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15 years ago, I started my first open source project on GitHub. Originally it was called NSAttributedString-Additions-for-HTML but later I renamed it to DTCoreText. I had switched to maintenance mode 8 years ago, because I had no interest in putting more work into an Objective-C code base. Besides of the old language there were too many dependencies into even more Objective-C frameworks, namely DTFoundation which held the libxml2-based parser which is used by DTCoreText and many workarounds for compiling on older operating systems from a time before ARC. So for the past decade this book was closed for me. I…

Driven by a desire to break free from walled gardens, many hardware hackers have designed their own smartwatches. Instead of proprietary hardware and software platforms, these devices typically use highly accessible components like ESP32 microcontrollers and custom-built firmware. So far, so good; however, commercial smartwatches still beat them in one very important way — durability. DIY solutions don’t hold up well (or at all) to the conditions — like rain — that we regularly run into in our everyday lives. This factor alone makes homebrew smartwatches more of a toy than anything practical.But now, there is a new smartwatch developed…

Several years ago, Huawei unveiled a watch that housed earbuds inside it and released a fancy ProCollector’s Edition of the Watch GT 3. Today brings something similar. The Huawei Watch Buds 2 refines the design of the original with a slightly slimmer (14.7mm vs. 15.0mm) and lighter (54.5 vs. 66.5g) build. It does this by dropping the stainless steel frame in favor of a titanium alloy. The back is made of skin-friendly fiber-reinforced composite material. The Huawei Watch Buds 2 is a smartwatch and TWS buds case in one The watch measures 47mm across and is suitable for 140-210mm wrists.…

A separate project, Agent Evals, was announced to enable the reliable shipping of agents. This project was born out of internal experience where agents were found to be non-deterministic, creating a strong need for reliability and confidence. Agent Evals provides tooling to benchmark agents by leveraging open standards like OpenTelemetry. It collects real-time metrics and tracing as the agent runs to score performance and inference quality, producing a report that helps users understand their agent’s reliability. This assessment is crucial for determining the level of human intervention required, whether fully autonomous, human-in-the-loop, or human-outer-loop. Agent Evals works in conjunction with other observability tools that support OpenTelemetry…

If, like me, you’ve spent hours comparing CloudFormation and Terraform without finding a clear winner, you’re not alone. Both are mature, battle-tested infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools that have become deeply embedded in enterprise workflows. Each brings its own strengths, trade-offs, and loyal following. Yet their philosophies differ. Terraform is built for openness and flexibility, with a community that thrives on experimentation and a provider ecosystem that seems to grow by the week. CloudFormation, on the other hand, stays firmly rooted in the AWS world. It offers deep integration, built-in governance, and a level of predictability that many teams trust for critical…

How ‘proof of human’ works Billed as the infrastructure for the age of AI, World ID was co-founded by Altman and Alex Blania, and is being developed by technology company Tools for Humanity, whose iris imaging technology seeks to eliminate the need to provide emails, photos, or other personal details to prove identity. World ID’s mission is to provide “proof of human” (POH), so that people know they are in fact interacting with another human being (or a bot on behalf of a verified human), rather than a deepfake or other unknown entity. The ideal is to reduce abuse, impersonation,…

In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Bensalem. At its heart stands Salomon’s House, an institution devoted to “the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things” and to “the effecting of all things possible.” The novel captured Bacon’s vision of a science built on skepticism and empiricism and his belief that understanding and creating were one and the same pursuit. No mere scholar’s study filled with curiosities, Salomon’s…

If you’ve been following the news, you might have learned about Iranian drone and missile strikes on three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, which caused a severe, cascading impact on AWS and its customers. Because the attacks caused physical damage to multiple infrastructure sites simultaneously, standard cloud redundancy models failed, leading to widespread regional and global disruptions.

Did you know?As per current data 69% of professionals believe that AI is disrupting their job roles.  However, instead of fear, there is immense optimism; an overwhelming 78% are positive about AI’s potential impact on their careers.  As the demand for artificial intelligence surges globally, many aspiring professionals wonder exactly how much programming expertise is needed to enter this lucrative field.  Do you need to be a coding prodigy to succeed, or are there alternative, low-code pathways? Understanding the basic architecture behind AI and what is LLM (Large Language Model) infrastructure versus general machine learning, is your first crucial step. …

Developers use Claude Code as an enhanced autocomplete system. They open a file, type a prompt, and hope for the best. The system produces decent output which sometimes reaches great quality. The output exhibits inconsistent results. The system loses track of context and repeats its initial errors.  The solution needs a more organized project, not an extended prompt.   This article showcases a project structure which develops into an AI-powered system used for incident response, that follows Claude Code’s best practices.  The Lie Most AI Developers Believe The most significant misunderstanding that developers have with AI today is:  “Simply use an…