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Lucan Carlson talks about Automic's campaign to bring DevOps style automation and practices to everyone in a business, regardless of their role.

Anyone interested in getting started with programming robots should check out this interview. Learn what it takes to program a robot.

Humans have always loved tech. But we're quite a ways from stone tools, and this new tech raises some interesting ethical conundrums for developers.

Design for people, but write for ears. Get this and more wisdom in this short writer's guide to creating conversational interfaces that use AI to communicate.

Jovo aims to create a development framework that allows you to write code once and deliver to multiple voice platforms, taking out a lot of the extra work.

If you are a dev and an artist, you might be interested to know there's an AI that could help you with your musician's block.

Read about the most exciting developments from this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, like IoT, Google assistant, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.

We hear promises of how blockchain will revolutionize tech, but most of its applications thus far seem rather mundane. Read on to see what devs are doing to change that.

In Part 2 of this round on SXSW, Chris looks at what people had to say about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the problems with tech.

Emoshape has created what they call the first emotional processing unit (EPU) dedicated to understanding and putting a value on human emotions.

Skymind combines open-source and custom tooling to create two main toolchains that integrate well with other frequently used tools in the data science tool bag.

Read this fun article about how to create a Twitter bot with Tracery.

Take a look at this developer's reflection on African involvement in technology and the challenges that African entrepreneurs and technologists face.

The latest cloud and DevOps news from Berlin.

We're bringing you more from KubeCon with the Product Manager of Kubernetes and AI from Canonical.

I create a lot of content with audio. Interviews that become final podcasts, final podcasts, videos, and more. In almost all cases, a transcript of that audio is useful. Often, I use it to create a blog post based on that audio, and I am also in the process of creating interactive transcripts for my backlog of podcasts. And that aside, accompanying transcriptions of shows are good for SEO and accessibility.

JetBrains is known for its variety of developer-focused IDEs, all based around its IntelliJ core. In recent years, they developed their own writer-focussed plugin, Grazie, for handling grammar and style guidance, Writerside for a wide variety of tech writing tasks, and more recently, an AI assistant for writers. The company has also helped with community-maintained plugins such as those for markdown and asciidoc. But then, a year or so ago, JetBrains announced that Writerside would become a fully-fledged tech writing IDE. I've been using it on and off for some time, and in this post, I take a look at some of its features, recent updates, and related plugins.

Who do you think reads most of your technical writing? Customers? Potential customers?

On May 23rd 2025, the MySQL database celebrated its 30th anniversary. Look at the usage trends for databases on DB-engine and MySQL and its owner since 2010, Oracle's own product occupy the top two spots. However, the same rankings show that the popularity of most of the top four is declining, especially for MySQL. It has been in slow decline since the era of "cloud computing" began, but like many other areas of technology, it is the demands of and for artificial intelligence (AI) that are causing the most pressure. As it celebrates its 30th year, what is the project doing to remain relevant and competitive in the new AI age? With rivals hot on its tail and some of its biggest competitors offering fully compatible, free alternatives, how does it plan to survive for another 30 years?

The Opera Web browser, first introduced 30 years ago, has over its long tenure helped to pioneer features that would later become commonplace among all Web browsers—including tabs, sync, and built-in search. Opera was among the first to introduce a built-in AI assistant (Aria) as well as the ability to use locally running models with its developer version. Now, Opera aims to be the first to offer a new kind of AI agent–based browsing, with a feature called Browser Operator.

Autocomplete has existed on macOS in some form for years, and it's always been inconsistent. I tried Cotypist, an AI-powered autocomplete tool that works across almost every app on the Mac, to see if it does a better job.

API documentation is generally predictable, follows common patterns, and is one of the least interesting tasks in a documentation project. It's also a task with a degree of pre-existing automatic generation tools and practices. It sounds like a perfect use case for AI-assistive tools! In this post, I look at general and specialized tools for generating API documentation from code and text-based prompts. I also cover potential problems and pitfalls in generated docs and how to test the generated output to ensure its accuracy.

There aren't many desktop tools for technical writing that are native to macOS and iPadOS. adoc Studio is one of the few, built specifically around AsciiDoc. I covered it before, and the team has been busy since. Here's what's new in versions 4 and 5, including export options, accessibility tools, multilingual support, and AI features.

AI tools are transforming how we approach complex problems by automating tasks, enhancing decision-making, and fostering collaboration. This article explores the impact of AI on my software development work, ethical considerations, and the future of problem-solving in the AI-driven era.

I tested OpenMusic to generate a dramatic confession-style backing track for a theatre project, a reality TV take on Antony and Cleopatra. Beyond the usual prompt-based generation, it has stem splitting and MIDI tools that are actually useful for music production.

Opera Neon is a new browser with an AI assistant that interacts with web pages on your behalf, completing tasks that typically require manual clicking, typing, and navigation. In this post, I test the browser with real tasks to see how well it performs.

TypeBoost is an AI personal assistant that helps boost writing productivity by allowing you to apply prompts to text in any application. In this post, I test the tool to see how well it performs and how much it improves my productivity.