Hands-on guides for working developers: databases, Git and code review, JavaScript tooling, containers, repository security and the languages and platforms behind modern software, with code you can run.
Deno Deploy has about six months left and the Deno runtime a year of maintenance after the team joined Cloudflare. What was announced, what wasn't, and how to move your apps to Workers, Node.js or Bun.
Python 3.15 was released on 9 October 2026 with explicit lazy imports, new frozendict and sentinel built-ins, a sampling profiler, and UTF-8 as the default encoding. What changes for your code, and a checklist for upgrading safely.
Angular now ships one major a year, so v22 is the version to be on until mid-2027. The breaking changes to watch during the upgrade, the features worth adopting from 22.0 to 22.2, and a step-by-step upgrade plan.
All three popular TypeScript ORMs are changing major versions at once. A side-by-side look at Prisma 7/8, Drizzle 0.45/v1 and TypeORM 1.x, with the same PostgreSQL query in each and advice on which to choose.
Next.js 16.4 now recommends Cache Components for every app and turns them on for new projects. What the model is, how the new ensureStatic config and navigation()/prefetch() functions work, what every app gets from upgrading, and a staged upgrade plan.
PostgreSQL 19 is at Beta 4 with GA expected in October 2026. What is actually shipping, including ON CONFLICT DO SELECT, WAIT FOR LSN and REPACK CONCURRENTLY, which Beta 1 features were reverted, and how to test your app against it now.
TypeScript 7.0 rewrites the compiler in Go for 8-12x faster builds, but it removes old options and ships without a programmatic API. What changed, what breaks, how to run TypeScript 6 and 7 side by side, and what Angular developers should do today.
From Vivado 2026.1, AMD's free Standard edition is Windows-only. What exactly changed, how to keep Linux builds and CI working, and where the open-source Yosys/nextpnr flow fits, with a working GitHub Actions example.
Zig and Rust solve different problems well. An honest look at when moving a Zig codebase to Rust is worth it, when it isn't, and how to migrate one module at a time over the C ABI, with working code.
Learn to read PostgreSQL EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE output using real plans from a reproducible test database, verify the planner's cost formula by hand, tune random_page_cost and work_mem, and find the queries worth fixing with pg_stat_statements.
