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Pragtical v3.14.0, the Lua-based text editor's latest release, adds application menus and a toolbar, flexible placement of command prompts and project search, floating views, workspace session management, a refreshed Plugin Manager and lower idle CPU usage, plus a long list of fixes since v3.13.1.
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Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models
Cloudflare previews Clairic, a System One-style extraction model on Workers AI that extracts, computes, estimates and forecasts values from unstructured text and images with higher accuracy, lower latency and lower cost than general LLMs, with worked examples, how requests work, and plans to release open weights.
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Setting up SSH keys on macOS with Touch ID
Nicolas Mattia shows a three-command way to create an SSH identity in the Mac Secure Enclave, protected by Touch ID and usable with GitHub, with no private key files on disk. He then digs into what sc_auth, CryptoTokenKit and Apple's ssh-keychain.dylib are actually doing, and where the documentation runs out.
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Notify Me About This Session, Not All Sessions
Cmd+Ctrl explains per-session phone notifications for AI coding agents: pick the one or two sessions that may ping your phone, and keep the rest quiet when you are running many agent sessions.
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Superlite: hand an agent a spec, come back to tested work
Context First introduces Superlite, a lighter alternative to Superpowers-style agent workflows: hand an agent a clear spec and return to tested work rather than babysitting every step.
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Son Luong Ngoc of BuildBuddy recaps BazelCon 26: hallway debates about deleting tests, why coding agents make CI history a blind spot for measuring tests, Uber's presence as a sign of a war for build talent, Meta's Buck2 configuration modifiers and Muse agent, and BuildBuddy's small team.
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Gavin Anderegg digs into a mysterious /pkg/env/global/bin entry that macOS 27.0 adds to PATH via /etc/paths.d, explaining path_helper background and what is and isn't known about the new root-level /pkg directory.
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Interactive refactoring in gopls
The Go team introduces interactive refactoring in gopls, built on a new Language Server Protocol capability designed with the Dart team as an open standard, which lets refactorings run as dynamic multi-step dialogs inside any editor. The post explains the LSP background, walks through example refactorings, and outlines what comes next and how to give feedback.
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October 15, 2026 by Lee Murray VS Code has changed a lot since its first preview in 2015. Tabs, themes, and new ways to organize your work have made it more capable, but over a decade of adding and refining features has also introduced visual complexity and inconsistencies across the workbench.
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Forgejo announces version 17.0 of the community-driven Git forge, covering notable changes, upgrade notes and release artifacts for self-hosted teams that want an open alternative to proprietary code hosts.
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How Codex HappenedInside OpenAI's comeback in coding, from a failed launch to the app that took over ChatGPT
Dan Shipper's longform traces how OpenAI's Codex went from a rocky coding-agent launch to a dedicated model line and desktop app, growing past 5 million weekly users by June 2026 before merging into ChatGPT—and how Codex and ChatGPT for Work together reached about 40 million weekly active users.
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GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles in public preview
GitHub Actions workflow dependency lockfiles are in public preview: the gh actions-lock CLI extension pins actions, transitive and reusable-workflow dependencies to reviewed commits in .github/workflows/actions.lock, with an optional Require lockfile policy and Dependabot keeping lockfile entries in sync.
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Anthropic’s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
A former Mononoke engineer compares Anthropic's description of 'derived data' in its new Scion version control system with how Meta's open-source Mononoke source control server used the same idea years earlier, and argues that Anthropic should have credited Mononoke as prior art.
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E2exe: How we solved Windows desktop automation for enterprise scale
QA Wolf explains how it parallelizes Windows desktop app tests at scale: single-use VMs from warm pools on Google Compute Engine, driven from Linux over CDP and Appium, with one API across web, mobile and desktop.
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Package managers have an integrity problem
Trail of Bits tested 25 popular package managers to see whether they detect a compromised registry injecting malicious code into legitimate packages; fewer than half used tamper-checking lockfiles by default and only two verified every package.
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Tanner Linsley announces TanStack Start 1.0 as production-stable: type-safe full-stack routing for React and Solid, Vite 8, migration notes from RC, and how AI changed Start’s development and contribution load.
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Inside Slipstream’s Recall Pattern
Glide’s engineering team explains Slipstream’s recall pattern for handing six types of rote engineering maintenance work to AI agents: how issues are detected, recalled into agent workflows, verified, and measured, with the numbers they are seeing in production.
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Astral announces an experimental integration between its uv package manager and ty type checker, adding first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor and a unified uv check command, as a step toward an integrated Astral toolchain.
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Positron October Release Highlights
Positron is Posit’s new, next-generation IDE for data science. Positron is designed to be an extensible, polyglot tool for exploring data and reproducible authoring in Python, R, and more.
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I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn’t Notice
Roberto Aranda removed every comment, about 168,000 lines, from the OpenStation codebase and had an AI coding agent build the same features on both versions three times each; the code was just as good either way, and he shares the method, results, caveats and data.
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