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OpenAI’s $3 billion bid to buy artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Windsurf crumbled late Friday, and rival Alphabet Inc.’s Google quickly picked up the pieces: The search engine giant said it has struck a deal to acquire top Windsurf executives and licensing rights to some Windsurf technology.Google announced the hiring of Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and company co-founder Douglas Chen, along with staffers, to work at its DeepMind AI unit on agentic coding, based on multiple reports Friday.Google declined to provide financial terms of the deal. But it disclosed it is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not…

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IDN EncodeConvert international domain names to Punycode format Domain Input Encoded Output Encode IDN Clear All What is an IDN Encode Tool or Punycode Converter?I love domain names and the way they connect people to content around the world. Many domains include characters outside the basic English alphabet. Web infrastructure relies on ASCII letters in DNS records. The Internationalized Domain Name standard uses a system called Punycode to map Unicode characters into ASCII.An IDN encode tool transforms any Unicode domain into its Punycode form. This ensures that browsers and servers can resolve the domain without error. Examples include accent marks…

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XML to JSON ConverterConvert structured XML into clean, readable JSON instantly Convert XML Clear All What is an XML to JSON Converter?I have wrestled with XML more times than I care to count. It is powerful, sure, but not exactly friendly when you are writing JavaScript or building APIs. That is where JSON shines—simple, lightweight, and made for modern developers. But what do you do when you are handed a legacy XML file and need to get it working in your app right now?That is where this tool comes in. An XML to JSON converter lets you paste structured XML…

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Agents are the future, and if you haven’t already started building agents, you probably will soon. Across industries and use cases, agents can act on our behalf, and offload repetitive work, because they can act on our behalf with judgment and context.  But while agentic development is moving fast, today it’s tedious, hard, and not fun: you need to quickly iterate with different prompts and models (both frontier models and local/open models), you need to find and connect MCP tools to internal data securely, and you need to declaratively package everything so that others can run your agent. And you…

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JSON to XML ConverterTurn any valid JSON into clean, standards-friendly XML in one click Convert JSON Clear All What is a JSON to XML Converter?I love how JSON keeps data light and friendly for JavaScript, yet some legacy systems still expect XML. When your shiny front-end meets an older partner, you need a translator. A JSON to XML converter takes your modern JSON and turns it into well-formed XML so both systems can talk without arguing about syntax.What Does Our JSON to XML Converter Do?This web tool reads any valid JSON object or array, parses it in-browser, and outputs neat…

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In DevOps workflows, infrastructure as code has become a very important approach to managing and automating any infrastructure. Ansible, a powerful infrastructure as code tool, simplifies configuration management, build deployments and environment setup across multiple systems. One common challenge in the DevOps world is ensuring that build environments are set up consistently across different machines to make sure they behave the same way. In this post, I will demonstrate how Ansible can automate the setup of a build environment for any type of build. I will include Windows as well as the Linux environment setup. Windows-based .NET builds Needs Visual Studio Build Tools, .NET…

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JSON to YAML ConverterTurn compact JSON into readable, indentation-based YAML instantly Convert JSON Clear All What is a JSON to YAML Converter?I love JSON for its strict structure, but sometimes I want the elegance of YAML. YAML is indentation based, comment friendly, and easy on the eyes, which makes configuration files feel less cluttered. A JSON to YAML converter takes any valid JSON object or array and translates it into properly indented YAML so teams that prefer YAML can work with data that originally came from JavaScript or any REST response.What Does Our JSON to YAML Converter Do?This tool lives…

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BCD to Decimal ConverterConvert Binary-Coded Decimal (BCD) values into standard base-10 numbers Convert BCD Clear All What is a BCD to Decimal Converter?I like binary, but let’s be honest—binary-coded decimal (BCD) makes life a little weird. Instead of packing values tightly like standard binary, BCD encodes each decimal digit into its own 4-bit binary chunk. This makes it easy to read digitally but not so fun to decode manually. A BCD to Decimal Converter reads that binary mess and gives you back a regular human-readable number.What Does Our BCD to Decimal Converter Do?This tool takes a string of binary digits—grouped…

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When thinking about starting a Generative AI (GenAI) project, you might assume that Python is required to get started in this new space. However, if you’re already a Java developer, there’s no need to learn a new language. The Java ecosystem offers robust tools and libraries that make building GenAI applications both accessible and productive. In this blog, you’ll learn how to build a GenAI app using Java. We’ll do a step-by-step demo to show you how RAG enhances the model response, using Spring AI and Docker tools. Spring AI integrates with many model providers (for both chat and embeddings),…

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