Would that be 1K woodels? This is a crazy project that almost demands that someone tries to implement an alternative. Of course, you could do it. But first read something about the difficulties.

If you want to keep up with what's important from the point of view of the developer, you can rely on the I Programmer team to select items of interest. In this week's feature articles Mike James looks at value structs in C. In holiday mood, we also visit our archives to find the set of videos by Sapientia University that present Sorting Algorithms as folk dance routines.

'Python: The Documentary' is now out and we have it for you all to view right here. The official premiere took place yesterday evening at PyCon Greece 2025 simultaneously with its availability on You Tube. Twenty-four hours later it has already had almost 60K views and has been warmly welcomed by the Python community around the world.

Researchers have developed a soft, wearable robot that can learn the precise movements of the person wearing the kit to maximize the help the robot can provide. The aim is to provide better assistance to people suffering from impaired movement of the shoulder, arm or hands. 

AWS has turned S3 buckets into Vector stores. This makes it  the first cloud object store with native support to store and query vectors. What are the advantages?

GitHub has added an agents panel that developers can use to delegate tasks to Copilot from any page on github with a simple prompt. 

As one door opens another closes. Just as we start to see some opening of the Android and Apple walled gardens Google is making a move to restrict who can create code for Android. 

Expand your portfolio of skills with a new programming language. Coursera currently has an offer - 30% off an annual subscription to Coursera Plus. This runs until September 22, 2025 and is available to new Coursera Plus subscribers. 

The first stable version Oxlint, a Rust-powered linter developed as part of the Oxc toolchain, has been released. The new linter promises a 50 to 100 times performance improvement over ESLint along with support for over 500 ESLint rules.

Apache has released Netbeans 27, with fixes to Gradle handling, Maven updates, and more work on JDK 25 compatibility. 

Cactus is a "Cross-platform framework for deploying LLM/VLM/TTS models locally in your app". What does that mean?

The latest preview of .NET 10, the platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, has been released. New in this version are a source generator for XAML in .NET MAUI, and  PipeReader support for the JSON serializer. 

The artist who created the Kryptos sculpture that is located in the grounds of the HQ of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is to auction the solution to the currently unsolved fourth message on the sculpture. 

Take a break and catch up with the latest articles and news posted on this site. This week Mike James discusses Randomness, a topic that is more subtle than you might imagine. And from our History section we have selected Steve Wozniak - Electronics Genius in celebration of Woz's 75th birthday.

Rubrik has developed a tool that can be used to undo AI agent mistakes. Agent Rewind records every action and creates an audit trail back to the source prompt, so users can undo the actions when things go wrong. 

Strands is a new Python SDK from Amazon that aims to shorten the time required for developing agentic AI applications.

The latest update to Node.js adds type stripping by default, along with other more minor improvements including the propagation of permission model flags on spawn; and a fix to allow correct handling of burst in fs-events with AsyncIterator. 

The results of the 2024 Python Developers Survey, conducted as a collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains have been published. This was the eighth edition of this survey and reveals that Python encompasses almost all areas of computing.