Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS, Tiny ES5-Focused JavaScript Engine
TL;DR Fabrice Bellard published MicroQuickJS, a compact JavaScript engine designed for embedded systems that can run with as little as…
Bridge Anonymization: Local, reversible PII scrubber for translation pipelines
TL;DR A TypeScript library called bridge-anonymization masks and later restores PII to enable safe use of external translation and LLM…
X-ray: Python library that finds faulty redactions and exposed text in PDFs
TL;DR Free Law Project released x-ray, an open-source Python tool that detects ineffective redactions in PDF files. It scans PDFs…
Avoid Mini-Frameworks: Why Small Internal Frameworks Cause Lasting Pain
TL;DR An engineer who worked on Google Ads infrastructure warns against teams building 'mini-frameworks' on top of shared stacks. These…
How compilers turn simple loops into closed-form math: a surprising optimization
TL;DR A code example summing integers up to a value triggered markedly different optimizations in GCC and clang. GCC kept…
SPICE at 40: The open-source simulator that shaped modern IC design
TL;DR SPICE, originally developed at UC Berkeley, was celebrated as a four-decade open-source success with an IEEE Milestone designation and…
Vibium: Browser automation for AI agents and human developers
TL;DR Vibium is a new browser automation tool that bundles a small Go binary with a JavaScript client to let…
Python 3.14 Released With Optional Free-Threading and Experimental JIT
TL;DR Python 3.14 introduces full PEP 703 free-threading support, concurrent interpreters, debugger improvements and an opt-in faster interpreter. Free-threaded builds…
Meta transfers React, React Native and JSX to Linux Foundation React Foundation
TL;DR Meta is contributing React, React Native and JSX to a new React Foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation. The…
Bun 1.3 expands JS runtime with wide-ranging tools and features
TL;DR Bun 1.3 bundles many new capabilities into the Zig-written JavaScript runtime, adding server tooling, database clients, Redis support, isolated…