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A fundamental is how fast GPIOs are. This extract from Programming the ESP32 RISC V in MicroPython, part of the I Programmer Library, shows you how to work with GPIO.

Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson produced both Unix and C, two groundbreaking inventions that have shaped computer programming. This  account of how it all happened is posted to mark what would have been Ritchie's 85th birthday..

Programming News and Views

Open AI has announced an AI-generated proof of the Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Whether it is accepted as a fully verified solution is now the subject of intense academic scrutiny, but Open AI has already said it doesn't intend to claim the million-dollar prize.

So the deed is done - Zephyr is now Arduino's operating system. After a lot of work it has now reached Version 1.0 and is fully part of the Arduino family. This is good, but it raises some interesting questions.

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 with a go-live support license, so it can be used in production applications.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education course aims to teach students essential tools and techniques that are often overlooked in the traditional computer science curriculum.

Visual Studio Code 1.136 has been released with multi-root workspaces for agent sessions, and a redesigned new-session input that brings the prompt, model selection, workspace selection, and other session controls together in one layout.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache Iggy has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Iggy is a hyper-efficient, persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, built for predictable ultra-low latency and a minimal infrastructure footprint.

On August 31st, 2026, the Zuse Computer Museum (ZCOM),  in Hoyerswerda, Saxony, closed its regular permanent exhibition doors and the collection it has amassed faces dispersal by the end of the year. Can anything be done to preserve this unique heritage?

Researchers at the University of Berkeley have demonstrated Berkeley Humanoid Lite, an open-source, accessible, and customizable 3D-printed humanoid robot.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is moving away from using versions of Linux based on Red Hat distributions to use Debian instead - for at least part of its infrastructure.

Polygres is a specialized platform designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with advanced search and retrieval capabilities.

Microsoft has announced Project Zenith, describing it as a ready-to-code distraction-free Windows experience on developer-class devices with 64 GB+ unified memory and 250+ GB/s memory bandwidth.

Book Watch

This book puts the core principles of the language on full display rather than treating it as a collection of syntax rules. In the updated fourth edition, David A Black and Joseph Leo III tell a clear programming story: start with basic language literacy, explore how objects and methods interact, build a strong foundation in object-oriented design, and finally move into dynamic features like runtime introspection.

Semantics, applied to data, is the discipline of making meaning explicit, consistent, and durable. Semantic data layers are the architectural expression of that discipline. This book shows you how to build them. Dave Wells argues that data management has always been messy. Inconsistent metrics, brittle integrations, data silos, and confusing dashboards persist even after heavy investment in data lakes, warehouses, pipelines, BI tools, metadata catalogs, and modern platforms. At the core, these are not technology problems; they’re problems of meaning.

This book traces the shift in entertainment from studios and networks to feeds and ranking systems. From Netflix’s streaming pivot to YouTube’s industrialized creator model, from infinite scroll to algorithmic dominance, Darren Cross shows how infrastructure rather than talent began deciding what gets seen, what gets paid, and what endures. This is a systems-level account of how platforms consolidated control while appearing to democratize culture—and what survives inside that architecture.

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