Are you ready for Thanksgiving, when overeating remorse and a surfeit of being thankful causes the unsettling thought that there are only four weeks till the Xmas break? So here is a mix of weird and wonderful things you might want to give to the geeks and coders in your life.

This year's premium conference for PostgreSQL took place in Athens, Greece between October 22-25. The nice Athenian weather and cultural aspect aside, the conference was a big hit too.

Microsoft has announced a preview release of the Microsoft Extensions VectorData Abstractions library, which can be used to help integrate vector stores into .NET applications and libraries.

Zitadel has announced a major funding round that will be used to expand technical teams and fund further product development. The company is the creator of an open source project for cloud-native identity infrastructure.

The Rust Foundation has just released a statement on Rust and C++ interoperability and Google is ponying up $1 to see that it gets done.

Go is currently in 7th place in the TIOBE Index for November 2024. Not only is this is the highest position it has ever had, it's percentage rating is almost equal to its all-time-high. Will Go continue to go higher?

Uno has announced Uno Platform Studio, a suite of productivity tools featuring Hot Design, which they describe as a next-generation Visual Designer for .NET cross-platform apps.

A few months ago the OpenAI .NET library was released as a beta. It has now reached version 2.0.0 and the time has come to leave beta and, with a few amendments enter production readiness.

.NET 9 has been released with a number of performance improvements and new features designed to help developers use AI.

Introducing a GitHub repository full of hot tips and instructions on how to build the perfect prompt presented in a collection of Jupiter Notebooks.

Using imitation learning, a robot has learned to perform surgical procedures as skillfully as human surgeons, bringing the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together with the week's book review and new titles selected for Book Watch Archive. This week's top featured article is a look at logic - from the Greeks to George Boole with a side order of Prolog. We also consider the impact of multiple monitors on programmer productivity. 

Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the co-founder of the BASIC programming language, has died at the age of 96. BASIC, which was developed for the purpose of education, popularized computer programming making it accessible outside the narrow confines of academia.

Lightbend, the company that developed Akka, has announced Akka 3, and has changed its name to Akka. The company produces cloud-native microservices frameworks, and Akka is used for building distributed applications.

TestSprite has announced an early access beta program for its end-to-end QA tool, along with $1.5 million pre-seed funding aimed at accelerating product development, expanding the team, and scaling operations to meet growing demand.

IBM is launching a new set of AI software engineering agents designed to autonomously resolve GitHub issues. The agents are being made available in an open-source licensing model.