Predictions from some of the most prominent voices in the technology industry suggest that software engineering could become increasingly obsolete within a year, jolting the developer community in ways that are still unfolding. The ripple effect spreads further across social media and news outlets, with some leaders urging developers to start seriously considering alternative career paths before the window closes.But while AI can generate functional code in seconds, it still cannot handle complex decision-making, understand ambiguous real-world requirements, navigate legacy systems, or take accountability for the behavior of large interconnected systems. Those limitations matter enormously in production environments where the…
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In this lesson, we’ll turn a modal into a real multi-step wizard. We’ll validate each step, support…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways GitHub’s new Copilot dashboard measures impact, not just access, showing whether licensed developers are actually changing how they work. Users are grouped by adoption depth: basic code completion, agent-first workflows, multi-agent use and passive license holders. The dashboard connects Copilot usage to engineering outcomes, including pull requests merged, merge speed and lines of code per day. GitHub has released a new dashboard that gives enterprise administrators a much clearer picture of how their developers are actually using Copilot, not just whether they’re using it at all. The move addresses a gap that’s dogged IT leaders since…
Next, we’ll add a reusable toast system to give users better feedback. We’ll wire it up with…
If you already know Python, learning an entirely new configuration language just to manage cloud infrastructure feels like a detour. That is exactly the problem CDK for Terraform, usually shortened to CDKTF, was built to solve. It lets you define real cloud infrastructure, servers, storage buckets, databases, networking, using regular Python code instead of Terraform’s native HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This guide walks through what CDKTF is, how to set it up, and how to provision a simple AWS infrastructure using nothing but Python. What is CDK for Terraform? Terraform is one of the most widely used infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.…
No, this is not the SQL Server Developer Edition. This is something new (as of the time of writing). Well, it’s like the Developer Edition that you’ve all been familiar with in all the SQL Server versions. This Developer edition is for the cloud-only, PaaS Azure SQL Database. And, yeah, we would like to thank Microsoft for this!The idea behind Azure SQL Developer is for anyone to build, iterate, and test locally at no cost. This means NO Azure subscription to deal with and NO credit card required! Everything will work seamlessly when you deploy your application to an Azure…
Hister is a self-hosted search tool that indexes your local files and browser history, so you can quickly search both from one place. We’ve all been there. You know a markdown note, PDF, or config file contains the information you need, but you can’t remember where you saved it. The find command only works if you know the filename, while grep -r has to scan every directory, which can be slow on large folders. Hister solves this by creating an index of your files in advance. Instead of scanning everything every time you search, it looks up the indexed data,…
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We’ll warm up by building a polished inline editing experience in Livewire. Plain content will become editable…