In cooperation with SUSE, Udacity is launching a new highly practical, project-oriented Nanodegree to learn how to design and deploy microservices by leveraging cloud native tools and patterns.

Loops are an essential part of any program and becoming a programmer is mostly a matter of mastering the idea of controlled repetition. It is sad that most programmers only know the forms of loops provided by one or at most two languages because they have a life and structure that doesn't depend on language. 

The quick answer to this is interruptions and meetings. GitHub has taken a detailed look at what helps developers have good days in the Good Day Project and discovers that simply taking a few minutes to reflect at the end of the working day made a big difference to how they felt.

A new version of Notepad++ has been released. The updated version of the text editor adds support for ARM64 systems, as well as extending its range beyond x86 and x64 systems.

The Microsoft Devs for VS Code together with their counterparts at GitHub have come up with a way to browse and edit GitHub repositories quickly and safely inside VS Code, eliminating the need to first clone the repo.

TypeScript 4.3 has been released with enhancements including separate write types on properties, template string type improvements, and #private support for EMCAScript class elements.

A new "Swan Lake" beta release of Ballerina has been released that the developers say radically simplifies how developers build and deploy cloud-native applications through an intuitive syntax for developing services and APIs, seamless JSON support, and built-in concurrency control.

The history of computing, both hardware and software, is punctuated by patent wrangles. One of the most bitterly contested hinged on a meeting that took place eighty years ago, on June 14, 1941 when John Mauchly, went to Iowa City to see John Atanasoff and his ABC computer.

A new robot dog is being put through its paces. The Unitree Go1 looks a lot like Boston Dynamic's Spot but with a base price of $2,700 it's a lot more affordable.

The 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award has been awarded to Margaret Martonosi for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture which have led to new fields of research.

The beta of Chrome 92 has been launched with improvements including web apps as file handlers and new JavaScript features.

Open Source Insights is a new project by Google that helps developers understand and visualize their applications' dependencies and therefore the vulnerabilities that come with them.

Apple has announced new developer tools and features during this year's WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), including  Xcode Cloud, a new integration and delivery service built into Xcode 13, improvements to Swift, and developer-focused improvements to Apple App Store.