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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. No announcement, no blog post, no tweet. Hacker News found it anyway and sent it to 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 announced within three days of each other, a 27B model that runs on a phone, and a pile of tooling news that will affect your daily work more than either of them.

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. I haven't slowed down since. 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. Here's what's new.

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, around 1.6k stars on GitHub.

Obsidian Keyboard Shortcuts

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

Concepts Website

A curated, cross-linked collection of concepts — designed to learn from first principles. Built from concept cards and published as a website.