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This $5,000 Berkeley Humanoid Can Be Built With a Desktop 3D Printer

A humanoid robot you can build with a desktop 3D printer is lowering the barrier to experimenting with machines that usually cost far more. Researc...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 9:23 pm

How Open Source Builds the Soft Skills Technical Leaders Need

Software engineers often view soft skills as secondary, considering them relevant mainly for managers, recruiters, or those frequently in meetings,...
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 1:00 pm

The 2026 Observability Audit: Separating Single Vendor Silos From Community Innovation

Open source projects dominated by a single vendor are a hallmark of "open source in name only." Rather than filling the traditional role of open so...
Posted on 26 August 2026 | 12:00 pm

How Open Source Builds the Hard Skills Technical Leaders Need

Software engineers often feel most comfortable with hard skills, such as writing code, studying frameworks, experimenting with databases, reviewing...
Posted on 25 August 2026 | 6:00 pm

Open Source as a Leadership Lab for Software Engineers

Leadership is challenging to develop in isolation. While you can practice programming, architecture, or databases independently, leadership relies ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 5:00 pm

From raw manifests to self-service Kubernetes apps: creating enterprise-ready open platforms

Sponsored By: NutanixThe following is sponsored content. It may not reflect the views of our editorial staff. Th...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 4:27 pm

The Java Story: The Official Documentary Is Here

The Java Story | The Official Documentary provides more than a retrospective on one of the most influential programming languages. Tracing Java’s j...
Posted on 29 July 2026 | 1:00 pm

Developer’s Checklist: How to Build an FHE Application

For most developers, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) application development is uncharted territory. FHE allows you to compute on data without e...
Posted on 6 July 2026 | 6:00 pm

From Polling to PubSub: Building an Asynchronous OPC UA Stack in Python

Industrial control systems are generating more data than ever before, but the Python tooling used to process this telemetry often encounters severe...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 6:00 pm

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners' Guide for Contributing to our CNCF Project Docs

This series is a general-purpose getting-started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project ...
Posted on 8 June 2026 | 2:30 pm

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners' Guide for Contributing to Our CNCF Project Website

This series is a general-purpose getting-started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project ...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 7:00 pm

How I Fixed a Silent Production Bug in Apache Airflow That Affected Thousands of Deployments

The Issue That Stopped Me I was browsing Apache Airflow's open issues one evening — something I do when I want to understand the parts of the codeb...
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 12:00 pm

Accelerating Your Software Engineering Career With Open Source and Jakarta EE

For decades, software engineering followed a relatively predictable path: learn the language, master the tools, deliver results, and progress. That...
Posted on 8 April 2026 | 11:00 pm

Deterministic AI With OpenSymbolicAI

While AI agents have shifted programming away from deterministic algorithms toward probabilistic LLMs, there remains concern that the lack of deter...
Posted on 6 March 2026 | 12:00 pm

A Practical Guide to Building Generative AI in Java

Building generative AI applications in Java used to be a complex, boilerplate-heavy endeavor. You’d wrestle with raw HTTP clients, hand-craft JSON ...
Posted on 26 February 2026 | 4:00 pm

Open Notebook: A Secure Alternative to Google NotebookLM

Google NotebookLM is a powerful AI tool for interacting with your documents. However, privacy concerns might prevent you from uploading sensitive d...
Posted on 17 February 2026 | 2:45 pm

Automating Behavioral Evaluations for LLMs: A Practical Guide to Bloom

If you've ever deployed a large language model (LLM) in production, you might know the uncertainty that comes with it. Will the model refuse a legi...
Posted on 5 February 2026 | 3:00 pm

The Messaging Challenges No One Talks About in Regulated, Air-Gapped, and Hybrid Environments

The modern platform engineering mandate is clear: adopt Kubernetes, embrace microservices, and accelerate velocity. In theory, this leads to effici...
Posted on 20 January 2026 | 5:00 pm

The Rise of Diskless Kafka: Rethinking Brokers, Storage, and the Kafka Protocol

Apache Kafka has come a long way from being just a scalable data ingestion layer for data lakes. Today, it is the backbone of real-time transaction...
Posted on 9 January 2026 | 7:00 pm

Cloud to Local Copilots: A Hybrid Path to Privacy and Control

Software usage patterns have always evolved alongside hardware capabilities. In recent years, with the rise of GPUs and cloud-based AI copilots suc...
Posted on 2 January 2026 | 6:00 pm