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.

I installed over 100 Claude Code plugins so you don't have to. Here's the signal from the noise.

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Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

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 ...

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

The hard-to-quantify rise of package downloads for Python spell out the story of AI diffusion, if you know where to look.

Visual Studio Code 1.130 is the latest weekly update from Microsoft. The company focused heavily on agents in this update.

It's Dev Containers.

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This vibe coding cheat sheet explains how plain-language prompts can build apps fast, plus the planning, testing, and security checks needed. Software development is undergoing a seismic shift as vibe ...

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer ...