Category: Software
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Artificial intelligence is getting smaller – and smarter. For years, the story of AI progress was about scale. Bigger models meant better performance. But now, a new wave of innovation is proving that smaller models can do more with less. These compact, efficient models are called Small Language Models (SLMs). They’re quickly becoming the preferred…
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In software development, you’ll run into XML (Extensible Markup Language) when working with configuration files, API responses, data exports, and more. While there are powerful third-party libraries for parsing XML, Python’s standard library already includes everything you need. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to parse XML using Python’s built-in xml.etree.ElementTree module. No pip installs…
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Hey there! So you want to understand database indexing? Cool. Let me break this down in a way that actually makes sense, starting from the absolute basics and working our way up to the stuff that’ll make you look like a genius in your next code review. Imagine you have a massive book with 10,000…
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As engineers at GitHub, “dogfooding” is core to our culture. We build GitHub on GitHub, using the same tools we ship to developers. But as GitHub Copilot has evolved from an autocomplete suggestion to a sophisticated AI assistant, our own use of it has evolved, too. It’s no longer just a tool in our editors.…
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The Pragmatic Linux User: Stability Over Novelty? In the dynamic world of Linux, users often find themselves at a crossroads between embracing the latest innovations and sticking with tried-and-true stability. For many seasoned Linux users, particularly those who have been around since the early ’90s, the pragmatic choice for their professional environment is to opt…
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Image Crop Tool & Random Password Generator At QuickZap, our goal has always been simple — to make everyday design and development tasks faster, cleaner, and more effortless. Today, we’re adding two new lightweight tools to the QuickZap toolbox: 🖼️ Image Crop Tool Whether you’re preparing assets for a presentation, resizing a cover for social…
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You’ve set up an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent and need Python for your pipelines. You install Python, configure your pipeline with UsePythonVersion@0, and the job fails – the agent can’t find it. The ADO documentation isn’t clear on how to properly set up Python so the agent can use it, especially when you need multiple…
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Curly COMrade – a Russian hacking group that’s been active since 2024 and is aligned with Russian political movements – has been abusing the Microsoft Hyper-V within Windows to bypass detection by creating a virtual machine (VM) based on Alpine Linux to deploy malware. The VM only uses 120MB of disk space and 256MB of…
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Word on the street? Deepnote is now open-source! Jakub Jurových, the Founder of Deepnote, announced on LinkedIn this week. During my research, I found out that the European Soccer Database from Kaggle has 25K+ matches, 10K+ players, and 2008–2016 seasons across 11 leagues. In this guide will use Deepnote in Windsurf to analyse the European…
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I recently started using the View Transitions API in one of my projects, and honestly, it felt like unlocking a hidden superpower for the web. I had to share it. Not long ago, this API was just a Chrome experiment. But as of 2025, it’s officially everywhere, supported in Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, covering…