#DevTools

[b0rroso]

[adafruit]

🎉New Pico 2 W just dropped - and CircuitPython is ready to go!🎉

We just got the OK to put the Pico 2 W in the shop. You can pick it up at

, and you might be wondering: hey, do you have CircuitPython built for it? The answer is YES! We have secretly added support, and v9.1.2 has a build ready. We'll be adding it to the

downloads page shortly, but if you've got one in hand before launch somehow, you can check out the builds in the Absolute Latest S3 Bucket

the pico 2w is a great upgrade with twice the speed, twice the SRAM and twice the flash memory, solving many frustrations folks had with the original Pico W.

[danielweasly]

Copilot Use Cases For Developers

Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing the way developers interact with development tools, providing AI-powered assistance across a range of Microsoft products like Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. With Copilot integrated into these environments, developers can streamline workflows, automate routine tasks, and leverage advanced features for improved productivity. For example, in Visual Studio, Copilot helps write code faster by suggesting context-aware completions, refactoring code, and even generating entire functions based on brief descriptions. This drastically reduces the time spent on boilerplate code and increases efficiency, allowing developers to focus on more creative and complex aspects of their projects.

Furthermore, Microsoft Copilot empowers developers to work smarter by integrating with cloud-based services like Azure. By leveraging machine learning and AI, it can suggest optimized solutions, recommend cloud resources, and assist in troubleshooting infrastructure issues. This level of automation and intelligent support enables developers to make better decisions quickly, while reducing the cognitive load and manual effort needed to manage cloud-based applications. As Microsoft Copilot continues to evolve, it will increasingly become an indispensable tool in the developer toolkit, transforming how software is built and deployed in today’s fast-paced technological landscape.

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[jcmarchi]

Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving

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Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving

I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much I enjoy developing with Polypane on my personal blog back in March 2023. In there, I say that I discover new things every time I open the browser up and I’m here to say that is still happening as of August 2024.

Polypane, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is a web browser specifically created to help developers in all sorts of different ways. The most obvious feature is the multiple panes displaying your project in various viewport sizes:

I’m not about to try to list every feature available in Polypane; I’ll leave that to friend and creator, Kilian Valkhof. Instead, I want to talk about a neat feature that I discovered recently.

Outline tab

Inside Polypane’s sidebar, you will find various tabs that provide different bits of information about your site. For example, if you are wondering how your social media previews will look for your latest blog post, Polypane has you covered in the Meta tab.

The tab I want to focus on though, is the Outline tab. On the surface, it seems rather straightforward, Polypane scans the page and provides you outlines for headings, landmarks, links, images, focus order, and even the full page accessibility tree.

Seeing your page this way helps you spot some pretty obvious mistakes, but Polypane doesn’t stop there. Checking the Show issues option will point out some of the not-so-obvious problems.

In the Landmarks view, there is an option to Show potentials as well, which displays elements that could potentially be page landmarks.

In these outline views, you also can show an overlay on the page and highlight where things are located.

Now, the reason I even stumbled upon these features within the Outline tab is due to a bug I was tracking down, one specifically related to focus order. So, I swapped over to the “Focus order” outline to inspect things further.

That’s when I noticed the option to see an overlay for the focus order.

This provides a literal map of the focus order of your page. I found this to be incredibly useful while troubleshooting the bug, as well as a great way to visualize how someone might navigate your website using a keyboard.

These types of seemingly small, but useful features are abundant throughout Polypane.

Amazing tool

When I reached out to Kilian, mentioning my discovery, his response was “Everything’s there when you need it!”

I can vouch for that.

[vidadelafuerza]

JavaScript Node.js PowerShell JSON Repeat

Lately, I've taken a lot of time to reacquaint myself with JavaScript usage in Node.js. Specifically, I'm learning all the basic things I enjoy doing in PowerShell: File manipulation (list, read, write) and data manipulation (parse, extract, interpret, summarize).

Specifically, my favorite thing is to see something of interest on a website and/or analyze a website's requests in the Network tab of DevTools (CTRL+SHIFT+I). It has to be something useful. Such things can be scraped for data I might want. The way I do that is in the Network tab of DevTools (Chrome, MS Edge). Looking at a request, I can right click and get the PowerShell (or other code) that would give me that exact same information in Windows Terminal. Then, I typically do an ad-hoc script to get what I want.

Current Web Scrape++ Project

The project that has my interest at the moment is one where I'm taking all the text of a copyrighted version of the Bible, then using DOM queries and JavaScript to get just the verse numbers and verse text per chapter from the HTML. It sounds as complicated as it is, but it's the kind of thing I do for fun.

