Google announced a press release on its soon-to-be-released ChatGPT competitor, Bard. The announcement pre-empted Microsoft’s announcement of integrating a next-gen GPT model into Bing. It’s honestly impressive for both companies: how quickly Microsoft could release something that works and how quickly Google could adapt its strategy. There are

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In NextJS v13, the framework's compiler got 17x faster. Why? An extensible Rust-based platform for JavaScript compilation and bundling called swc. The compiler went v1 in 2019, and Vercel hired the lead developer in 2021. For a minute, Svelte/SvelteKit was emerging as a viable alternative to NextJS/Vercel. Now,

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Docker Extensions is a new beta feature in Docker Desktop. It allows you to run third-party tools in Docker Desktop, complete with a simple React-based GUI. For example, you might run the Tailscale extension, which sets up a Tailscale node inside Docker for your tailnet. Or you might run one of the many GUI dashboards from the Marketplace. Of course, there's nothing new about Docker Extensions in terms of functionality – nothing is stopping you from passing through an API token to a Docker cont

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