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Cline, which offers an open-source AI coding tool with transparent billing, raised a $27M Series A led by Emergence at a $110M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/20…

AI Coding Tool Cline Has Raised $27 Million To Help Developers Control Their AI Spend
Software developers are often frustrated by obscure pricing plans for the AI coding tools they use. With $27 million in new funding, Cline is developing tools to help them manage their AI bills.

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.

Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

Why Japanese Developers Write Code Completely Differently (And Why It Works Better)
https://medium.com/@sohail_saifi/why-japanese-developers-write-code-completely-differently-and-why-it-works-better-de…

What Challenges Do Developers Face When Using Verification-Aware Programming Languages?
Francisco Oliveira, Alexandra Mendes, Carolina Carreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23696

What Challenges Do Developers Face When Using Verification-Aware Programming Languages?
Software reliability is critical in ensuring that the digital systems we depend on function correctly. In software development, increasing software reliability often involves testing. However, for complex and critical systems, developers can use Design by Contract (DbC) methods to define precise specifications that software components must satisfy. Verification-Aware (VA) programming languages support DbC and formal verification at compile-time or run-time, offering stronger correctness guarant…

The 81st edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we worry about the perils of vibe coding in the minds of new generations of software developers; in the Library section, we review "Geek Sublime" by Vikram Chandra; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a 1986 interview of Grace Hopper at "Late Night with David Letterman".

People Before Profit Galway rep. Maisie McMaster criticises Cllr McDonagh’s suggestion to sell vacant public homes to private developers
More in the Advertiser article here:
https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/1

Wind theft. http://archive.today/2025.04.04-220801/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475172-wind-farm-developers-are-worried-about-neighbours-stealing-their-wind/

Stack Overflow survey: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% in 2024, and 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43% in 2024 (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflo…

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code
Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20 static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
🖌️

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

I can tell things are bad when developers are contacting me for work.
Sadly, I have nothing to offer.

Not quite a piece of CHERI-cake: Are new digital security by design architectures usable?
Maysara Alhindi, Joseph Hallett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23682 …

Not quite a piece of CHERI-cake: Are new digital security by design architectures usable?
A digital security-by-design computer architecture, like CHERI, lets you program without fear of buffer overflows or other memory safety errors, but CHERI also rewrites some of the assumptions about how C works and how fundamental types (such as pointers) are implemented in hardware. We conducted a usability study to examine how developers react to the changes required by CHERI when porting software to run on it. We find that developers struggle with CHERI's display of warnings and errors and a…

X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own "fact-checking" AI agents for review (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/
Microsoft: where incompetence meets malice

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Mansooreh Zahedi, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude, Haoyu Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23234

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Pre-trained models (PTMs) have gained widespread popularity and achieved remarkable success across various fields, driven by their groundbreaking performance and easy accessibility through hosting providers. However, the challenges faced by downstream developers in reusing PTMs in software systems are less explored. To bridge this knowledge gap, we qualitatively created and analyzed a dataset of 840 PTM-related issue reports from 31 OSS GitHub projects. We systematically developed a comprehensi…

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Generative AI assistants have been widely used in front-end programming. However, besides code writing, developers often encounter the need to generate animation effects. As novices in creative design without the assistance of professional designers, developers typically face difficulties in describing, designing, and implementing desired animations. To address this issue, we conducted a formative study (N=6) to identify the challenges that code developers face when dealing with animation desig…

🔆 From SDR to ‘Fake HDR’: Mario Kart World on Switch 2 Undermines Modern Display Potential
https://www.alexandermejia.com/from-sdr-to-fake-hdr-mario-kart-world-on-switch-2-undermines-modern-display-potential/

From SDR to ‘Fake HDR’: Mario Kart World on Switch 2 Undermines Modern Display Potential
Nintendo's Switch 2, launched with Mario Kart World, suffers from inadequate HDR implementation despite industry standards. The game qualifies "fake HDR," using SDR-first methods that limit color and dynamic range. Developers must prioritize HDR from the outset to truly leverage its potential and enhance visual quality, avoiding static tone mapping pitfalls.

