Prepare to be dazzled by what this small team of academics managed to achieve. Fast.ai is an organization that aspires to make machine learning accessible to everyone. Their most crowning achievement? Well, not much. Just outperforming the AI giant of Google!

You want it darker? Eclipse Photon ships the best support for the dark theme so far! Lars Vogel explains all the new dark theme improvements in the platform as well as how plug-in developers can make sure their contributions work for the dark theme.

The future is bright for AI. Whether data science can change the world or not, that remains to be seen. One thing is sure though: developers should collaborate more efficiently with data scientists & engineers. We talked to David Wyatt, Vice President EMEA at Databricks about the challenges when approaching AI initiatives, the role of Spark in this field and the next step for data engineering and data science teams.

GitHub projects live and die based on how good their documentation is. If a developer can’t read the repo, then they are going to find an alternative. Thanks to VuePress, it’s easier than ever to automatically update your documentation.

Last month, the JDK team made a call for discussion in order to investigate a number of options for JDK source code management. But is it time to retire Mercurial in favor of Git? We talked to Thomas Stüfe, senior developer at SAP about all this and more.

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Last year, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Katerina Skroumpelou, front-end developer at Upstream.

You know what Electron developers are missing? A coding sandbox where developers can play around and experiment with problems. Introducing Electron Fiddle, a coding laboratory designed to support your SCIENCE! needs.

Java 10 was the first release in Oracle’s new six-month cycle and now we’re just one month away from Java 11 so it’s not far-fetched to say that Java’s new chapter is exciting. In this 5-part interview series with this year’s Java influencers, we shed some light on the new six-month cadence, the dangers of release fatigue, what’s next for this old favorite and more.

Nrwl announced the release of Angular Console — the UI for the Angular CLI and it’s designed to make your time working with Angular CLI significantly simpler. It does everything the CLI can do and more! Let’s have a closer look.

Julia is on a roll! In honor of last week’s version 1.0 release, we’re taking a look at some of the best IDEs for this high performance language. It turns out, Vim is surprisingly well represented on this list!

Vue CLI is the standard build toolchain for Vue.js development. The latest release, 3.0 has everything you have hoped for! Vue CLI 3.0 has tons of new features that aim to realize one main goal: less configuring, more coding. Let’s have a closer look at everything the new release has to offer.

RedMonk’s biannual report on the state of the internet’s most popular programming languages is here! We take a look at the list to see what’s what: JavaScript’s continued dominance, a jump for Scala and Julia, and a drop for TypeScript.

Confused about what’s going on with Jakarta EE? This interview series is meant to help you navigate through all the changes and understand where it’s headed, as well as how Jakarta EE plans to become the new home of cloud-native Java. Our ninth guest is Richard Monson-Haefel, OpenEJB co-founder, Java EE Author and member of Tomitribe. Let’s dive deeper into the Jakarta EE universe!

Annotations are everywhere in web or enterprise development. But how should they actually be defined? Adrian D. Finlay goes over the basics of Java annotations, their restrictions, retention policies, and more in this informative introduction to this coding mainstay.