2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (283+ words) Microsoft says work on the next two versions of TypeScript is going well, with both TypeScript 6 and 7 on course to appear in early 2026. TypeScript 7.0 is the version that is being rewritten in native code, while TypeScript 6.0 will be the last…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago  (386+ words) Udacity is encouraging us to put the holiday time to good use with a special offer running until the New Year - 40% off across all its programs when you pay in advance." The deal ends on 12/31, so you need to get…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago  (255+ words) This book collects popular essays from the "renowned Cranberry-Lemon University Press's most illustrious scholars". The publisher says diverse authors present their ideas to the world outside of a Substack account with 1-23 followers and a TikTok video. Author, B McGraw, says…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (270+ words) Deno 2.6 has been released with a new tool, dx, that is an equivalent to npx and is a way to run binaries from npm and JSR packages. Deno is built in Rust, and is described as secure by default as…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (508+ words) What if the computer had been invented in the Victorian era? This isn't a silly idea. Charles Babbage was born in the eighteenth century - the age of the Industrial Revolution. The calculating machines he invented, although never fully realized in…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (295+ words) If you've been cursing the sticky tape and searching fruitlessly for the scissors, maybe a robot is the solution.The team behind the Humanoid HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal certainly thinks so. The company has released a tongue in cheek video for…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (254+ words) We all know about the problems with the goto instruction, but after we learned it was harmful what exactly did we do about it? This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind,which explores what it is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (360+ words) Microsoft has deprecated IntelliCode extensions for VS Code in favor of'GitHub Copilot Chat. While this also provides advanced suggestions and inline completions, its free tier is limited to'2,000 suggestions per month, and as Copilot provides a suggestion with every input,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (229+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. This book looks at latency from first principles to production-ready code, and shows…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (417+ words) We're fast approaching Panic Weekend, when those of us who've been trying to forget about the upcoming holidays face up to the reality that the present giving season is happening whether we're ready or not. So if you're still in…...