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

Google is quite agressive with Gemini CLI , offering 1000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day for individual users. Essentially trying to push Anthropic and OpenAI away.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-age…

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

Madden 26 Gives Raiders Rookie Ashton Jeanty A Strong Start With 83 Rating https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/31/madden-26-gives-raiders-rookie-ashton-jeanty-a-strong-start-with-83-rating/

The Web is dying—replaced by the AI shit that developers are so horny for.
It’s spectacular to watch my entire industry being taking in by charlatans and eagerly rooting for their own demise.

"But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for."
https://www.jon…

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Anaconda, which provides AI development tools for developers and data scientists, raised $150M led by Insight Partners, source says at a $1.5B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/a…

Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ https://www.404media.co/steam-doesnt-think-this-image-is-suitable-for-all-ages/

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

Found a Dojo for junior web developers.

Using SBPF to Accelerate Kernel Memory Access From Userspace
Boming Kong, Zhizhou Zhang, Jonathan Balkind
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22632 https://arxiv.or…

Using SBPF to Accelerate Kernel Memory Access From Userspace
The cost of communication between the operating system kernel and user applications has long blocked improvements in software performance. Traditionally, operating systems encourage software developers to use the system call interface to transfer (or initiate transfer of) data between user applications and the kernel. This approach not only hurts performance at the software level due to memory copies between user space address spaces and kernel space address spaces, it also hurts system perform…

Fair Box ordinate transform for forecasts following a multivariate Gaussian law
S\'andor Baran, Martin Leutbecher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22601 http…

Fair Box ordinate transform for forecasts following a multivariate Gaussian law
Monte Carlo techniques are the method of choice for making probabilistic predictions of an outcome in several disciplines. Usually, the aim is to generate calibrated predictions which are statistically indistinguishable from the outcome. Developers and users of such Monte Carlo predictions are interested in evaluating the degree of calibration of the forecasts. Here, we consider predictions of $p$-dimensional outcomes sampling a multivariate Gaussian distribution and apply the Box ordinate tran…

I‘m afraid I won’t be able to make it to this year’s #CSSDay. 😔 And, looking at the stellar lineup and all the lovely people who will be there, FOMO is already huge! 🥲
Watching the talks remotely might help a bit, but just can’t replace the onsite experience …
ht…

CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam
CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.

DRPAAS: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Digital Rug Pull As A Service, via

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers Blog
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings
Taiming Wang, Hui Liu, Yuxia Zhang, Yanjie Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00413 https…

Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings
Extract local variable is one of the most popular refactorings, and most IDEs and refactoring tools provide automated support for this refactoring. However, we find approximately 70% of the names recommended by these IDEs are different from what developers manually constructed, adding additional renaming burdens to developers and providing limited assistance. In this paper, we introduce VarNamer, an automated approach designed to recommend variable names for extract local variable refactorings.…

> If you take away just one thing from this study, it should probably be this: when people report that AI has accelerated their work, they might be wrong!
https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown?hide_intro_popup=true&utm_source=unknown…

X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own "fact-checking" AI agents for review (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23253 https://

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
We examine "vibe coding": an emergent programming paradigm where developers primarily write code by interacting with code-generating large language models rather than writing code directly. We analysed a curated set of videos depicting extended vibe coding sessions with rich think-aloud reflections. Using framework analysis, we investigated programmers' goals, workflows, prompting techniques, debugging approaches, and challenges encountered. We find that vibe coding follows iterative goal satis…

Threadbox: Sandboxing for Modular Security
Maysara Alhindi, Joseph Hallett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23683 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Threadbox: Sandboxing for Modular Security
There are many sandboxing mechanisms provided by operating systems to limit what resources applications can access, however, sometimes the use of these mechanisms requires developers to refactor their code to fit the sandboxing model. In this work, we investigate what makes existing sandboxing mechanisms challenging to apply to certain types of applications, and propose Threadbox, a sandboxing mechanism that enables having modular and independent sandboxes, and can be applied to threads and san…

Looks like the Goo.gl link shortener dies next month. A reminder of why link shorteners are a bad idea.
(Also note that ".ly" is owned by the country of Libya. Maybe not the most stable place to park your content behind as well).
https://developers.googleblog.co…

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers Blog
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build "real-world" apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/01/subzero-labs-seed-r…

Subzero Labs raises $20 million to build a blockchain for the ‘real world’
Pantera Capital led the fundraise, with participation from Variant, Coinbase Ventures, and Susquehanna Crypto.

