Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code. I've spent the past several months reading my colleagues' ...

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

New Package Firewall CLI, VS Code extension, and AI coding assistant plugins enforce package trust before malicious or policy-violating dependencies are installed. Modern software supply chain attacks ...

Open-source software tools continue to surge in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

GitHub gives Dependabot version updates a three-day cooldown to curb short-lived poisoned packages, while security fixes ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has rapidly become one of the most popular code editors among developers worldwide. Its flexibility, ease of use, and robust features make it a go-to choice for everything ...

Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed to let software developers run large AI models on their desks instead of paying for cloud computing — a ...

So, you want to get into Python coding online, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and luckily, there are tons of tools out there to help you. You don’t even ...

Anthropic’s powerful AI assistant, Claude, now offers deep integration into VS Code. This move of Anthropic brings Claude’s advanced reasoning and code generation capabilities directly into the most ...

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