273: Does the Language Really Matter?

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https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1972721288029548924 – Chris McCord announces the web shell command for LLM web browsing

https://github.com/chrismccord/web – Web - shell command for simple LLM web browsing that converts web pages to markdown, executes js, and interacts with pages

https://hexdocs.pm/zoi/Zoi.html – Zoi - a new schema validation library for Elixir inspired by the popular JavaScript library Zod

https://github.com/phcurado/zoi – Zoi GitHub repository

https://zod.dev/ – Zod - the JavaScript library that inspired Zoi

https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lzwvkdlsw22c – Announcement of AshDiagram by Jonatan Männchen

https://hexdocs.pm/ash_diagram/AshDiagram.html – AshDiagram - library for generating beautiful diagrams to visualize AshFramework applications including Entity Relationship, Class, C4 Architecture, and Policy diagrams

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_diagram – AshDiagram GitHub repository with examples of generated diagrams

https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lzypq74brc25 – EEF Security Update announcement

https://security.erlef.org/assets/aegis/updates/2025-q3.pdf – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's Ægis Initiative Q3 2025 security update document

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/beam-worm – EEF blog post about BEAM security initiatives

https://cyber-resilience-act.com/ – Information about the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

https://cyber-resilience-act.com/cra/chapter-2/article-24/ – CRA Article 24 covering requirements for open-source software stewards

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 – Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200 – Claude Code 2.0 update with new native VS Code extension

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/ – PostgreSQL 18.0 release announcement

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18 – Crunchy Data blog post about PostgreSQL 18 features

https://x.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1972198023200440720 – PostgreSQL 18 now supports Index Skip Scans and async I/O when scanning pages from disk

https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lzq2hq7uec2r – Oban team shares what PostgreSQL 18 means for the Oban project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAf9jRMIR0 – Southern California Linux Expo talk diving into PostgreSQL 18 details

https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025 – IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2025 list

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/28/1823244/will-ai-mean-bring-an-end-to-top-programming-language-rankings – Discussion about whether AI means the end for top programming language rankings