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
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…
I wish DoubleBlind would join the Fediverse, where censorship is much less of an issue compared to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
It baffles me that they talk about censorship on major platforms but haven’t moved to the free and open world of the Fediverse yet.
https://doubleblindmag.com
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?
So what I’m hearing is that #Buffalo in the ’80s put on a better military parade.
https://bsky.app/profile/davelevinthal.com/post/3lrlznqpp4c2m
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A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
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AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds
Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.
🤷♂️ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_
Considering my options to evacuate from Vilnius if needed: via Suwalki, Klaipėda or Rīga.
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2589799/baltic-states-to-develop-joint-mass-evacuation-plans
dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection
NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/11/en