Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025)
April brought a solid set of software updates to an assortment of different apps. In this post, I run through recent releases that didn’t get the “whole article” treatment on this blog. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to cover everything I want to ...
Google is working on a big UI overhaul for Android
When Google released the fourth beta of Android 16 this month, many users were disappointed by the lack of major UI changes. As Beta 4 is the final beta, it’s likely the stable Android 16 release won’t look much different than last year’s release...
PATH isn’t real on Linux
I have no idea how much relevance this short but informative rundown of how PATH works in Linux has in the real world, but I found it incredibly interesting and enlightening. The basic gist – and I might be wrong, there’s code involved and I’m no...
“I use zip bombs to protect my server”
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bots crawling content to power LLMs. But then there ar...
Zoho adds AI capabilities to its low code dev platform
Zoho on Wednesday announced the addition of 10 AI-centric services and features within Zoho Creator, the company’s low code application development platform, that it said are part of its pledge to invest only in “AI capabilities that drive real-ti...
WordPress 6.8.1 Maintenance Release
WordPress 6.8.1 is now available! This minor release includes fixes for 15 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor addressing issues affecting multiple areas of WordPress including the block editor, multisite, and REST API. For a full list of bug fix...
Meta will offer its Llama AI model as an API too
Meta has unveiled a preview version of an API for its Llama large language models. The new offering will transform Meta’s popular open-source models into an enterprise-ready service directly challenging established players like OpenAI while addressi...
Track Moon Phases From Your Ubuntu Desktop With Luna
Luna brings moon phases to your Ubuntu desktop with a simple GNOME Shell extension. Track current phase, illumination percentage, and upcoming changes right from your panel. You're reading Track Moon Phases From Your Ubuntu Desktop With Luna, a blog po...
openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta
Leap Micro 6.2 Adopts the Leap Release Cycle Members of the openSUSE Release Team are excited to announce that the Leap 16 Beta is now available for testing! Like its predecessor Leap 15.6, the Leap 16.0 version continues the tradition of a stable, cla...
Catching up with Angular 19
Angular 19 continues its ongoing project of simplifying and improving developer experience while boosting performance. The development team’s well-publicized attention to these goals has paid off in the general perception of Angular as a project on ...
Four essential ingredients of software development
Somewhere between marching to a screaming Marine Corps drill instructor, watching Naval Aviators smash into a steel deck, and living in constant fear of getting chewed out for an “Irish pennant,” I learned some valuable lessons about writing good ...
Apiiro launches AI-powered risk analysis map for software
Agentic application security provider Apiiro has unveiled Software Graph Visualization, an AI-powered interactive map that enables real-time visualization of software architectures across all components, vulnerabilities, data exposure, and material ch...
Tackle tab overload with Firefox Tab Groups
Open a web browser and you step into a garden of forking paths — where news, messages, memes, work, learning and cat videos all compete for your attention. Every click sprouts another tab. Before you know it, your author has opened 68,000 tabs in one...
