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Picking up and sending email is a very difficult thing to do, but it can be done This is an extract from our intermediate-level book on the Pico's Wifi capabilities.

If you do any advanced work in graphics, sooner or later you will meet the Quadtree or its 3D relation, the Octree. For this reason alone they are worth knowing about, but they are also something you should have in your armory of data structures.

Programming News and Views

The Dev Barometer Q2 2026 reveals how AI is resetting the hiring baseline for junior engineers, and what juniors and seniors agree job-readiness now requires. The report also reveals a perception gap: juniors believe AI improves their understanding, but seniors see limited comprehension.

On July 5, 2026, for the very first time, two 11-humanoid-robot teams faced each other to play soccer. This historic event took place as part of the 2026 RoboCup World Championship of Robotics held in Incheon, South Korea and marked a significant breakthrough.

ECMA International has approved ECMAScript 2026, the latest specification for JavaScript. This is the 17th edition, and it adds methods for arrays, encoding, iterators, JSON, math and maps.

Udacity has just launched a four-month Nanodegree Program that prepares developers to build and ship production-grade AI agent systems with Anthropic's Claude. It is just in time for prospective participants to take advantage of its Summer Sale. Enrol today, before 15:59 PT using code “JULY4TH50” for 50% off.

This book offers an overview of machine learning and its most important practical applications. Then, Luca Massaron and John Paul Mueller dive into the tools, code, and math that make machine learning go, and readers get step-by-step instructions for testing it out on your own. With clear explanations and hands-on instruction, Machine Learning For Dummies is a good entry-level resource for de [ ... ]

Visual Studio Code 1.127 has been released with agents that can build and test web apps in the browser, safer per-site browsing, and new ways to keep busy agent sessions organized.

pg_durable is a Microsoft developed PostgreSQL extension that integrates fault-tolerant, long-running execution directly into the database.

Here's a new role for drones - to substitute for aquarium fish that  don't need feeding our to have their tank to be cleaned out and still provide a colourful and soothing spectale. And you can even play games with them.

MuseumSCAT is a new Kaggle challenge designed to categorise Danish Dung beetles - or at least their handwritten labels. The challenge is to develop machine learning models that can accurately transcribe handwritten and machine written collection date and locality information from historical natural history specimen labels.

AI-fokus, a spin off of Jfokus, is a conference focusing
on the evolution of agentic AI and its practical implementation in software development.

Apache has released the latest version of the NetBeans cross-platform IDE. Version 30 updates the minimum Java version required to build, test, and run the IDE to JDK 21. There are also updated build tools and enhanced language support.

Deno 2.9 has been released with a new way to build native desktop applications from the standard web stack, with no Electron boilerplate and a single binary at the end.

Book Watch

In this detailed introduction to Python and to computer programming, Dmitry Zinoviev explains exactly what happens when your programs are executed, with real-world examples showing how to work with numbers, text, sequences, and files. This new edition takes advantage of Python 3.14's new features, including f-strings, the walrus operator, and richer type annotations on parameters, return types, and variable declarations.

This book is a field guide to leading through the chaos that happens when things go wrong. Drawing on decades of experience inside some of the most complex systems in industry and government, Marina Nitze, Matthew Weaver, and Mikey Dickerson, of the crisis engineering firm Layer Aleph, reveal their hands-on framework for navigating high-stakes crises. From the rescue of HealthCare.gov to wildfire response and pandemic logistics, this book offers real-world stories, practical tools, and hard-won insights into how complex systems fail, and how to help them recover.

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