#softwareprogramming — Public Fediverse posts

I can’t remember where I found it but it’s in my queue: Apives, a directory of APIs. From the front page: “Apives curates APIs with clear pricing, stability, access types, and real endpoint examples. This helps developers avoid guesswork caused by incomplete docs or outdated GitHub repositories.”

The Register: IBM’s AI coding ‘partner’ Bob hits general availability . “IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant – sorry partner – which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.”

ZDNet: I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner – here’s what Cursor and Replit taught me. “Startups such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable Labs, Harness, Windsurf, Augment Code, All Hands AI, and Microsoft, with its Visual Studio with GitHub Co-pilot, all offer programs that can drastically reduce the hand-coding humans need to do. And so I wondered: Could a newbie like me, with limited programming […]

ZDNet: MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation – now you can download it for free. “For its day, MS-BASIC 1.1 was quite sophisticated. It included improved garbage collection. (When you only had 4K of RAM, you needed every byte your program could get its hands on.) It also supported FOR loop variables, which were a big improvement over BASIC’s infamous GOTO command.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/05/zdnet-ms-basic-1-1-introduced-programming-to-a-generation-now-you-can-download-it-for-free/