Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a rot at the heart of modern software development that’s destroying innovation, and infosec legend Moxie Marlinspike believes he knows exactly what’s to blame: Agile development. Marlinspike argued that Agile methodologies, widely adopted over … Continue reading Agile is Killing Software Innovation, Says Moxie Marlinspike
Asteroids, the late-70s arcade hit, was an immensely popular game. Often those with the simplest premise, while maintaining a fun, lighthearted gameplay have the most cultural impact and longest legacy. …read more Continue reading Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition
America’s Defense Department has launched a project “that aims to develop machine-learning tools that can automate the conversion of legacy C code into Rust,” reports the Register — with an online event already scheduled later this month for thos… Continue reading DARPA Wants to Automatically Transpile C Code Into Rust – Using AI
Stack Overflow says over 65,000 developers took their annual survey — and “For the first time this year, we asked if developers felt AI was a threat to their job…”
Some analysis from The New Stack:
Unsurprisingly, only 12% of surveyed develo… Continue reading Coders Don’t Fear AI, Reports Stack Overflow’s Massive 2024 Survey
Researchers at Check Point have uncovered a clandestine network of approximately 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub, manipulating the platform to promote malicious content. Since June 2023, a cybercriminal dubbed “Stargazer Goblin” has been exploiting Gi… Continue reading A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub
Developer and librarian Misty De Meo, writing about her frustrating experience using GitHub: To me, one of GitHub’s killer power user features is its blame view. git blame on the commandline is useful but hard to read; it’s not the interface I reach fo… Continue reading ‘GitHub Is Starting To Feel Like Legacy Software’
Suppose you decide you want to become a novelist. You enroll in the Hackaday Famous Novelists School where your instructor announces that since all truly great novels are written in …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Should We Teach BASIC?
The demand for software developers has declined sharply from the peak seen in 2021 and 2022, according to independent analysis by job portal Indeed and research firm ADP, reflecting a broader slowdown in high-paying white-collar job opportunities acros… Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Software Developer Jobs
GitLab, a U.S. provider of cloud-based software development tools whose investors include Google parent Alphabet, is exploring a sale after attracting acquisition interest, Reuters is reporting. From the report: GitLab, which has a market value of abou… Continue reading GitLab Explores Sale
An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld:
Rust has leaped to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity, scaling to the 13th spot this month, with placement in the top 10 anticipated in an upcoming edition… Continue reading Rust Leaps Forward on Language Popularity Index