Collaborate Disseminate
GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts its expenses amid weakening global market conditions. From a report: The developer firm has eliminated over 100 jobs in… Continue reading GitHub Slashes Its Entire Engineering Team in India
An anonymous reader shares a report: Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by creating a mesh network between Ama… Continue reading Amazon Opens Its Low-Bandwidth, Long-Range Sidewalk Network To Developers
InfoWorld reports that TypeScript 5.0 is smaller, faster, and simpler:
TypeScript 5.0, an update to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release, Microsoft announced March 16. With the upgrade, TypeScript has… Continue reading What’s New in TypeScript 5.0?
Anyone have career advice for this anonymous Slashdot reader?
I’ve had a great career from 1992 to today. I’ve been a front line coder for most of that, but also a team lead, a supervisor, a project manager, a scrum master, etc.. My career has been ma… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases?
By now we’ve all seen articles where the entire copy has been written by ChatGPT. It’s essentially a trope of its own at this point, so we will start out …read more Continue reading How Much Programming Can ChatGPT Really Do?
Alex Ellis: Earlier this month, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an “organisation”, telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a … Continue reading ‘Docker is Deleting Open Source Organisations’
InfoWorld interviews Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research (who is also a pioneer in design patterns, agile methods, and one of the creators of UML).
Here’s some of the highlights:
Q: Let me begin by asking somethin… Continue reading Programming Pioneer Grady Booch on Functional Programming, Web3, and Conscious Machines
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic, Retool’s Ryan Lucas has a nice round-up of how Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its… Continue reading Something Pretty Right: a History of Visual Basic
An anonymous reader shares a report: Socket has found a way to protect developers from npm, GitHub’s insufficiently safe JavaScript package manager, by wrapping it in a security blanket. The npm registry, operated by NPM until the security biz was acqu… Continue reading The NPM Registry’s Safe Word is Socket
Ethereum’s next major software upgrade, which could make crypto’s biggest commercial highway more attractive to investors and developers alike, will take place around April 12. From a report: Called Shanghai, it will let people who pledged their Ether … Continue reading Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade To Enable Withdrawals Set for April