Mid weight Ubuntu server updates – a bit of progress against the Linux kernel.
Some few upgrades onto the Linux kernel its probably expected to be a new kernel released shortly so will definitely check it out.
Also WordPress 7 forthcoming with a few CLI tools and some AI sort of stuff.
Also of note doing the rounds is the x402 payment gateway protocol that allows collected payment via the hyperlink, useful in some use cases.
There has been a lot of software engineering going down on Ubuntu and a lot of useful software is now available on the Ubuntu , however don’t use the latest version try and keep a step behind because a lot of stuff doesn’t recognise the Ubuntu version number so there’s a few issues come through like that.
However development proceeds.
There’s a lot going on the hardware side of things at the moment, there’s all sorts of competitive pressures and considerable fragmentation between platforms, applications, architectures and compilers sort there are a few gaps coming through in terms of application performance.
Its one of them, although time progress moving forward there’s all sorts of going in terms of complexity and platforms management, in itself a terrible non productive pane in the hyper plane.
On the CAD/CAM side of things, general prices have gone up, and minimum order values have skyrocketed also so apart from intel one api and intel tiber cloud being cheap and powerful theres not much more positive news coming out of this space immediately however where just at that time of year were we leave Christmas and new year behind.
Bitcoin and crypto is all the way down and the crypto fleece continues . It seems there’s just too much going on.
Before i forget there was some good research coming through as regards software engineering using MCP – model context protocol and C++ on Ubuntu , at most basic fundamental level there is much to be said about the set up, it would be interesting to see how this evolves but simple C++ ‘server’, or continuous delivery type applications are improving in simplicity but also capability, there is perhaps scope for a c++ type crypto/blockchain/Zero knowledge proof type of system perhaps might emerge.
Presently, its a funny time in the industry, but the hype seems to be a good bit down. Well see how things progress throughout the year.
Global structural re investments are still to find their way and the corresponding results filter through to the wider economy.
The forthcoming Intel chips are something to look forward to as they combine features and bring them all together using the intel one api , compiler, which will bring forward software development, by presenting a unified underlying infrastructure, however the DDR 5 ram hostage situation has evolved the price to idiotic prices really.
AI research – there’s a lot of enthusiast/amateur AI stuff coming down the pipeline, so its good that there is a lot of interest but even that seems to be fizzling away, well , at least low key.
Perhaps it has been overly provisioned for a buzzing economy but the wider economy is in a slump. Should things pick up again then perhaps there will be an upside however, due to this gold/silver thing, and this supply chain issues with key microchips, for example RAM, and everything else that is going in, in means there’s a sort of network effect of the need for massive capital because contract licencing manufactures are unable to offer productions for anything less that previous contract manufacturing was more willing to do smaller more affordable production runs, but now the minimum spend is very very very high so the capital required to compete at volume and scale is mostly unreachable for the many.