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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in Rampdown, JDK 26 Expert Group, Hibernate Search, Project Crema
This week's Java roundup for June 2nd, 2025 features news highlighting: JDK 25 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 26 Expert Group; the release of Hibernate Search 8.0.0.Final; the fourth milestone release of Grails 7.0.0; the beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.6; point releases for Eclipse JNoSQL, Helidon and JBang; and a sneak peek into a new Oracle Labs project, Project Crema.
By Michael RedlichRust-Based Drop-in Replacement for Vite Released, Early Adopters Report 10X Faster Builds
Evan You, the creator of the Vue.JS front-end framework, recently announced a technical preview for rolldown-vite, a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler written in Rust. Early adopters (e.g., Excalidraw, GitLab) report 3-16x faster builds and dramatically reduced memory usage.
By Bruno CouriolSurfing the Web at Scale: Orca Explores a Human-Guided Future for AI Agents
Researchers at UC San Diego have released Orca, an open-source system that demonstrates how large language models (LLMs) can assist users on the web—not by taking control, but by guiding interaction.
By Matt FosterAnthropic Open-Sources Tool to Trace the "Thoughts" of Large Language Models
Anthropic researchers have open-sourced the tool they used to trace what goes on inside a large language model during inference. It includes a circuit tracing Python library that can be used with any open-weights model and a frontend hosted on Neuropedia to explore the library output through a graph.
By Sergio De SimoneGoogle’s “What’s New in Web UI” Talk: Less Custom Component JavaScript, More Web Standards
Una Kravets recently presented in a talk recent developments in Web UI supported by the Chrome team. Some common UI patterns that currently require a significant amount of JavaScript may soon be implemented in a declarative manner with new features of HTML and CSS, with less custom JavaScript, and with built-in accessibility.
By Bruno Couriol
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