Year: 2026
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Is 2026 the Year of Desktop Linux? Unpacking the Latest Developments
For as long as I’ve been in tech, the phrase “The Year of Desktop Linux” has been bandied about more often than I care to count. Yet, as we move into 2026, something feels different. The Linux desktop landscape is seeing a burst of new energy: innovative distributions, maturing desktop environments, hardware vendors giving us…
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Claude Code 2.1.0 for Builders: Hooks, Skills, and Production-Ready Agent Workflows
I’ve spent the past year shipping with AI coding agents, and Claude Code 2.1.0 is the first release that truly treats “agent ops” as an engineering discipline, not a demo. Anthropic added lifecycle hooks, reusable skills, portable sessions, smarter tool permissions, and multilingual responses—features that cut the yak-shaving required to take agents from a chat…
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How I Use Cursor AI to Ship Faster: A Web Developer’s Playbook for 2026
Cursor is the first editor I’ve used that consistently feels like a teammate instead of a tool. Between rapid inline suggestions, an embedded chat that actually understands my codebase, and agents that can run tasks in the background, it helps me move from “idea” to “shipped” with fewer context switches. What’s new and why it…