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Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (News)
May 19, 2025 · 7 min · 7.9 MB
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Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript’s type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web.
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- 0:00What up, MS Build nerds?
- 0:52WSL is now open source
- 1:52Hyper-Typing
- 2:33I'm going back to using my brain
- 3:30Sponsor: Retool
- 4:36Coding without a laptop
- 5:53The HTML of the agentic web
- 7:00That's the news for now