https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_103

That's so last month.

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/google-sans-code-font-blends-tech-and-history-boost-readability/

Developers can have nice fonts too now.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/07/1121308/gpt-5-is-here-now-what/

Ars Technica[^]:

Proposed guidelines aim to inject badly needed common sense into password hygiene.

Pour one out for mandatory periodic password resets

InfoWorld[^]:

Microsoft’s API management service just passed 10 years, 35,000 customers, and 2 million managed APIs. What have we learned, and what’s in store for the future?

Azure API C-Suite

Dark Reading[^]:

Developers need to do more than scan code and vet software components, and ops should do more than just defend the deployment pipeline.

Bronze Age here we come!

The New Stack[^]:

EDB's VP of database development, Tom Kincaid, reveals his favorite features of the newly released PostgreSQL 17.

The latest version features incremental backup, more reliable replication, expanded JSON support, and more.

Computerworld[^]:

Enterprise partners and investors may reevaluate their relationship with the company as its priorities shift under the new structure.

I’ll take “Things that don’t shock me” for $500.

The New Stack[^]:

Seems like Rust is having a moment.

Venture Beat[^]:

And it can talk to you in Dame Judi Dench’s voice? I’m sold.

Fast Company[^]:

Hopefully it can run Snake.

The Verge[^]:

By buying lots of Google Ads?

The Hacker News[^]:

Well, that seems good.

ZDNET[^]:

All I see around the corner from me is my washing machine.

Fast Company[^]:

It also means Grey’s Anatomy season 45 may feature an all-robot cast.

InfoWorld[^]:

Companies suffer when cloud computing architects are not directly aligned with their business's overall goals.

“Business, business, business, numbers… Is this working?”

NeetCodeIO[^]:

Don’t worry, it’s only micro technical debt

SD Times[^]:

WebDriver BiDi is an evolution of the original WebDriver standard and it incorporates some of the benefits of various other automation tools, most notably, adding bidirectional communication.

BibbiDi-BobbiDi-Boo

Fast Company[^]:

Companies and educators need to start preparing now for quantum computing’s place as a disruptor in the marketplace, or risk falling behind the rapid pace of innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Martin A. Schmidt said during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

Let me guess... A lot of quantum squats and lunges?

VentureBeat[^]:

Microsoft unveiled a suite of new artificial intelligence safety features on Tuesday, aiming to address growing concerns about AI security, privacy, and reliability.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”