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Here's a Swampcast featuring Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist. Enjoy!
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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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AWS Interconnect reached general availability, offering managed private Layer 3 connections to Google Cloud and a last-mile capability via Lumen. Azure and OCI support is planned for later in 2026. AWS published the underlying specification on GitHub under Apache 2.0, which Forrester analysts read as a play to set a de facto standard for multicloud connectivity.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the problem where large pull requests are hard to review, slow to merge and prone to conflicts, with GitHub stating that reviewers lose context, feedback quality drops, and the whole team slows down.
By Matt Saunders
AWS has introduced the public preview of OpenTelemetry metrics support in Amazon CloudWatch. This update allows developers to send metrics directly to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry protocol and view them alongside existing AWS service metrics.
By Renato Losio
To sustain productivity in long-running agent systems, Slack engineers moved away from accumulating chat logs and started using structured memory, validation, and distilled truth to maintain coherence and accuracy of long-running agent systems.
By Sergio De Simone
Google Cloud has introduced Agents CLI within its Agent Platform, aiming to streamline the development lifecycle of AI agents from local prototyping to production deployment. The release targets a common challenge in agent development, where tooling and infrastructure are often fragmented across multiple services and environments.
By Robert Krzaczyński
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