Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Austin Harris
The 2025 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow gathered input from over 49,000 developers in 177 countries. The survey covered 62 questions on 314 technologies, with new focus areas including AI agent tools, large language models (LLMs), and developer community platforms. Now in its fifteenth year, it provides a broad look at the state of software development worldwide.
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Meet the people coding a more sustainable world
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Around the world, developers are finding innovative ways to address sustainability and environmental challenges through technology. Mobile apps and games are no longer limited to entertainment or productivity - they are also becoming tools for education, conservation, and the creation of new career paths in the green economy. A recent #WeArePlay feature showcased a grou...
Jules coding agent from Google now available
Friday, August 22, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Google has officially launched Jules, an autonomous asynchronous coding agent, for general availability. Previously in beta, Jules is now accessible globally anywhere the Gemini model is available, with no waitlist. Jules is powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro and was first introduced in December 2024 via Google Labs as a preview of what a fully autonomous coding agent could beco...
Error-correcting code named Rosetta stone of quantum computing lands
Thursday, August 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
Research recently published in Nature Physics demonstrates this as a physical reality, tapping into the natural oscillations of a trapped ion (a charged atom of ytterbium) to store GKP codes and, for the first time, realising quantum entangling gates between them.
Led by Sydney Horizon Fellow Dr Tingrei Tan at the University of Sydney Nano Institute, scientists have ...
Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Coder
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Austin Harris
Alibaba has launched Qwen3-Coder, its most powerful and agentic code model to date. The flagship version, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, is a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active parameters. It supports a 256K token context natively and up to 1M tokens via extrapolation, achieving state-of-the-art results in Agentic Coding, Browser Use, and Tool Use,...
GitHub Copilot surpasses 20M users
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Microsoft Corporation wrapped up its fiscal year 2025 on an exceptionally strong note, delivering robust growth across cloud, AI, productivity, and consumer services. The tech giant reported a 24% year-over-year jump in net income for the fourth quarter, amounting to $27.2 billion, while revenue for the same period reached $76.4 billion, an 18% increase. These results u...
Wayback 0.1 released
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The development team behind Wayback has announced the first preview release of version 0.1, marking a significant milestone in its journey toward becoming a full Xorg replacement. Wayback is a compatibility layer for X11 that enables the operation of traditional, X11-only desktop environments under Wayland. Functioning as an X11 server backed by Wayland, it leverages wl...
New Xbox certificates and courses on Coursera
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
As part of a broader Microsoft initiative to expand access to in-demand tech training, Xbox has partnered with Coursera to launch online programs that help learners explore creative and technical roles in gaming. Whether someone is switching industries or just starting out, these flexible programs cover everything from graphic design and product management to AI-assiste...
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Greptile
Thursday, July 31, 2025 by Richard Harris
Greptile, the provider of AI-powered code review solutions, recently announced its vision for transforming software development through artificial intelligence (AI) developer tools, emphasizing the growing necessity of integrating these technologies into modern development workflows to improve code quality.
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Grep...
From SNL to software
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 by Richard Harris
John Krewson is the founder and CEO of Sketch Development Services, a St. Louis-based consultancy known for helping companies simplify the complex process of delivering software. With a background that spans software development, project management, and leadership, plus a surprising past in entertainment, including a brief appearance on Saturday Night Live, Krewson...
Llama Startup Program Cohort
Saturday, July 26, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Meta recently announced the first cohort of its Llama Startup Program following overwhelming interest and over 1,000 applications. After a careful selection process, Meta chose an innovative group of early-stage startups representing diverse industries, including healthcare, marketing, finance, legal, software, sports, and more. Despite the wide range of use cases, all ...
Jack Dorsey unveils Sun Day
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Austin Harris
Jack Dorsey, known globally as the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has been on a creative tear lately, launching back-to-back experimental apps. The latest addition to his portfolio is Sun Day, a simple yet intriguing app aimed at helping users track their sun exposure, monitor UV levels, and estimate vitamin D synthesis, all from their smartphones.
Available...
McDonalds AI Hiring Bot Breach
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Security researchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in McDonald’s AI-powered hiring system, McHire, revealing how a simple password flaw could have exposed applicant data, but importantly, no candidate information was leaked or made publicly available, and only five records were briefly accessed by researchers who responsibly reported the issue.
In a supers...
OpenAI Codex overview
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Austin Harris
OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories.
OpenAI Codex overvie...
2025 Swift Student Challenge winners
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Apple recently spotlighted four young developers among the 350 global winners of its 2025 Swift Student Challenge, an initiative that empowers students to explore the power of coding through creative app playgrounds. Representing the next generation of innovation and driven by personal experiences and local challenges, the selected Distinguished Winners - Taiki Hamamoto...
Microsoft Dev Drive launched for developers
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the launch of Dev Drive, a new storage volume designed to meet the performance, security, and control needs of developers. Built on the Resilient File System (ReFS) and combined with a new performance mode capability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Dev Drive delivers up to 30% faster build times compared to the current Windows 11 (22H2) configur...
Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development.
Swift Project Launches Android Wo...
How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack.
The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...
Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers terminals
Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals with unmatched access for individuals. For developers, the command line interface (CLI) is not just a tool; it is home. The terminal’s efficiency, ubiquity, and portability make it the go-to utility for getting work done. As developers' reliance on the terminal endures, so...
Top 3 Google IO announcements
Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Richard Harris
Google Play remains committed to helping people discover experiences they love, while empowering developers to bring ideas to life and build successful businesses. This year’s Google I/O event featured a wide range of announcements aimed at advancing those goals. For a full overview of everything shared, developers and users can visit the blog post recapping What&...
20 AI tools every developer should be using right now
Saturday, July 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
"Reports of my job’s death are greatly exaggerated." If you’re a developer in 2025, you might feel a bit like Mark Twain updating that famous quip for the AI age. The tech world is buzzing with artificial intelligence that can write code, catch bugs, and even predict what you’re going to type next. It’s equal parts exciting an...
Expanding AI by developers revealed in new survey
Monday, July 7, 2025 by Richard Harris
Expanding AI use has become the number one priority for technology leaders, with 73% identifying it as their primary focus in 2025, according to part two of the 2025 Reveal Software Development Challenges Survey of 250 technology leaders, released today by Infragistics. The data shows widespread momentum: 75% of organizations already leveraged AI for software creation i...
Google Cloud and Somnia bring AI to gaming and game development
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 by Austin Harris
Somnia, the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain supported by a $270m fund and designed for reactive, fully on-chain applications in gaming and entertainment, recently announced a collaboration with Google Cloud.
This collaboration integrates Google Cloud's sophisticated technical infrastructure, AI agent development platform and frameworks, and robust security fe...
Llama 4 Hackathon in Seattle
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Austin Harris
After two incredible hackathons in SF and NYC, including over $50K in prizes, our next stop is Seattle, WA! Build alongside other top AI developers shaping the future of AI, receive hands-on support from the Llama team, and test out the latest advancements in Llama 4 models and the Llama API to build groundbreaking applications.
Space is limited! Apply now and s...
Video deluxe 2026 and Video Pro X17
Monday, June 16, 2025 by Richard Harris
Just in time for the start of the vacation season, Berlin-based software company MAGIX presents the latest version of its successful entry-level video editing program, Video deluxe 2026, and the new generation of its video editing software for advanced video enthusiasts, Video Pro X17. Both software products boast new AI features designed to aid users in the categorizat...
Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub preview
Friday, June 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, providing a powerful tool for developers who use GitHub for both professional and personal projects. This integration allows developers to leverage Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the GitHub interface.
Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub ...
The Great App Purge Googles Quality Overhaul
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by Richard Harris
In early 2025, the tech world was rocked by a revelation that caught even seasoned app developers off guard: Google’s Play Store had lost nearly half of its apps in the span of just over a year. What seemed at first to be a quiet pruning of low-value software turned out to be a full-blown purge, 47% of apps had vanished. A platform that once boasted the largest ca...
Using Porkbun for your .app or .dev domain
Monday, June 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
When you’re a developer, your domain name isn’t just a URL, it’s part of your product and personal branding. Whether you’re launching a new app, showcasing your portfolio, or launching your latest side project, how you present your work online matters. And more than ever, developers are turning to .app and .dev domains to make that first impressi...
Android cloud backup app scaled to 800K users with no team
Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris
When cloud backups were not yet standard on Android, Arth Patel built Contacts Backup, one of the platform’s first apps to let users backup their contacts to the cloud, long before Google’s native solutions were reliable or widely adopted. Created entirely solo using PHP and shared hosting, the app prioritized simplicity and trust. It grew to serve over 800,...
AI harms addressed by Anthropic
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 by Austin Harris
As AI capabilities rapidly advance, understanding and addressing the full spectrum of potential impacts becomes increasingly important. Today, we're sharing insights into our evolving approach to assessing and mitigating various harms that could result from our systems, ranging from catastrophic scenarios like biological threats to critical concerns like child safet...
CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris
CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers.
This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...
Coding improvements in new OpenAI GPT models
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Richard Harris
OpenAI recently launched three new models in the API: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. These models outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o mini across the board, with major gains in coding and instruction following. They also have larger context windows—supporting up to 1 million tokens of context, and are able to better use that context with improved long-context c...
Gemini Pro preview - Even better coding performance
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
Developers had been doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so an updated version was released a couple of weeks early to get into developers’ hands sooner.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) was recently released. This update features even stronger coding capabilities, for developers to start building with before Google I/O later this month. Meaningful imp...
Vibe Coding: Revolution or risk
Monday, May 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
A new buzzword has entered the software development lexicon: "AI Vibe Coding." Popularized in early 2025 by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to a coding approach where developers essentially "go with the flow" of AI code suggestions, providing only loose guidance or high-level vibes of what they want. In theory, you describe the feat...
Nutrient expands their cloud based services
Monday, April 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Nutrient has announced a significant expansion of its cloud-based services, as well as a series of updates to its SDK products, aimed at enhancing the developer experience by allowing developers to build, scale, and innovate with less friction. These new tools are designed to help developers streamline day-to-day workflows, leverage more deployment options, and deliver ...
