The IDEA team has interpreted the quicksort algorithm in a set of illustrations in the style of the IKEA self-assembly furniture instructions. 

Apache Daffodil 4 has been released. This is a major upgrade that has moved to depending on Scala 3, Java 17 or newer. The new version also includes a new backwards incompatible validation API.

Selling software to engineering teams has always been a challenge for developer tools companies. Formal sales cycles often lag months behind a developer’s initial, silent adoption of a tool. To address the problem, Reo.Dev captures and interprets overlooked adoption signals with its novel platform.

The TIOBE index for October is out and C has overtaken  to regain the coveted second place in the ranking. What is it about C that makes it so special and can it continue to be as important a language as we enter the era of AI-assisted coding?

Arduino has just been taken over by Qualcomm, a company generally known for its many patent disputes as well as its ARM processors. More importantly, a new Arduino has just been announced that could be a big competitor to Raspberry Pi.

Mozilla has announced that it is adding a new feature to the Firefox desktop browser  - visual search powered by Google Lens. 

The MSSQL Extension for VS Code, Microsoft's open source code editor, has been updated and now has a schema designer, schema compare tool, and local SQL Server containers. 

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, describing it as the best coding model in the world. Anthropic says this is the strongest model for building complex agents, the best model at using computers, and it shows substantial gains in reasoning and math.

Google's open source MCP server that allows AI agents to interact with SQL databases.

The BBC has reported on the advances made by scientists in Switzerland in the emerging field of Organoid Intelligence which uses human stem cells to build "mini-brains", aka organiods.

If you want to keep up with what's important from the point of view of the developer, you can rely on the I Programmer team to select items of interest. In this week's feature articles Mike James examines the benefits of using objects. To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Seymour Cray we look at his life and achievements and the remarkable supercomputers he built.

A child-sized robot has achieved lift-off and stable flight after nearly ten years of development. The developers say this is the first successful vertical takeoff of a jet-powered flying humanoid robot. iRonCub3 managed to get to a magnificent 50 centimeters off the ground for several seconds in tests. 

With 10 days to go until Microsoft ends free support for Windows 10, Windows 7 has seen an uptick in its market share, while Windows 11 has seen a slight downturn. A new petition is asking Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10 to avoid millions of serviceable PCs being sent to landfill.

 Google has released a small, specialized, but powerful model that can run on low resource devices.

Kubernetes 1.34 has been released with improvements including distributed resource allocation support, and enhanced in-cluster traffic routing. 

Google is pushing ahead with its unpopular attempt at developer verification and has recently outlined why it's not so objectionable. Is verification desirable or just another way of tightening Google's grip on software distribution?