Microsoft just announced Project Zenith, a new Windows 11 experience for developers. Devices will come with dev tools preinstalled and settings pre-enabled to tailor to developer workflows.
Renting a cloud gaming subscription starts to feel wasteful once you notice you already own a decent game library and just need horsepower on demand. That is the pitch behind self-hosting: spin up a GPU instance on AWS, install the open-source pair Sunshine and Moonlight, and stream your own games to any laptop, phone, or…
NES emulation looks like a solved problem until you actually try to pick a program. Type “best NES emulator” into a search bar in September 2026 and you get three names that keep surfacing: Mesen (now on its second major build, commonly called Mesen2), Nestopia UE, and FCEUX. Each one has a different reason to…
Three of the biggest peripheral makers on the planet all shipped Hall effect keyboards within a few weeks of each other this year, and none of them were built with programmers in mind. Razer’s Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic line launched July 30, 2026, as the company’s first true magnetic-switch family. Corsair followed with the Vanguard…
Component-driven development stopped being a nice-to-have around the time design systems became mandatory at most product companies, and by September 2026 the tool most teams reach for to build and test components in isolation is Storybook 10. The catch: React and Vue projects wire it up differently enough that copy-pasting a React tutorial into a…
Shadow PC users have had a rough stretch in 2026. The service split its lineup into Lite, Neo, and Power tiers, added a 120-hour Fair Use cap on the cheaper plans, and left the promised “additional hours” add-on unshipped as of late August. If you’re one of the people who opened a support ticket after…
Local development setups are losing ground fast. A growing share of engineering teams now spin up a full workspace in a browser tab instead of installing a toolchain on a laptop, and three platforms are absorbing most of that shift: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod (now rebranded as Ona), and Google Cloud Workstations. Each promises the same…
Crowdsourced security has quietly become the default way large enterprises test their own defenses. Instead of booking a two-week engagement with a boutique pentest firm once a year, companies from Anthropic to the U.S. Department of Defense now run continuous programs on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, or Synack — platforms that route findings from thousands of vetted…
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Typing a GameShark code into a Game Boy Advance cartridge in 2004 meant fumbling with a plastic dongle and a printed booklet. In 2026, the process happens inside mGBA’s cheat editor, and most players still get it wrong on the first try. A mistyped hex digit doesn’t just fail silently — it can freeze your…