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Sardar Fatooreh Bonabi, Sarah Bana, Tingting Nian, Vijay Gurbaxani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22704

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to significantly impact software development, especially in the Open-Source Software (OSS) sector. To understand this impact, we first outline the mechanisms through which LLMs may influence OSS through code development, collaborative knowledge transfer, and skill development. We then empirically examine how LLMs affect OSS developers' work in these three key areas. Leveraging a natural experiment from a temporary ChatGPT ban in Italy, we employ a Differe…

Microsoft is now allowing developers to sign up for a private preview of what it calls the Windows Update orchestration platform, that will enable Windows Update to support any update for apps or drivers in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/micro

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps
Microsoft is starting to open up Windows Update to third-party apps. A new preview is designed to let any app developer use Windows Update.

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.

Developers need side projects like fish need bicycles. 🐟 🚲
#programming #life

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic
Lujain Ibrahim, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Luc Rocher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic
Artificial intelligence (AI) developers are increasingly building language models with warm and empathetic personas that millions of people now use for advice, therapy, and companionship. Here, we show how this creates a significant trade-off: optimizing language models for warmth undermines their reliability, especially when users express vulnerability. We conducted controlled experiments on five language models of varying sizes and architectures, training them to produce warmer, more empathet…

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
Umar Siddiqui, Habiba Youssef, Adel Sabour, Mohamed Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22384

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
With the widespread of software systems and applications that serve the Islamic knowledge domain, several concerns arise. Authenticity and accuracy of the databases that back up these systems are questionable. With the excitement that some software developers and amateur researchers may have, false statements and incorrect claims may be made around numerical signs or miracles in the Quran. Reproducibility of these claims may not be addressed by the people making such claims. Moreover, with the …

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…

North Korean hackers target open-source repositories in new espionage campaign https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-targeting-open-source-repositories

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

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

Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

Huch, Quer (BR) nutzt in einem Beitrag nicht GoogleMaps, sondern Maptiler (OpenStreetMap) (#openstreetmap

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…

#Git has become a fundamental part of our developers' daily routine that it’s hard to remember our lives without it. And yet, most of us use a limited set of commands and options. Today, I want to focus on two commands most developers probably use every day and look at the defaults behind them.

gMBA: Expression Semantic Guided Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Deobfuscation Using Transformer Architectures
Youjeong Noh, Joon-Young Paik, Jingun Kwon, Eun-Sun Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23634

gMBA: Expression Semantic Guided Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Deobfuscation Using Transformer Architectures
Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation protects intellectual property by converting programs into forms that are more complex to analyze. However, MBA has been increasingly exploited by malware developers to evade detection and cause significant real-world problems. Traditional MBA deobfuscation methods often consider these expressions as part of a black box and overlook their internal semantic information. To bridge this gap, we propose a truth table, which is an automatically constructed …

GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
Nora Graves, Vitus Larrieu, Yingyue Trace Zhang, Joanne Peng, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Yuhan Liu, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24107

GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
With the growth of AI, researchers are studying how to mitigate its environmental impact, primarily by proposing policy changes and increasing awareness among developers. However, research on AI end users is limited. Therefore, we introduce GPTFootprint, a browser extension that aims to increase consumer awareness of the significant water and energy consumption of LLMs, and reduce unnecessary LLM usage. GPTFootprint displays a dynamically updating visualization of the resources individual users…

I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.

Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. | Adrian Cockcroft
Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. I took some time away from it but last week I continued cleaning up the code. The app was working for me but Claude had built over 200 tests, unit tests and UI automation tests and I spent a day focused on getting them all to work, which found a few issues in the app code. Claude isn’t as good at writing Swift as Python (which tends to work first time) but when the compile failures and test error logs are passed back to it, it d…

Assessing the Ecological Impact of AI
Sylvia Wenmackers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21102

Assessing the Ecological Impact of AI
Philosophers of technology have recently started paying more attention to the environmental impacts of AI, in particular of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (genAI) applications. Meanwhile, few developers of AI give concrete estimates of the ecological impact of their models and products, and even when they do so, their analysis is often limited to green house gas emissions of certain stages of AI development or use. The current proposal encourages practically viable analyses of t…

