Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months
Oracle-owned MySQL, whose website claims it to be the “world’s most popular open source database,” has received no […]
Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI
Developer-focused hosting company Fly.io has introduced Sprites, VMs (virtual machines) based on the AWS-sponsored Firecracker which are designed […]
Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to ‘brutal impact’ of AI
Updated: Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan, inventor of the popular open source Tailwind CSS framework, this week confirmed […]
Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers
In another twist to Visual Studio’s long-running designer drought, the near-forgotten XAML Studio has been open sourced – […]
Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready
Ruby 4.0 was released on 25 December, following a tradition of pushing out major versions on Christmas day, […]
Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help
Stack Overflow, long the go-to resource for developers seeking coding help, saw its question volume plummet further in […]
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
GitHub will charge $0.002 per minute for self-hosted runners (used for GitHub Actions) from March 1 2026 – […]
Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers
Anysphere’s Cursor AI editor recently added a visual web designer, but the enhancement has drawn mixed reactions from […]
Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code
Use of the Rust programming language in the Linux kernel is no longer experimental, following a decision at […]
VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the most popular programmer’s editor, with Agent HQ alongside numerous […]