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Docker Adds MCP Catalog And Toolkit
Written by Kay Ewbank   
Thursday, 05 June 2025

Docker has introduced MCP Catalog, a centralized, trusted registry for discovering, sharing, and running MCP-compatible tools.  An associated toolkit was also launched. 

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 June 2025
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July Week 3
Jul 26 | Editor
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Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. This week we have two tutorials from Mike James. In the first he looks at process managers in Python. The second is programming language agnostic and investigates a classic data structure - trees.



Unicode Adds Bigfoot Emoji
Jul 25 | Kay Ewbank
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The Unicode Consortium, the standards body that really ought to know better, has come up with this year's list of bizarre additions to the already long and weird list of emojis. As always, the preview list was revealed in honor of World Emoji Day, the annual emoji-fest that has happened on 17 July for the last twelve years.



For The Love Of Code
Jul 25 | Lucy Black
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GitHub has announced For the Love of Code, a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. The idea is that you take the mad ideas you've got sitting on the back burner and actually build them.



Apache Doris Beats ElasticSearch
Jul 24 | Kay Ewbank
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The latest version of Apache Doris has taken third place in JSONBench, a benchmark for data analytics on JSON. Doris is an open source real-time analytical database based on massively parallel processing which provides interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.



Edera Announces Hardened Runtime Security
Jul 24 | Kay Ewbank
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Edera has set out a new software security inititative, Hardened Runtime Security, that avoids the problems caused by the industry tendency to 'move fast and break things.'  The company has also joined the NVIDIA Inception Program and is launching on AWS Marketplace. 



Python Parallel? Not Quite Python 14
Jul 23 | Mike James
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Python is a wonderful language, but lack of speed is its main drawback. Can the Python community create a fully threaded Python to be proud of? It's a big challenge.



Human Programmer Outwits OpenAI's o3
Jul 23 | Sue Gee
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The 2025 AtCoder World Finals Heuristic Contest was billed a Human vs AI showdown. It is difficult to know which was the more important - that it was Psyho, a Polish human programmer, who topped the leaderboard and was awarded the prize of 500,000 Japanese Yen, around $3,400 USD, or that OpenAIAHC came second, well ahead of all the other human contestants. 



Azul And ChainGuard Team Up
Jul 22 | Nikos Vaggalis
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...to secure Java container images that incorporate Azul’s build of OpenJDK.



Linux Passes 5% Milestone
Jul 22 | Harry Fairhead
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Latest figures from StatCounter show that Linux achieved a 5.03% share of the Desktop Operating System market in June 2025, something that is being viewed as a pivotal moment for open-source software enthusiasts and industry observers alike.



Agentic AI For PostgreSQL
Jul 21 | Nikos Vaggalis
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Agentic AI and MPC are coming to the database. We examine two options that will allow you to diagnose and tweak PostgreSQL, the modern way.



Google Clarifies ChromeOS Android Merger
Jul 21 | Kay Ewbank
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Is Google planning on merging ChromeOS with Android? Last week it looked like the long-standing rumor had been casually confirmed by a Google spokesperson. This week, we're back to a position of 'as you were'. 



Cheap 3D Printed Robots Walk Off Production Line
Jul 20 | Lucy Black
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Robots that enthusiasts could build for under $500, and that are smart enough to walk off the 3D printer that formed them, have been demonstrated by a team at the University of Edinburgh. 



July Week 2
Jul 19 | Editor
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In this week's top featured article Harry Fairhead shows how to work with IoT devices using the Raspberry Pi 5 and Gpio5. What's Gpio5? It is a new open source library written by Harry specifically to let the Pi 5 work directly with GPIO hardware. It is  based on the Pico SDK for the RP1 microprocessor, the chip that also powers the Pi 5. 



Coursera Plus - Your Ticket To Success
Jul 18 | Sue Gee
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At the moment Coursera Plus has a special offer for new subscribers. If you love learning new skills or keeping your existing skills up to date, it's worth your immediate attention.



Blender Free Game Tops Steam
Jul 18 | Lucy Black
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Blender Studio has released a free-to-play game on Steam that is designed not just to be fun to play, but as an example of what you can create in the games arena using just open source software.



Take Part In GitHub's Copilot Adventures
Jul 17 | Nikos Vaggalis
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GitHub Copilot Adventures is a repository that, through fun and educational play, teaches how to use Copilot effectively.


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Moral Money - The Case For Bitcoin (Sophia Institute Press)
25 Jul

In this book, Crisis Magazine editor and author Eric Sammons argues that although in its early days bitcoin was known as the currency of drug-dealers and criminals, it is in fact the most moral money ever created and that it outshines our current economic system, which empowers the corrupt and corrupts the powerful. 

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The Design of Web APIs 2nd Ed (Manning)
23 Jul

This book provides guidance on creating web APIs that are flexible, secure, and easily integrated. It shows how to streamline and standardize API design decisions with rationale and automation, and provides insights on how to apply the concepts to other API styles such as gRPC.In this new edition Arnaud Lauret covers the latest updates to the OpenAPI standard.

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Practical C++ Game Programming with Data Structures and Algorithms (Packt)
21 Jul

This book looks at the challenges of game development from rendering complex 3D scenes to managing AI behavior and handling animations using high-performance C++ data structures and algorithms. Zhenyu George Li  and Charles Shih-I Yeh show how to apply practical C++ techniques to create smooth, scalable, and intelligent games.

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