This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

While my note updates were decreasing, I was actually working on 6 things in parallel with Claude Code and ChatGPT. CompanyOS ...

Project Zenith proves that a bloat-free Windows 11 can exist. Why is Microsoft reserving it for developers with 64GB of RAM?

You don’t need it anymore because VS Code added native bracket pair colorization in version 1.60 and turned it on by default ...

Excel is still my spreadsheet workhorse, but VS Code handles the awkward file-level jobs I don't want Excel touching.

Microsoft's editors remain prominent in the 2026 developer survey, while GitHub Copilot trails Claude Code and ASP.NET Core ranks fourth among web technologies.

Marit van Dijk is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over 20 years of software development experience. She’s passionate about building great software with great people, and ...

Together AI has released Together Link, a free, MIT-licensed CLI now in beta. It connects the coding agents developers ...

Tabnine offers best-in-class AI code completion and an AI-powered chat that increases productivity and accelerates the entire software development lifecycle. Here’s what you can do with Tabnine: Plan: ...

BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that spends 37.2% fewer thinking tokens across ...

Natura unveils Interface, a $99 AI smart ring designed to access multiple AI agents. Explore its health tracking, battery life, compatibility and availability. If you can only read one tech story a ...