#delphi-interactive

#delphi-interactive

The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension adds first-class language support for projects built with Swift Package Manager, enabling seamless cross-platform development on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Voice interaction with Claude Code significantly enhances the user experience by allowing for faster input. Speaking is often 2-3 times quicker than typing, which can streamline the process of giving commands.

New overloads on TarFile.CreateFromDirectory accept a TarEntryFormat parameter, giving direct control over the archive format. Previously, CreateFromDirectory produced Pax archives. The new overloads support all four tar formats—Pax, Ustar, GNU, and V7—for compatibility with specific tools and environments.

The improved cross-device resume support, which has been in testing since August, is part of the latest Release Preview update to Windows 11 that started rolling out yesterday. It includes the ability to resume Spotify playback on a PC from a phone, as well as any work in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You'll also be able to continue an Edge browsing session from a phone on your PC.

Logo is a programming language designed in the 60s. Its most famous feature is turtle graphics: the programmer controls the "turtle" (cursor) with instructions like forward, left, right, repeat and the turtle leaves a 'trace' on the screen. Today we'll build a compact, single-file logo interpreter in about 100 lines of pure JavaScript. To keep the code short, we'll only implement the four instructions above, plus color_cycle (not part of the standard Logo) that cycles through 36 HSV hues.

Claude is a very powerful AI tool that works especially well for coding. It's possible to code entire applications or services in Claude. That's why Claude quickly becomes a very important tool in a product designer's toolkit. It allows us to move quickly and build not only fast interactive prototypes, but also code UI components ready for implementation. To make this guide more specific, I will use Claude to code a sign-up web form.

The software industry is collectively hallucinating a familiar fantasy. We visited versions of it in the 2000s with offshoring and again in the 2010s with microservices. Each time, the dream was identical: a silver bullet for developer productivity, a lever managers can pull to make delivery faster, cheaper, and better. Today, that lever is generative AI, and the pitch is seductively simple: If shipping is bottlenecked by writing code, and large language models can write code instantly, then using an LLM means velocity should explode.

One big change for 2026 is a move away from the Mono runtime for Android .NET applications to CoreCLR. The modern .NET platform evolved from the open source Mono project, and even though it now has its own runtime in CoreCLR, it has used the older runtime as part of its WebAssembly (Wasm) and Android implementations.

The headline runtime feature in this preview is Runtime Async, described as a major change to how asynchronous methods work in .NET. According to the release notes, since C# 5 introduced async/await, the compiler has been solely responsible for rewriting async methods into state machine structs that track progress across suspension points. With Runtime Async, the runtime itself now understands async methods as a first-class concept and takes over responsibility for suspending and resuming methods.

The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.