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Cursor v/s VS Code v/s Windsurf: Which IDE Makes Developers More Productive?

A deep dive into the 3-way battle for the developer's desktop—comparing AI depth, flow state, autonomous agents, and real-world productivity. Three years ago, choosing a code editor was simple: you downloaded VS Code, installed your favorite syntax theme, added a few extensions, and got to work. Today, developer tooling has undergone a seismic shift. AI isn't just an extension sitting in a sidebar; it's driving entire workflows, editing dozens of files simultaneously, and executing comple...
A Lightweight Rich Text Component Without a Web View
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A Lightweight Rich Text Component Without a Web View

PR #5421 adds RichTextComponent , a read-only component for formatted application text. It supports headings, inline styles, lists, links, and images without embedding a web view. What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com . A SpanLabel applies one style to wrapped text. A BrowserComponent renders a complete web page. RichTextComponent ...
Ilish Polao: Bringing My Ultimate Comfort Food to Life with Pure CSS
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Ilish Polao: Bringing My Ultimate Comfort Food to Life with Pure CSS

This is my official entry for the Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition under the CSS Art category. Inspiration 🍚🐟 When thinking about "comfort food," I didn’t want to pick a generic burger or pizza. I wanted to build something tied directly to home and my culture: Ilish Polao (Hilsha fish cooked with fragrant rice). Hilsha is the national fish of Bangladesh, and Ilish Polao—paired with a side of spicy-sweet tomato chutney—is the ultimate comfort meal in our house. Translating a d...
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25 Programming Mistakes I Learned After 10 Years of Software Engineering

When you start as a junior developer, you think software engineering is about writing code. A few years in, you think it's about choosing the right architecture and frameworks. After ten-plus years in the trenches - shipping features, surviving on-call disasters, and watching "perfect" codebases turn into unmaintainable monsters - you realize the truth: Software engineering is mostly about managing complexity, human communication, and trade-offs. Here are 25 mistakes I made, witnessed,...
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The OpenAI loop tests a view on AI, not just your coding bar

Canonical: this is a cross-post. The original lives at https://four-leaf.ai/blog/openai-interview-process Most OpenAI interview prep hands you a list of hard coding problems and tells you to grind. That calms the nerves and misreads the loop, because at OpenAI the coding bar sits next to something the grind can't touch: a genuine point of view on where AI is going and how it could go wrong. Candidate-facing guides describe that thread running from the first recruiter call to the final beh...
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Why Does This Download End in .tar.zst?

You download a backup, software package, or dataset and find a file with an unusually long extension: something.tar.zst It looks like two file formats have somehow been glued together. That is essentially what happened — but each part has a different job. The .tar part bundles files and folders together. The .zst part compresses that bundle. Understanding the difference also explains why these files can be awkward to open on a Mac. Two formats, two jobs ZIP is both...
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Your agent's audit log is a story, not evidence

Almost every tool-governance layer I have looked at writes its log after the call returns. Some write it in a finally . Some batch it. Some hand it to a logging framework that flushes on its own schedule. That ordering quietly decides what your log can be used for. If the record is written after the body runs, then a record that is missing has two possible explanations, and nothing in the file distinguishes them: The call was never authorised, so it never ran. The call was autho...
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FFmpeg 9.0

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Hybrid Cloud: Is It the Worst Possible Option?
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Hybrid Cloud: Is It the Worst Possible Option?

In this blog, I compare hybrid cloud to hybrid cars, then preview my newly-published O'Reilly book on network telemetry, co-written with Kentik's Avi Freedman.
Would You Trust an AI With Your Crypto?
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Would You Trust an AI With Your Crypto?

AI can track markets, explain crypto and make trades, but giving it control of your money raises serious questions about mistakes, scams and security.
K-EXAONE 2.0 Brings 262K Context to Frontier AI
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K-EXAONE 2.0 Brings 262K Context to Frontier AI

Explore K-EXAONE 2.0, LG’s 750B-parameter multilingual AI model with 262K context, dual reasoning modes, agentic coding, and Apache 2.0 licensing.