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DSLs Make LLM Output Reliable

Give a model a domain-specific language) instead of a general-purpose one, and its output gets dramatically more dependable. Unmesh Joshi (Thoughtworks) made the argument on Martin Fowler's site in July 2026, and it is one of those ideas that is obvious in hindsight and almost nobody applies deliber

GitHub Copilot Vision

Copilot Vision became generally available on 1 July 2026. You can attach images and PDFs to a GitHub Copilot chat prompt, and Copilot reasons about them alongside your code. Available on every plan including Free, enabled by default, no admin action needed.

Cursor Agent Swarms

In July 2026 Cursor published the numbers behind its agent swarm work, and it is the most useful public document on agent swarm economics so far. Not because the idea is new, but because they ran the same task through several model combinations and published what each one cost.

JetBrains Context

JetBrains Context is a repository intelligence layer for coding agents, announced in July 2026 and in early access at no extra cost with a JetBrains AI subscription. It builds a semantic index of your repositories and lets agents query it by concept instead of by keyword, so they stop burning turns

FFASR Leaderboard

The Far-Field ASR Leaderboard is an open benchmark from Treble Technologies and Hugging Face, measuring speech recognition under realistic acoustic conditions rather than clean studio audio. It is the first open far-field ASR benchmark maintained as a continuously updated leaderboard.

OpenAI Open-Sourced Its Security Scanner

Last week OpenAI pushed a repository called Codex Security to GitHub without an announcement, blog post or tweet. The Hacker News thread about it reached 560 points before OpenAI said a word.

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and a Week That Reset the Open-Weight Frontier

July 2026 was a LOT. Two open-weight models at frontier scale were announced within three days of each other, a 27B model now runs on a phone, and there was plenty of tooling news.

Benefits of Obsidian

Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management app that focuses on local, plain-text files and interconnected ideas. Unlike many other tools, it prioritizes longevity, privacy, and linking your notes together.

Kanban Action Planner 1.8.0 - GTD contexts

Last time, version 1.7.0 of the Kanban Action Planner brought WBS mode, automation rules, and embedded boards. 1.8.0 is smaller and about one idea I've wanted in there for a while: contexts.

Kanban Action Planner 1.7.0 - WBS mode, automation rules, and embedded boards

Two weeks ago, version 1.1.0 of the Kanban Action Planner shipped timeline mode. Versions 1.2.0 through 1.7.0 add a WBS mode, automation rules, embedded boards, a real estimates system, and a performance pass that touched almost every interaction.

Riddle (reMarkable)

Riddle turns a reMarkable Paper Pro into Tom Riddle's diary. You write with the pen, pause for a few seconds, and the answer appears on the page as flowing handwriting. No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat window. Built by Maxime Rivest, MIT licensed.

Obsidian Keyboard Shortcuts

Obsidian has great support for keyboard shortcuts. Most commands can be invoked using shortcuts, and most of those can be customized.