The Git Shadow: Why Mercurial Still Matters Two Decades After Its Debut
Two decades after its launch, Mercurial remains a critical piece of software infrastructure despite the global dominance of Git. We dive into its survival and current state.
Tag: Open Source
The Ghost in the Machine: How Fisker Ocean Owners Refused to Let Their Cars Brick
After Fisker Inc.'s bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean SUVs without software support, a community of owners and developers stepped in to prevent a mass-bricking event.
Claude Code Just Proved ‘Vibecoding’ is Real by Porting Adobe Lightroom to Linux
A new GitHub repository reveals that Anthropic's Claude Code autonomous agent successfully ported Adobe Lightroom CC to Linux using Wine 11.8 staging.
Zig 0.16 Introduces Standardized I/O, But Developers Are Already Looking to Third-Party Runtimes for True Async Performance
Zig 0.16 brings a cross-platform I/O interface, but the current threaded implementation struggles with scale. See how the Zio library is filling the gap.