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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - Netlify released The State of Web Development 2023 report.
- Google plans to roll out Tracking Protection next month.
- Jim Zemin argued against the push for closed foundation models at the AI.dev conference.
Thank you. Sudarshan
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| 1 | | Netlify unveiled its fourth annual survey report, The State of Web Development 2023 report, previously known as the Jamstack Community Survey, along with predictions for next year. Netlify surveyed nearly 7,000 respondents, of whom 78% claimed to be developers. More: - Three-fourths of respondents said they utilized composable architectures on sites in the last 12 months due to benefits such as higher productivity (60%), faster time-to-market (52%), increase in site performance (49%), and greater ability to customize and personalize customer experiences (44%).
- Meanwhile, developers not adopting composable architectures pointed to a lack of a clear path to begin (41%), not enough resources (29%), and a lack of the right technical talent (21%) as barriers.
- Astro experienced the most significant growth in both usage and satisfaction. However, Next.js continues to be the top framework in terms of usage and satisfaction.
- Among CSS frameworks, Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS were the most used, with 81% of respondents wanting to use Tailwind more compared to Bootstrap's 38%.
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| 2 | | Google announced it will roll out Tracking Protection on Jan. 4. Tracking Protection is a new feature that can limit cross-site tracking by restricting website access to third-party cookies by default. More: - The feature, deemed a significant milestone in Google's Privacy Sandbox initiative, will initially be available to 1% of Chrome users worldwide globally.
- Google believes the rollout to a small subset of users will enable developers to assess their readiness for a web ecosystem without third-party cookies.
- If Chrome detects a website is not functioning properly without third-party cookies, it will offer a prompt to re-enable them for that particular site temporarily.
- Google's ultimate objective is to phase out third-party cookies for all Chrome users by the second half of next year, contingent on addressing concerns raised by the UK's CMA.
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| 3 | | During his keynote address at the AI.dev conference, Jim Zemin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, argued that the call for closed foundation models arises from vague concerns over open-source LLMs becoming dangerous in the wrong hands. The conference hosted by The Linux Foundation was held on Dec. 12 and 13 in San Jose. More: - Zemlin pointed to a discernible trend shift toward more closed foundation models in the AI space.
- According to a survey by the Linux Foundation, 41% of respondents preferred open-source AI technologies, while only 9% preferred proprietary solutions.
- Further, a significant majority (95%) supported neutrality as a primary aspect of generative AI governance.
- The speech comes in the backdrop of the EU recently announcing its first-ever AI regulations, with open-source LLMs exempted after considerable pushback from the community.
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| 4 | | Managed Postgres platform provider Tembo Data Systems Inc. raised a $7M seed round. The investment round was led by Venrock Management, with participation from Fireroad Holdings, CincyTech, and Wireframe Management. More: - Tembo aims to enhance support for managed Postgres offerings and address the limited assistance provided by most managed service providers.
- It supports over 200 Postgres extensions, including data warehousing, recommendation model training, and route optimization, among others.
- Trunk, Tembo's open-source package manager, collects metadata on extensions and provides users with a more informed viewpoint about the extension ecosystem.
- The Cincinnati-based startup intends to use the funds to make its platform accessible and available for a variety of use cases.
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - The preview of Windows AI Studio, announced during the Ignite event, is now available. The Visual Studio extension requires Ubuntu 18.04 or greater and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run. The Windows AI Studio powered by Azure ML and Hugging Face aims to simplify generative AI app development by allowing developers to download public models locally, fine-tune, test, and use them in their Windows applications.
- Vercel announced the availability of v0, its AI tool for creating front-end components, for everyone. v0 creates UI components' React code from simple prompts in plain English.
- JetBrains introduced Kandy, a new Kotlin plotting library that provides a DSL for creating charts. Kandy supports all popular chart types, including line, scatter, bar, histogram, and boxplot charts.
- Apple released the beta versions on iOS & iPadOS 17.3, macOS 14.3, tvOS 17.3, and watchOS 10.3.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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