Managing libraries for Arduino boards has traditionally been a time-consuming and error-prone process. Developers often had to manually search for, download, and configure libraries, which could be ...

Astral, which makes high-performance Python tools such as the Ruff linter, has launched uv, an “extremely fast” Python package installer and resolver written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

Hacking the iPhone just got a lot easier. There's now a GUI package installer available that aims to make it dead simple to get the coolest new “native” apps running on your iPhone. The appropriately ...

Google released the third developer preview for Android N last week at Google I/O. We’ve already found a slew of new features and changes in this update to Android N – some of them big, some of them ...

The whole thing made a lot more sense to me once I started treating my system as code, not a pile of Ubuntu-style tweaks.

Possible fix for filename truncation bug We continue to cover an issue file names being truncated when copying files, especially when copying to/from a remote volume. A new workaround for the issue, ...