Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – March 2025
Hello again Thunderbird Community! It’s been almost a year since I joined the project and I’ve recently been enjoying the most rewarding and exciting work days in recent memory. The team who works on making Thunderbird better each day is so passion...
Why is cloud-based AI so hard?
The public cloud market continues its explosive growth trajectory, with enterprises rushing to their cloud consoles to allocate more resources, particularly for AI initiatives. Cloud providers are falling over themselves to promote their latest AI cap...
Visual Studio Code stabilizes agent mode
Visual Studio Code 1.99, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, is now available. Highlights of the update center on GitHub Copilot agent mode, Next Edit Suggestions, and Copilot chat. Developers can access Visual Studio Code 1.99, a...
Try Firefox’s Experimental Link Previews with AI Summary
Hate having to read an article to understand what it’s saying and would rather read what an AI says it (potentially) says instead? Mozilla Firefox has your back. Saltiness aside, the latest nightly builds of Firefox 139 include an experimental web li...
Cloudflare unveils agentic AI development tools
Following on its February release of the Agents SDK JavaScript framework for building AI agents, Cloudflare began its Developer Week today by announcing a series of tools and features designed to accelerate agentic AI development. And to pull all of t...
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index
The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. All three seem to have lost traction and to be in decline, according to Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. Published April 7, the...
The insanity of being a software engineer
Software gets more complicated. All of this complexity is there for a reason. But what happened to specializing? When a house is being built, tons of people are involved: architects, civil engineers, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, interior design...
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel deep dive
Apple’s Darwin operating system is the Unix-like core underpinning macOS, iOS, and all of Apple’s modern OS platforms. At its heart lies the XNU kernel – an acronym humorously standing for “X is Not Unix.” XNU is a unique hybrid kernel that c...