Node.js comes into play when I want to loop through all the HTML I've pulled and sanitized. The sanitization wasn't easy. I kept only the HTML with actual Bible text - which reduced the HTML payload to less than 2% its original size. That part was in PowerShell and Visual Studio Code. But I digress.

Using the Console of DevTools, I already have the JavaScript I'll need to pull what I want from the HTML file data into an array of "verse" objects, which I can then easily translate to JSON and write out.

Next, my goal is to take the data, store it as JSON files, and then manipulate it with PowerShell. For instance, I wonder what it looks like if I replace the word "Lord" with "Earl" or "Duke". As silly as that sounds, that's the entire modus operandi for my project, which has been maybe as much as 6 to 8 hours. The rest probably won't take that long, but each step has to be pursued with the smallest steps I can think to make. (There's no use looping 1189 chapters / files of HTML text to get erroneous stuff, so I go small and then large.)

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Node.js 24 Released: Key Features and Developer Benefits

Node.js 24 is now available with powerful updates that boost app speed, security, and developer productivity. It includes the new V8 13.6 engine, which adds better performance and features like Float16Array, safer regular expressions, and smarter error handling.

This release also comes with npm 11, making package installs faster and more secure. Developers using Windows will now need to switch to the ClangCL compiler, which brings faster builds and fewer errors.

Other highlights include global access to the URLPattern API, better async context tracking, improved testing with automatic subtest handling, and the modern Undici 7 HTTP client with HTTP/2 support.

Node.js 24 also removes outdated APIs to improve security and performance. Upgrading helps future-proof your apps and ensures they run faster and more reliably.

Ready to upgrade your app stack?

[jackied0minguez]

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Will OpenAI Codex, The AI Coding Agent, Replace Software Engineers?

Introduction: The Rise of AI in Software Development

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently the most disruptive technology in tech, and OpenAI Codex, the powerful AI coding agent, is at the forefront. Built on the same tech powering ChatGPT, Codex can write code, build applications, and automate mundane programming tasks. But the question on every programmer's mind is: Can OpenAI Codex substitute for software engineers?

Let's dive deep into this groundbreaking tech and explore its impact on software engineering careers.

What Is OpenAI Codex?

OpenAI Codex is a powerful AI model that has been trained on billions of lines of public code in repositories like GitHub. It is able to read natural language and translate it into working code in various programming languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Java, and more. From developing simple scripts to generating full-fledged apps, Codex acts like an amplified coding assistant.

Major Features:

Autocompletes code according to context

Translates plain English into working code

Generates boilerplate and redundant code skeletons

Builds websites, games, and even APIs from scratch

Will Codex Replace Software Engineers?

 Short answer: No way. But it will radically change the way developers develop.

1. Automation of Repetitive Work Codex excels at automating boring tasks like generating test cases, boilerplate code, and API wrapping. This frees engineers to focus on higher-level logic and design decisions.

2. Prototyping and MVP Creation Much Faster Startups and small teams can use Codex to speed up prototyping. It allows solo founders or junior engineers to make things happen without needing a big engineering organization.

3. Skill Enhancement, Not Replacement For experienced developers, Codex is an accelerator, not a replacement. It's a syntax assistant that suggests better code patterns, even for debugging—it's like having a live pair programmer.

Limitations of Codex: Why Human Engineers Still Matter

Despite its prowess, Codex has major flaws:

Does Not Understand Deep Context: It cannot fully grasp business logic or domain complexity.

Error-Prone for Hard Cases: Codex can produce buggy or vulnerable code without human oversight.

No Architectural Choices: AI is still not capable of writing scalable systems or trade-offs in architectural design.

Software development isn't all about writing code—it's about solving problems, collaborating with others, and releasing maintainable, secure code. AI can't replace those qualities of human-ness, at least not today.

The Future: Human-AI Partnership in Software Engineering

Rather than replacing jobs, OpenAI Codex will redefine them. What software engineers do will shift from being code writers to AI-powered problem solvers. Developers will need to adapt, learning how to operate in concert with AI tools.

Just like calculators did not render mathematicians redundant, Codex will not render software engineers redundant. It will, however, become the essential tool for every developer.

Conclusion: Adapt, Don't Fear OpenAI Codex is a gigantic leap forward in development by AI, but it's not a killer project—because it's a game-changer. Codex offers excellent opportunities to get smarter and faster for those willing to evolve with the technology. The future isn't about AI vs engineers—but AI and engineers working together to build the future.

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[adafruit]

CP2105 dual UART breakout 🔌💻

Sometimes, you need more than one UART for interfacing with hardware. So instead of getting two CP2102 breakouts

you could use this CP2105

chip. We exposed the two CDC UARTs on either side plus the modem control signals so you could use this for bootloading various microcontrollers. Coming soon!

[nareshitofficial]

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