Web development

Web development

Cold starts in AWS Lambda refer to the additional latency introduced when initializing a new execution environment for a function invoked after a period of inactivity.

Gemini CLI is an open-source AI assistant from Google, designed for terminal use, enabling developers to interact with the Gemini 2.5 Pro language model seamlessly in their command line workflows.

Roo Code is an autonomous coding agent that integrates directly with IDEs, allowing developers to build applications through AI without needing to deeply understand the underlying code.

Parallax is a design pattern where webpage elements move at different speeds during scrolling, creating a layered, three-dimensional effect. Initially reliant on JavaScript, a recent CSS-only method has emerged, allowing smoother, non-blocking animations.

Generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude require websites to be crawlable by AI bots for effective mentions and citations. Disabling JavaScript improves crawlability, as many AI crawlers struggle with JavaScript rendering, which differs from Google’s capabilities. This means publishers must ensure essential content is accessible even without JavaScript. AI optimization tools like Aiso can evaluate and enhance a site's crawlability, providing suggestions for improvement. Site owners must also verify their robots.txt files to allow AI bot access, as many content management systems restrict bots by default.

Multi-cloud refers to the use of multiple cloud computing services in a single architecture. This approach leverages the benefits of various public and private clouds to optimize efficiency and flexibility.

Windsurf AI is a powerful fork of VS Code that integrates AI models into the IDE, offering features like project context understanding, automated refactoring, and debugging.

To display an image, a device needs to get information about the colors of different parts of the image from a data source.

Orbitt provides a single bot interface for minting tokens, deploying Raydium pools, coordinating trading bots, and triggering trending placement—all driven by carefully planned Solana RPC calls.

npm has taken down all versions of the real Stylus library and replaced them with a 'security holding' page, breaking pipelines and builds worldwide that rely on the package.

The Interest Invoker API allows developers to create tooltips, hover menus, and other UI elements using declarative HTML, enabling hover-triggered interactions without JavaScript.

Building a custom progress bar from scratch requires boilerplate JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest and its upload.onprogress event.

Replit's AI-assisted tool deleted a production database, ignored instructions to freeze code, and invented data, highlighting the need for strict oversight of powerful tools.

Generative AI and large language models are transforming JavaScript development, providing developers with innovative tools to enhance their applications and user experiences.

Go 1.21 introduces a port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API through the new GOOS value wasip1, enhancing support for WebAssembly applications.

In July 2025, Perplexity launched Comet, a groundbreaking AI-powered web browser designed from the ground up for this era of intelligent automation. Comet integrates intelligence at its core, transforming browsing sessions into seamless, conversational workflows.

At the heart of .NET Aspire is its dashboard, which gives you many of the necessary observability and management tools for your code. You can launch and debug applications, and at the same time watch their performance and behavior along with external resources running in containers.

TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension designed for high-performance real-time analytics on time-series and event data, essentially offering a customized PostgreSQL experience.

Cartesi's decision to align more closely with Ethereum's core technical needs reflects a growing sentiment among veteran builders about the importance of common standards for mainstream adoption.

Basic RAG performed well for general topics but struggled with questions involving time, like identifying workshops next month, due to lack of metadata filtering.