Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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New iPhone RumoredBBC: "Industry watchers are speculating that a new iPhone will also be released around the same time as the software upgrade. "It wouldn't… Started by Michael Levin |
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iPhone Open Application Development, by Jonathan ZdziarskiiPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone looks at Objective-C to get you started and then… Started by Michael Levin |
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iPhone Dev ShopsWar Drum Studios is a local (Gainesville) iPhone development shop. Their specialty is games for the iPhone. One of their products is Texas… Started by Michael Levin |
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Mar 21, 2009 Reply by Michael Levin |
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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex, multi-step development tasks.
By Sergio De Simone
Shopify has updated its Checkout Blocks app, transitioning five high-traffic checkout UI extensions to remote-dom using Preact and Polaris web components. The rewrite, which involved moving to TypeScript and a new API version, led to significant reductions in bundle sizes and load times. From October 1, 2026, only the updated versions will be supported.
By Daniel Curtis
GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated testing, human review, and 128 pull requests while continuing to ship releases.
By Leela Kumili
CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand.
By Craig Risi
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and graph databases. They explain how unifying MELT telemetry into queryable knowledge graphs enables automated triaging, root-cause analysis, and self-healing systems.
By Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva
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