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Ten years of React, and new documentation site has framework opinions to share

The React team has released a new documentation site, including recommendations for using “a full stack React framework […]

Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die

Developer Alan Cooper conceived Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) as a “shell construction kit,” according to a new history […]

Polyglot Notebooks fully released for VS Code, with support for multiple languages – not including Python

Microsoft has declared the Polyglot Notebooks extension to Visual Studio Code ready for business, enabling multiple programming languages […]

Docker to users of Free Team orgs: One month to pay up or we freeze account and images go [Updated]

Update on Friday, March 17: Docker has apologized for the way it communicated its scrapping of free accounts […]

AWS previews Mountpoint, a specialized open source Rust client to mount S3 storage into the file system

Interview AWS has introduced Mountpoint, an open source client for Linux that connects to S3 (Simple Storage Service) […]

Tainted PHP code? JetBrains Qodana has a new detection feature

JetBrains has released a taint analysis feature for PHP in preview, via its early access programme. A “taint”, […]

GitHub-extender ZenHub may add GitLab support, claiming platforms are ‘unapproachable’ for non-technical types

ZenHub, which has built its own project management platform on top of GitHub, has enhanced its issue-tracking support. […]

AWS releases Application Composer to make serverless ‘easier’ but initial scope is limited

AWS has fully released Application Composer, a visual designer for serverless applications. First introduced at the re:Invent conference […]

Fly.io CEO says reliability ‘not great’ as platform suffers scaling issues

Fly.io, a platform for easy deployment of container-based applications, is suffering reliability problems following a rapid influx of […]

GitHub Desktop 3.2 adds pull request preview – but is a GUI needed for Git?

GitHub Desktop 3.2 was released last week, including a new “preview your pull request” feature that shows all […]