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I've been working as Software Developer mainly focussed on Java and builts many application using Eclipse RCP framework or VS Code Application. Almost all the time I had to deal with multiple large files (either read/generate/validate) them which seemed very difficult and some of them almost impossible as most of them would be dependant on each other and would be referencing each other (just like how java files work together). Now assume client1 requires the same content in multiple Json files and client2 needs it in xml files. We couldn't go on writing a different application or go on adding if conditions and blah blah blah !!!! Wouldn't it be easier if as soon as I execute the application it generates the content in whatever format I choose and also taking care of dependencies/ references (like adding import statements). Additionally integrate with features of IDE and provide proposals, perform validations on the fly. Rela World Examples : Try googling Arxml once (Trust me I've dealing with these files for almost 7 years and it's always a nightmare to debug these) Solution: Xtext framework In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Eclipse Xtext and Xtend to build a simple, readable DSL that automatically generates Java boilerplate for you. Fair Warning: There will be no running executions screenshots or anything. You are gonna have to run it yourself and check the results and of course questions are always welcome in the comments section. But if for some reason you are unable to replicate this then let me know I'll try to explain further. I believe the best way to learn is by doing it yourself. The Goal: What are we building? Instead of writing 100 lines of Java with private fields, getters, and setters, we want our developers to write 5 lines of code in our own custom language (basically you can create your own programming language with your own custom syntax), like this: entity User { var name : String var age : Integer } When this file (assume file extension

Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept where I had to build columns of items moving in opposite directions when a user scrolls the page. CodePen Embed Fallback Note: This … Using Scroll-Driven Animations for Opposing Scroll Directions originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

By Sergio Colque Ponce — Software Engineering, Universidad Privada de Tacna. Full source code: github.com/srg-cp/spec-driven-development If you have used an AI coding agent — Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI — you have probably lived this moment: you describe a feature, the agent produces code that compiles and looks right, and then it quietly does the wrong thing. The agent is not weak; the input was ambiguous. We have been treating coding agents like search engines when they behave more like very literal pair programmers. Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is the answer to that problem: instead of jumping straight to code, you write down what you want and why , refine it, and only then let the implementation follow. The specification — not the code — becomes the center of the project. What Spec-Driven Development actually is The idea is old (anyone who has written a Product Requirements Document will recognize it), but it has become practical again thanks to tools like GitHub's open-source Spec Kit . Spec Kit organizes the work into a small set of Markdown artifacts, each feeding the next: Constitution — the non-negotiable principles of the project (security rules, coding standards, architectural constraints). Spec — what you are building and why , with no implementation detail. Plan — the technical blueprint derived from the spec (stack, structure, decisions). Tasks — the plan broken into small, ordered, verifiable steps. Implement — the agent (or you) builds the tasks, with the previous artifacts as structured context. The workflow is usually summarized as Spec → Plan → Tasks → Implement , and the same process is meant to work regardless of language, framework, or which of the 30+ supported agents you use. The real shift is not "more documents." It is this: when requirements change, you update the spec, regenerate the plan, and let the implementation follow — instead of patching code and hoping the intent survives. The spec is a living artifact, not a dusty Word file

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

A conversation between Uncle (a backend architect) and Nephew (a curious developer) about events, publishers, subscribers, Redis Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka The Beginning: What is an Event? 👦 Nephew: Uncle, I see words like "Redis Pub/Sub", "RabbitMQ", "Kafka" everywhere in job descriptions. What do they all do? Are they the same thing? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: (smiles) No, they're different. But before I confuse you with names, let me ask you something. Have you ever watched the news on TV? 👦 Nephew: Yes uncle, every morning! 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Perfect! So when the news channel says "Breaking News: India won the cricket match" - what happened? 👦 Nephew: Something important occurred... and they announced it! 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Exactly! That "something important occurred" is called an Event . In software, when something happens - like a user placing an order, a payment succeeding, or a file uploading - that's an event. 👦 Nephew: So event = something that happened? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Yes! Think of it as news. When you place an order at Zomato, that's an event. When you get a payment notification from Google Pay, that's an event. When someone follows you on Instagram, that's an event. 👦 Nephew: Okay, I get it. But uncle, why is this "event" concept important? I can just write code directly, right? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Ah! That's where the real story begins... The Problem: Spaghetti Code 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Imagine you own a food delivery company. A customer places an order. Now, what all needs to happen? 👦 Nephew: Umm... save the order, send email confirmation, alert the restaurant? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Good! Let me write the code without events: function placeOrder ( orderId ) { saveOrder ( orderId ); sendEmailConfirmation ( orderId ); sendSMSNotification ( orderId ); notifyRestaurant ( orderId ); updateAnalyticsDashboard ( orderId ); addLoyaltyPoints ( orderId ); updateInventory ( orderId ); } Now, one day your boss says "Also send WhatsApp notification". What do you do? 👦 Nephew: Add another function call in the same code? 👨‍🦳 Unc

Rivian's second EV is the sub-$60,000 R2, and it was worth the wait.

I've said one and mean another, and I've used one when I needed another. Please bear with me as I note the similarities and differences between scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my future self. Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

Uber introduced a high-throughput financial ledger processing system designed to handle hot account write contention at scale. Using 250ms batching, Redis coordination, and optimistic atomic updates, the system supports 30+ updates per second per account while preserving consistency and auditability, reducing multi-hour processing pipelines to minutes in its distributed accounting infrastructure. By Leela Kumili

Six months ago, our React app's animation stack looked like a dependency graveyard: Rive for interactive vector graphics GSAP for timeline-based UI animations Lottie for JSON animations imported from design Framer Motion for React-specific transitions Plus a few hand-rolled CSS animations for good measure Four tools. Four mental models. Four runtime dependencies. And a growing gap between what designers shipped and what developers could maintain. We consolidated everything into a single visual runtime. Here's what actually happened. The Problem Nobody Talks About Animation tools are great in isolation. The cracks appear when you need a single component to do multiple things: A button that plays a Rive animation on hover, transitions with Framer Motion on click, and shows a Lottie loading state A card that animates into view with GSAP , has hover states in Rive , and a pressed state in CSS A form that validates with Framer Motion shake animations, loads with Lottie spinners, and succeeds with a Rive celebration Each tool handles its piece. None of them talk to each other. You end up writing coordination code that's more complex than the animations themselves. What We Switched To We moved to ExodeUI — a visual runtime that combines state machines with vector rendering. Instead of four tools plus coordination code, we have: One editor where designers define visual states as nodes One file format that stores both appearance and behavior One export that generates production React components One runtime that renders everything natively The pitch sounds almost too clean. We were skeptical too. What We Actually Gained 1. Eliminated three runtime dependencies Removing Rive's .riv player, Lottie's JSON player, and GSAP's timeline engine from our bundle saved roughly 180KB gzipped. Not life-changing for desktop, but noticeable on mobile. 2. Design files became production code The biggest win wasn't technical — it was process. Our designer builds components in ExodeUI with stat

Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, and configuration propagation across distributed services. The approach enables consistent measurement across products, reduces experiment conflicts, and improves reliability of data driven decision making at scale. By Leela Kumili

A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media.

Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.

I will explain how my mum inspired this 2026 Mother’s Day scrollytelling experiment — but also, how she inspired my approach to dev and life. A Scrollytelling Gift for Mum on Mother’s Day 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.