BREAKING: New Mike Lee Amendment to sell off public lands has been approved to be part of Trump's Big Beautiful Mess.
Senators like Steve Daines will be voting on this bill at any moment and we need to let them know loud and clear that we strongly oppose the sale of ANY of our public lands.
This land belongs to us, and greedy billionaire developers can't have it.
Add your name to make your voice heard:

Tell Republicans to vote NO on selling our Public Lands »

Die britische Regierung hebt den maximalen Vergütungspreis für neue #Windenergie-Projekte an, um Investitionen in #ErneuerbareEnergien zu fördern und das Ziel eines nahezu fossilfreien Stromnetzes bis 2030 zu erreichen.
Offshore-Wind darf künftig bis zu £113/MWh kosten, Floatin…

Government raises maximum guaranteed price for wind energy
The government increases the maximum price it will guarantee wind farm developers for electricity.

Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that allows developers to interact with the Gemini 2.5 LLM from their terminals and integrate its output into their activities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/google-unveils-gemini-cli-…

Google unveils Gemini CLI AI tool for coders
Takes on Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI.

AI coding service Replit Wiped Production Database, Faked Data to Cover Bugs, SaaStr Founder Says - Slashdot
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/21/1338204/replit-wiped-production-database-faked-data-to-cover-bugs-saastr-founder-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Dissecting RISC-V Performance: Practical PMU Profiling and Hardware-Agnostic Roofline Analysis on Emerging Platforms
Alexander Batashev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22451 https://…

Dissecting RISC-V Performance: Practical PMU Profiling and Hardware-Agnostic Roofline Analysis on Emerging Platforms
As RISC-V architectures proliferate across embedded and high-performance domains, developers face persistent challenges in performance optimization due to fragmented tooling, immature hardware features, and platform-specific defects. This paper delivers a pragmatic methodology for extracting actionable performance insights on RISC-V systems, even under constrained or unreliable hardware conditions. We present a workaround to circumvent hardware bugs in one of the popular RISC-V implementations,…

Using Containers to Speed Up Development, to Run Integration Tests and to Teach About Distributed Systems
Marco Mambelli, Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Namratha Urs, Ilya Baburashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21464

Using Containers to Speed Up Development, to Run Integration Tests and to Teach About Distributed Systems
GlideinWMS is a workload manager provisioning resources for many experiments, including CMS and DUNE. The software is distributed both as native packages and specialized production containers. Following an approach used in other communities like web development, we built our workspaces, system-like containers to ease development and testing. Developers can change the source tree or check out a different branch and quickly reconfigure the services to see the effect of their changes. In this pape…

"The best time to hire senior developers is three years before they're senior developers"
@…
💯
https://ruby.social/@alexanderadam/114

A mindbogglingly stupid study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

Bug Fixing with Broader Context: Enhancing LLM-Based Program Repair via Layered Knowledge Injection
Ramtin Ehsani, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24015

Bug Fixing with Broader Context: Enhancing LLM-Based Program Repair via Layered Knowledge Injection
Prompting LLMs with bug-related context (e.g., error messages, stack traces) improves automated program repair, but many bugs still remain unresolved. In real-world projects, developers often rely on broader repository and project-level context beyond the local code to resolve such bugs. In this paper, we investigate how automatically extracting and providing such knowledge can improve LLM-based program repair. We propose a layered knowledge injection framework that incrementally augments LLMs …

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, priced at $0.04 per image or $0.06 for "Ultra" mode that "precisely" follows user instructions (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/i

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio- Google Developers Blog
Explore Imagen 4, Google's advanced text-to-image model, now in paid preview via Gemini API and Google AI Studio, offering improved text generation.

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
Zoe Anastasiadou, Andreas Lanitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22932

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
The increase of the percentage of elderly population in modern societies dictates the use of emerging technologies as a means of supporting elder members of the society. Within this scope, Extended Reality (XR) technologies pose as a promising technology for improving the daily lives of the elderly population. This paper presents a literature review that describes the most common characteristics of the physical and mental state of the elderly, allowing readers, and specifically XR developers, t…

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Determining Absence of Unreasonable Risk: Approval Guidelines for an Automated Driving System Deployment
This paper provides an overview of how the determination of absence of unreasonable risk can be operationalized. It complements previous theoretical work published by existing developers of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) on the overall engineering practices and methodologies for readiness determination. Readiness determination is, at its core, a risk assessment process. It is aimed at evaluating the residual risk associated with a new deployment. The paper proposes methodological criteria to g…

The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDK (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2…

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

This review is about Writing for Developers by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop from Manning.
I started this blog as a hobby 17 years ago, in April 2008. At the time, I had no clue about technical writing.Since then, the landscape has changed a lot, to the point that companies hire for technical writer positions.
I was curious to compare what I learned by doing to the structured approach of a book. Here’s my review.

