More React, more app-like: GitHub engineer outlines future UI for its DevOps platform

Development Tim Anderson -
A GitHub software engineer has described the past, present and future of UI (user interface) at GitHub, including increasing use of React and reference...

Tailwind CSS 4.0 released with ‘ground-up rewrite’ for faster Rust-powered build

Development Tim Anderson -
Tailwind CSS 4.0 is out, promising up to 5x faster build times, or 100x for incremental builds, as well as new CSS features and...

How should development environments be standardized? Coder report highlights wide variations

Development Tim Anderson -
A new survey of 550 enterprise developers shows there's a wide variation in the extent to which development environments are standardized or cloud-hosted, and...

GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update

DevOps Tim Anderson -
GitHub, a critical service for millions of organizations, suffered 49 minutes or more of Git downtime on January 13th, following a faulty configuration change,...

GitHub debuts limited Copilot free tier in a crowded market

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
GitHub has introduced a free tier for its AI coding assistant, with options for Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI GPT-4o as the model....

Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes to open-source project

Development Tim Anderson -
A fork is in prospect for the well-known DevOps automation tool Puppet, following changes introduced by Perforce, which acquired it in 2022. "We're not forking...

ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter leaves Microsoft, declares forthcoming C++ 26 ‘most impactful release since C++11’

Development Tim Anderson -
Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ ISO C++ committee, has left Microsoft after 22 years, to become technical fellow at Citadel Securities, where...

Gitpod discontinues “journey of experiments, failures and dead-ends” with Kubernetes

Containers Tim Anderson -
Gitpod, which provides containerised development environments, has migrated its service away from Kubernetes in favour of a new home-grown platform called Flex, citing issues...

Kubernetes 1.31 now a ‘truly vendor-neutral platform’ thanks to removal of built-in cloud provider code

DevOps Tim Anderson -
The newly released Kubernetes 1.31 has completed the removal of in-tree cloud provider integrations in what team members described as the "largest migration in...

PyPi repository vulnerable to deleted package hijack, say researchers

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
Security researchers at JFrog report that the PyPi package repository is vulnerable to malware uploaded with the same name as a deleted package, causing...

Microsoft says .NET Aspire is for any app, but deployment can be complex

Development Tim Anderson -
Hands on: Microsoft principal product manager Jon Galloway has said that .NET Aspire, a stack for building distributed applications, can in fact be used...

AWS quietly freezes CodeCommit, Cloud9, SimpleDB and more, customers complain about lack of notice

DevOps Tim Anderson -
AWS appears to be backtracking on its efforts to provide a complete DevOps service to its customers, with the CodeCommit source code repository service now closed to new customers.

React community splitting into full-stack and client-only camps, suggests survey

Development Tim Anderson -
The latest "State of React" survey suggests that while some developers are racing ahead with major recent features like React Server Components, others are...

Executives have more confidence in software supply chain security than their developers

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
A report sponsored by DevOps company JFrog suggests that executives over-estimate the extent to which developers within their organization defend against vulnerable or malicious...

Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do

Development Tim Anderson -
Facebook internal development started out on Subversion with a Git mirror but switched to Mercurial for source code control, achieving what some who worked...

Devs say many of their hours are wasted, disagree with managers on how to fix the issue

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Atlassian, maker of developer collaboration tools, has sponsored new research showing that "misalignment between engineers and their leaders is possibly the leading cause of...




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