The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the "Longhorn" saga.

Does anyone know a developer who works at Wayfair?

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22390

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Conversational large-language models are extensively used for issue resolution tasks. However, not all developer-LLM conversations are useful for effective issue resolution. In this paper, we analyze 686 developer-ChatGPT conversations shared within GitHub issue threads to identify characteristics that make these conversations effective for issue resolution. First, we analyze the conversations and their corresponding issues to distinguish helpful from unhelpful conversations. We begin by catego…

I think I did only two things that really mattered to that org in the long term:
1. Stopped them from buying a really dubious CMS / web app engine that would have cost the org (a nonprofit) millions it didn’t have to be vendor-locked into a dead-end platform that would have set their site back years.
2. Selected a new developer hire who was far more dependable and mature than I was, and became their lynchpin. She wrote tons of software that did actually matter, and stayed with them for years.
Whatever dev skills I had turned out to be good for (1) saying “stop, don’t” and (2) recognizing an excellent person in a job interview. Note that neither involved the code I wrote.
2/2

From Developer Pairs to AI Copilots: A Comparative Study on Knowledge Transfer
Alisa Welter, Niklas Schneider, Tobias Dick, Kallistos Weis, Christof Tinnes, Marvin Wyrich, Sven Apel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04785

From Developer Pairs to AI Copilots: A Comparative Study on Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge transfer is fundamental to human collaboration and is therefore common in software engineering. Pair programming is a prominent instance. With the rise of AI coding assistants, developers now not only work with human partners but also, as some claim, with AI pair programmers. Although studies confirm knowledge transfer during human pair programming, its effectiveness with AI coding assistants remains uncertain. To analyze knowledge transfer in both human-human and human-AI settings, w…

A developer details how he shipped Context, a native macOS app that was almost 100% built using Claude Code (Indragie Karunaratne/My Portfolio)
https://www.indragie.com/blog/i-shipped-a-macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code

I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code
How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.

A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4nC87SA

Towards a Science of Developer eXperience (DevX)
Benoit Combemale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23715 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23715…

Towards a Science of Developer eXperience (DevX)
As software continues to permeate nearly every facet of modern life, the complexity and ubiquity of digital services underscore the need for sustainable, effective, and inclusive software development practices. Although software engineering has made significant progress in technical challenges since its inception, the human experience of those involved in software creation, broadly defined as developers, remains underexplored. This column advocates for the formal recognition of Developer eXperi…

AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI
AMD confirmed on Thursday to CRN that it has acquired the employees behind AI chip startup Untether AI.

An Apple-funded study says the global App Store drove $1.3T in developer billings and sales in 2024, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/appl

Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission | TechCrunch
Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

Exploring Prompt Patterns in AI-Assisted Code Generation: Towards Faster and More Effective Developer-AI Collaboration
Sophia DiCuffa, Amanda Zambrana, Priyanshi Yadav, Sashidhar Madiraju, Khushi Suman, Eman Abdullah AlOmar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01604

Exploring Prompt Patterns in AI-Assisted Code Generation: Towards Faster and More Effective Developer-AI Collaboration
The growing integration of AI tools in software development, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has revolutionized how developers approach coding tasks. However, achieving high-quality code often requires iterative interactions, which can be time-consuming and inefficient. This paper explores the application of structured prompt patterns to minimize the number of interactions required for satisfactory AI-assisted code generation. Using the DevGPT dataset, we analyzed sev…

The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/03/telegram-…

Exclusive: Telegram blockchain startup TOP raises $28.5 million as messaging platform expands crypto footprint
Ribbit Capital led the Series A fundraise, with participation from Pantera Capital.

Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678403/epic-games-metahumans-unreal-engine

Epic is making it easier to create MetaHumans
Epic Games’ announced at its State of Unreal show MetaHuman Creator is now embedded within Unreal Engine and that they can be used in engines like Unity and Godot.

Exploring Developer Experience Factors in Software Ecosystems
Rodrigo Oliveira Zacarias, L\'eo Carvalho Ramos Antunes, M\'arcio de Oliveira Barros, Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19757

Exploring Developer Experience Factors in Software Ecosystems
Context: Developer experience (DX) plays a key role in developers' performance and their continued involvement in a software ecosystem (SECO) platform. While researchers and practitioners have recognized several factors affecting DX in SECO platforms, a clear roadmap of the most influential factors is still missing. This is particularly important given the direct impact on developers' interest in SECO and their ongoing engagement with the common technological platform. Goal: This work aims to i…

A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, and more (Thomas Ptacek/Fly)
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
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- The Transformative Influence of LLMs on Software Development & Developer Productivity
Sajed Jalil

zkSDK: Streamlining zero-knowledge proof development through automated trace-driven ZK-backend selection
William Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05294 https…

zkSDK: Streamlining zero-knowledge proof development through automated trace-driven ZK-backend selection
The rapid advancement of creating Zero-Knowledge (ZK) programs has led to the development of numerous tools designed to support developers. Popular options include being able to write in general-purpose programming languages like Rust from Risc Zero. Other languages exist like Circom, Lib-snark, and Cairo. However, developers entering the ZK space are faced with many different ZK backends to choose from, leading to a steep learning curve and a fragmented developer experience across different pl…