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With jQuery 4, the key idea is the jQuery object but this is subtle and needs some thought. This is an exclusive extract from Ian Elliot's book on jQuery 4.

Building a TimeInterval object is not only useful in itself, it also demonstrates how to use objects in JavaScript without pretending that it is a class-based, typed language. Find out how object augmentation replaces inheritance.

Programming News and Views

The results of Devographics State of AI 2026 are out. They show that use of AI by Web Devs has doubled since the previous survey a year ago and that Claude Code is by far the most popular AI Assistant.

There was a time when Google I/O was a fun time to discover new ideas, but this year there seems to be just one idea - AI. This isn't totally unreasonable given the big changes AI can bring about, but as the main theme for an annual event it seems totally obvious and without a shred of creativity.

Udacity's latest promotional offer of "60% off across all its AI and Tech courses is billed as its "Biggest Sale of the Year". This discount extends to its Masters of Science Degree in Artificial Intelligence and makes an already good deal twice as good.

The full materials of the MIT 6.S191 lecture which took place just this March are now available for free and for all. This lecture is a comprehensive overview of deep learning architectures, specifically focusing on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Transformers.

Ever since Arm dropped the mbed operating system, Arduino has had a problem of what to do with its mbed-based systems. The solution was to adopt Zephyr and while it make sense it might have been a big mistake.

Jupyter gets its own MCP server. The Jupyter MCP Server by Datalayer is a Model Context Protocol server implementation designed to act as a bridge between Large Language Models, AI assistants and a user's live Jupyter environment. What does it enable?

Replicating the human hand is one of the hardest challenges in robotics. Now Genesis AI has released GENE-26.5, a new AI model that enables a robot to handle everyday objects with the truly human precision and dexterity. Let's see it in action:

A 3-hour course from JetBrains Academy on the Coursera Platform guides you through all the stages of creating a 3D browser game using Webstorm and an AI coding agent of your choice and JetBrains has rewards if you submit your game by May 31st.

A Kaggle contest with prizes of $50,000 has launched with an entry deadline of July 29, 2026. The challenge is to build ML models that contribute to automating drilling operations in the oil and gas industry.

It is always good to know what you are about to get. In the case of Python 3.15 we now have a reasonably reliable list of features that will be delivered by the end of the year.

Microsoft's extends the capabilities of the AI coding agents through Agent Skills for .NET framework-oriented tasks.

Book Watch

Analog and hybrid computing have been almost forgotten for decades, but interest in these technologies is rising as they offer a viable path to high-speed and highly energy-efficient computing for the 21st century. Prof. Dr. Bernd Ulmann says the might offer solutions for a variety of applications ranging from high performance computing, edge computing, medical applications, to artificial intelligence. The book covers the history of analog computers from the Antikythera mechanism to recent developments of reconfi gurable systems.

With the subtitle, "Build Web Apps That Don't Break", this book will make it easier to debug TypeScript applications, showing you both useful (and underused) features of your browser’s developer console and also ways of writing your code that makes it easier to test (and less likely to need debugging in the first place). Andrey Ozornin starts from a foundation of process methodologies and software design principles, and continues on through practical techniques like logging and interactive debugging before arriving at monitoring and debuggability.

In this book Simon Rogers, Google's data editor, explores insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you. Every June, for instance, the world sees a spike in searches for “How to help a bee.” People consistently want to know, “Where to donate blood?” after natural disasters.

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