Loraine Lawson

Kentucky

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Three AI-Assisted Development Skills You Can Start Using Today

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Things are changing fast in AI, as if developers didn’t have enough to keep up with. The New Stack recently spoke with Antje Barth, the principal developer advocate for generative AI (GenAI) at Amazon Web Services, about how developers can prepare for an increasingly AI-driven enterprise. Barth shared how AI is changing development and how software engineers can adjust to the new realities of AI development. 1.
GitHub's New Security Campaigns Fix Security Debt With AI

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

GitHub introduced a new AI-based tool for eliminating security debt on Tuesday for its GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security customers. Now, organizations can run security campaigns, which help identify and remediate existing security problems from developers’ GitHub workflows.
A Peek at What’s Next for Vue

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Vue is used by 21% of the top 10,000 sites, according to BuiltWith, which (among other things) tracks more than 2,500 e-commerce technologies across over 26 million e-commerce websites. It’s one of the statistics in the State of Vue.js 2025 report, which queried 1,428 Vue users about the framework. 21% means that twice as many of the biggest sites use React vs. Vue. Among all active sites, React is used 15 times as often as Vue.
Researchers Find Next.js Middleware Vulnerability

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Rachid Allam, a vulnerability researcher, recently teamed up with Yasser Allam, known by the pseudonym inzo_, and picked Next.js as a target for their security vulnerability research. And sure enough, they found a critical flaw in the frontend framework. “It didn’t take long before we uncovered a great discovery in the middleware,” Rachid wrote.
JavaScript's Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

Python has Django. PHP has Laravel. Ruby has Ruby on Rails. But where is the full stack framework for JavaScript? Arguably many popular frontend frameworks are now full stack — Next.js, Nuxt.js, Remix, Svelte and others. But in 2020, there were few — if any — truly full stack JavaScript frameworks. And that’s when twin brothers and software engineers Matija Šošić and Martin Šošić decided to create one.
Brex’s Web Dev Revamp Makes Code LLM Friendly, by Design

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

When the engineering team at Brex decided to revamp its frontend, the plan was to rebuild to better serve their customers. Along the way, the project had an unusual side effect: it made the website friendlier to large language models (LLMs). “We originally decided to rebuild Brex’s frontend stack to better serve our customers — from startups to Fortune 500s — for the years to come,” Brex senior software engineer Marcelo Terreiro Prado, who oversees AI products, told The New Stack via email.
OpenAI API Now Supports Building Voice Agents

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

It’s now possible to offer AI-powered voice agents in applications via an OpenAI API, the company announced this week. The API now makes it possible to offer customizable voice agents via new speech-to-text and text-to-speech audio models in the API, the company said. OpenAI is also introducing a new text-to-speech model with better “steerability,” which is the ability to guide or control an AI system’s behavior and output according to human intentions or specific objectives.
A Hugging Face Project Is Uncovering DeepSeek-R1’s Secrets

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

DeepSeek-R1’s release was a huge wake-up call for the AI world, according to Jeff Boudier, who leads product and growth at Hugging Face. “The wake-up call was that, in order to get the best possible AI, you don’t need to rely on closed models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.,” Boudier said.
Pagoda: A Web Development Starter Kit for Go Programmers

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson

In 2020, Mike Stefanello fell in love with Go.“It’s the first time I ever said that I loved a programming language or even a technology or tool, but it was that kind of reaction — I just really, really fell in love with it,” the software engineer said. “I knew I wanted to work with it.”Stefanello also did a lot of web development in the form of personal projects and at that time, most web development was PHP-based.
Garuda Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Kimberley Mok

I’m not going to lie, I’m a sucker for a pretty desktop, and within the realm of Linux, there are puh-lenty of them. On top of that, even a bland Linux desktop can be customized until it could very likely become prom queen. And then there are other desktop distributions that go above and beyond to set themselves apart to become something totally “other.” That’s exactly what Garuda Linux has done for a long time, but the most recent release (Broadwing) is truly something special.