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Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” arrived in October 2025 as the interim release before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Interim versions often carry newer kernels, desktop components, compilers, and system libraries earlier than the long-term-support branch. Read more
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Starting Computer Engineering in 2025 means entering a field where powerful AI tools are already part of everyday technical work. Read more
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A programming assignment can look simple on paper. Write a program that does something. Test it. Submit it. Read more
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Apple introduced the iPhone 17 generation in September 2025, continuing the company’s shift toward processors and hardware designed around sustained on-device machine-learning workloads. Read more
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In 2025, computers can already generate code, explain errors, summarize documents, create images, and assist with many tasks that once required substantial manual work. It is reasonable for a student to ask: if AI can do more of the work, why study Computer Engineering? Read more
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I like clever algorithms, but I often enjoy simple algorithms more. Read more
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025 as a unified ChatGPT system combining fast responses with deeper reasoning. Instead of requiring users to choose manually between a general model and a reasoning model for every request, the system used routing logic to decide when more computation was useful. Read more
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OpenAI introduced ChatGPT agent in July 2025, combining browser interaction, code execution, research, and other tools into a system designed to complete multi-step tasks rather than only answer questions. Read more
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Some of my favorite project ideas begin with a very simple thought: what if I make this? Read more
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At WWDC 2025, Apple opened more of its on-device foundation-model technology to application developers through the Foundation Models framework. Read more
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Programming looks very logical from the outside. Teaching programming is much more emotional. A student can understand a difficult idea in five minutes and then spend half an hour looking for a missing symbol. Another student may struggle with the same topic for days and suddenly understand it after one small example. Read more
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Google I/O 2025 showed the company moving Gemini from a standalone chatbot into Search, Android, developer tools, and creative applications. Gemini 2.5 models and agent-oriented features were central to the announcements. Read more
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AI can write code very quickly now. It can produce a function, explain an error, or suggest a solution in seconds. Because of this, I sometimes hear a simple question: if AI can write the code, do students still need to learn data structures? Read more
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Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick in April 2025, moving the Llama family to mixture-of-experts designs. In an MoE model, only a subset of specialized parameter groups is activated for each token. Read more
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At GTC 2025, NVIDIA detailed Blackwell Ultra systems and its roadmap toward the next-generation Rubin architecture. The announcements emphasized rack-scale AI infrastructure rather than single accelerator cards. Read more
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OpenAI released Deep Research for ChatGPT in February 2025, pushing language models from answering one prompt toward carrying out longer research workflows across many sources. Read more
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Programming languages let people describe instructions precisely enough for computers to execute them. For decades, developers had to translate ideas into syntax mostly by hand. AI is changing that interface. Tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can generate code from natural-language descriptions, explain unfamiliar functions, suggest tests, translate between languages, and help debug errors. This does not make programming languages unnecessary. Read more
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John Woods once used the provocative phrase “clean code psychopath” to describe a certain kind of developer attitude. The phrase makes me smile because I have seen smaller versions of the behavior. A developer becomes so committed to an idea of clean code that the code stops serving the project. Names must follow one perfect rule. Functions must have one ideal size. Read more
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DeepSeek released R1 in January 2025 and drew global attention by pairing strong reasoning performance with openly available model weights and detailed technical discussion. Read more
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Many children enjoy playing games. Some eventually ask a more interesting question: How are games made? I think this can become a wonderful activity for a parent and child. The first project should be small. Read more