"Maybe We Need Some More Examples:" Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLine, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna L. Butler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280

"Maybe We Need Some More Examples:" Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Despite the widespread availability of generative AI tools in software engineering, developer adoption remains uneven. This unevenness is problematic because it hampers productivity efforts, frustrates management's expectations, and creates uncertainty around the future roles of developers. Through paired interviews with 54 developers across 27 teams -- one frequent and one infrequent user per team -- we demonstrate that differences in usage result primarily from how developers perceive the too…

Conversational Alignment with Artificial Intelligence in Context
Rachel Katharine Sterken (University of Hong Kong), James Ravi Kirkpatrick (University of Oxford,Magdalen College, Oxford)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22907

Conversational Alignment with Artificial Intelligence in Context
The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative norms and practices for handling context and common ground and proposes a new framework for evaluating developers' design choices. We begin by drawing on th…

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…

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

Echoes of AI: Investigating the Downstream Effects of AI Assistants on Software Maintainability
Markus Borg, Dave Hewett, Nadim Hagatulah, Noric Couderc, Emma S\"oderberg, Donald Graham, Uttam Kini, Dave Farley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00788

Echoes of AI: Investigating the Downstream Effects of AI Assistants on Software Maintainability
[Context] AI assistants, like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, are transforming software engineering. While several studies highlight productivity improvements, their impact on maintainability requires further investigation. [Objective] This study investigates whether co-development with AI assistants affects software maintainability, specifically how easily other developers can evolve the resulting source code. [Method] We conducted a two-phase controlled experiment involving 151 participants, 95% o…

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Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development
Despite the utility that Generative AI (GenAI) tools provide for tasks such as writing code, the use of these tools raises important legal questions and potential risks, particularly those associated with copyright law. As lawmakers and regulators engage with those questions, the views of users can provide relevant perspectives. In this paper, we provide: (1) a survey of 574 developers on the licensing and copyright aspects of GenAI for coding, as well as follow-up interviews; (2) a snapshot of…

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713676/brave-adguard-windows-recall-block-micr…

Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now blocked by Brave and AdGuard
App developers are starting to block access to Windows Recall. AdGuard, Signal, and Brave aren’t fans of Microsoft’s AI tool.

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What Needs Attention? Prioritizing Drivers of Developers' Trust and Adoption of Generative AI
Generative AI (genAI) tools are advertised as productivity aids. Yet, issues related to miscalibrated trust and usage friction continue to hinder their adoption. Additionally, AI can be exclusionary, failing to support diverse users adequately, further exacerbating these concerns. One such aspect of diversity is cognitive diversity -- variations in users' cognitive styles -- that leads to divergence in interaction styles. When an individual's cognitive styles are unsupported, it creates additio…

How #Quarkus works with #OpenTelemetry on #OpenShift

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02381 has been replaced.
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What Should Be Considered to Support well-being with AI: Considerations Based on Responsible Research and Innovation
To achieve people's well-being with AI systems, we should enable each user to be guided to a healthier lifestyle in a way that is appropriate for her or him. However, there is a dilemma between general well-being as defined in academic and medical discussions and the autonomy users should have when deciding how to promote their well-being. In this position paper, we discuss the difficulty for AI application developers to fully consider in the design phase what might happen to the user, taking a…

Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission (Anupriya Datta/Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news

How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/arts/video-games-artificial-intelligen…

The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games
Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.

Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories
Amir Hossain Raaj, Fairuz Nawer Meem, Sadia Afrin Mim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18982 https://arxiv.…

Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories
GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community. Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties. Having labels on those issues can help developers easily address those issues with prior knowledge of labels. However, most of the GitHub repositories do not maintain regular labeling for the issues. The goal of this work is to classify issues in the open-source community using ML \& DNN models. There are thousands of open…

Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open-source, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview (David Uzondu/Neowin)
https://www.neowin.net/news/google-releases-gemma-3n-…

Google releases Gemma 3n, a new AI model built for mobile devices
Last month, Google previewed Gemma 3n, an AI model optimized for mobile. Now, it's officially available for developers to test and build with.

Automated Code Review Using Large Language Models at Ericsson: An Experience Report
Shweta Ramesh, Joy Bose, Hamender Singh, A K Raghavan, Sujoy Roychowdhury, Giriprasad Sridhara, Nishrith Saini, Ricardo Britto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19115

Automated Code Review Using Large Language Models at Ericsson: An Experience Report
Code review is one of the primary means of assuring the quality of released software along with testing and static analysis. However, code review requires experienced developers who may not always have the time to perform an in-depth review of code. Thus, automating code review can help alleviate the cognitive burden on experienced software developers allowing them to focus on their primary activities of writing code to add new features and fix bugs. In this paper, we describe our experience in…

Developers criticize Google for its decision to hide raw reasoning tokens, essential for debugging complex AI workflows, of its flagship model Gemini 2.5 Pro (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-gemin…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests by connecting Gemini models to local codebases in terminals (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/google-unveil…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals | TechCrunch
Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

How Developers Use AI Agents: When They Work, When They Don't, and Why
Aayush Kumar, Yasharth Bajpai, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares, Emerson Murphy-Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12347

How Developers Use AI Agents: When They Work, When They Don't, and Why
Software Engineering Agents (SWE agents) can autonomously perform development tasks on benchmarks like SWE Bench, but still face challenges when tackling complex and ambiguous real-world tasks. Consequently, SWE agents are often designed to allow interactivity with developers, enabling collaborative problem-solving. To understand how developers collaborate with SWE agents and the communication challenges that arise in such interactions, we observed 19 developers using an in-IDE agent to resolve…

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

A Tool for Generating Exceptional Behavior Tests With Large Language Models
Linghan Zhong, Samuel Yuan, Jiyang Zhang, Yu Liu, Pengyu Nie, Junyi Jessy Li, Milos Gligoric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22818

A Tool for Generating Exceptional Behavior Tests With Large Language Models
Exceptional behavior tests (EBTs) are crucial in software development for verifying that code correctly handles unwanted events and throws appropriate exceptions. However, prior research has shown that developers often prioritize testing "happy paths", e.g., paths without unwanted events over exceptional scenarios. We present exLong, a framework that automatically generates EBTs to address this gap. exLong leverages a large language model (LLM) fine-tuned from CodeLlama and incorporates reasoni…

Visualizing Cloud-native Applications with KubeDiagrams
Philippe Merle, Fabio Petrillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22879 https://arxiv…

Visualizing Cloud-native Applications with KubeDiagrams
Modern distributed applications increasingly rely on cloud-native platforms to abstract the complexity of deployment and scalability. As the de facto orchestration standard, Kubernetes enables this abstraction, but its declarative configuration model makes the architectural understanding difficult. Developers, operators, and architects struggle to form accurate mental models from raw manifests, Helm charts, or cluster state descriptions. We introduce KubeDiagrams, an open-source tool that trans…

Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/apple-broadens-app-stores-age-rating-system/…

Apple broadens App Store's age rating system | TechCrunch
Apple has expanded its age rating system to include 13+, 16+, and 18+ ratings, in addition to the existing ratings for younger users.

OSS-UAgent: An Agent-based Usability Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software
Lingkai Meng, Yu Shao, Long Yuan, Longbin Lai, Peng Cheng, Wenyuan Yu, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jingren Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23239

OSS-UAgent: An Agent-based Usability Evaluation Framework for Open Source Software
Usability evaluation is critical to the impact and adoption of open source software (OSS), yet traditional methods relying on human evaluators suffer from high costs and limited scalability. To address these limitations, we introduce OSS-UAgent, an automated, configurable, and interactive agent-based usability evaluation framework specifically designed for open source software. Our framework employs intelligent agents powered by large language models (LLMs) to simulate developers performing pro…

Apple announces the Foundation Models framework, giving developers direct access to its on-device AI models for the first time (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/foundation-models-framework/

Apple Announces Foundation Models Framework for Developers to Leverage AI
Apple at WWDC today announced Foundation Models Framework, a new API allowing third-party developers to leverage the large language models at the...

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…