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How Airbnb Caters to Users with Low Vision with Accessible Text Resizing
The Airbnb Tech Blog recently detailed how Airbnb enhances accessibility for users with vision difficulties. Through careful implementation of text resizing guidelines, Airbnb maintains web content, functionality, and a good user experience even as the text font size is doubled.
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OpenSSF Launches Siren for Open Source Threat Intelligence
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has announced Siren, “a collaborative effort to aggregate and disseminate threat intelligence specific to open source projects”. The initiative comes in the wake of the XZ Utils compromise where it became clear that open source projects needed better ways to disseminate and receive relevant threat intelligence.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, Piranha Cloud, Spring Data 2024.0.0, GlassFish, Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for May 13th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), proposed to target for JDK 23; the May 2024 edition of Piranha Cloud; Spring Data 2024.0.0; and point and milestone releases of Spring Framework, GlassFish and Micrometer.
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Google Launches Gemini 1.5 Flash for Lower-Latency and More Efficient AI Serving
Part of the Gemini family of AI models, Gemini Flash is a lighter-weight iteration that is designed to be faster and more efficient to use than Gemini Pro while offering the same "breakthrough" context window of one million tokens.
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Rider 2024.1: New Monitoring Tool Window, Collection Vizualizer, .NET Aspire, AI Assistant Plugin
JetBrains has released Rider 2024.1. This release contains a new monitoring tool window and a collection visualizer. There also appeared the plugins: .Net Aspire, AI Assistant and features regarding debugging.
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Rolldown, a Rollup-Compatible Rust-Based Bundler for JavaScript, is Now Open -Sourced
Rolldown is a new JavaScript bundler written in Rust for performance. Rolldown intends to be compatible with Rollup’s APIs and plugins. The Rolldown project is led by Evan You (creator of the Vue web framework) and is intended to become Vite’s next bundler.
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Jetpack Compose Extends Transitions and Animations, and Improves Performance
The latest release of Jetpack Compose, announced at Google I/O 2024, brings several extensions, including support for shared element transitions, lazy list item animations, improved performance, and more.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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Rust-Written Borgo Language Brings Algebraic Data Types and More to Go
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go and strives to be interoperable with the existing Go ecosystem. The Borgo language adds to Go algebraic data types, pattern matching, Option and Result types, and more Rust-inspired syntax. The Borgo’s compiler itself is implemented in Rust.
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TypeSpec: a Practical TypeScript-Inspired API Definition Language
Recently, Microsoft engineers officially unveiled TypeSpec, a new language tailored for API-centric development that addresses the complex needs of modern API design. TypeSpec is an open-source, extensible language inspired by TypeScript and C#. It supports various protocols and serialization formats, enabling developers to use a single tool to manage multiple API specifications.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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Phoenix LiveView Promises SPA-Like Interactivity for Real-Time Server-Rendered Apps
9 years after the Phoenix web framework was made generally available, Phoenix LiveView recently reached 1.0 (release candidate). LiveView allows developers to create rich, real-time server-rendered applications without writing JavaScript. LiveView relies on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) to scale to millions of WebSocket connections handled by multiple processes concurrently.
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Technical Preview of Github Copilot Workspace: Copilot-Native Developer Environment
Recently, GitHub released a technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace, a developer environment built on GPT-4 Turbo explicitly designed for Copilot. This workspace lets developers quickly brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code using natural language.
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Fortran on Cloudflare Workers Leveraging WebAssembly
Cloudflare has recently showcased how to run Fortran on Cloudflare Workers by compiling to WebAssembly. The project leveraged recent advancements in LLVM Flang, enabling Fortran to compile to Wasm.
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Microsoft Dev Proxy v0.17 Now Integrates with Azure API Center
Microsoft has recently released Dev Proxy v0.17.0, which brings a range of enhancements. Users can now easily verify API registration with Azure API Center, ensuring compliance, and confirm the use of production APIs. Improved mocking requests enhance testing, while simplified acquisition and setup on Windows and macOS boost accessibility