Nikos Vaggalis
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Nikos Vaggalis
@nikosvg.bsky.social
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Colab Is Coming For Your Favorite IDE-"#Colab integration has arrived for both #VSCode and @jetbrains.com #PyCharm.
What does that now make possible?"

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@googlecolab.bsky.social @vscode.dev @pycharm.dev
Colab Is Coming For Your Favorite IDE
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
LangChain Academy's LangSmith Essentials Course-"what is Langsmith? It is easy to get confused between #LangChain,#LangGraph and #LangSmith"
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@langchain.bsky.social @langchain4j.dev
LangChain Academy's LangSmith Essentials Course
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
🧵 Thread: CVEs in container images don’t “end” just because you cleaned up an image once. If you run containers in prod, save this for later.
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
What Happened At The #OpenSSL Conference 2025-"The premier event for #cryptography and secure communications professionals.In 2025, it ran between October 7-9 in Prague. We check the highlights"
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@sansisc.bsky.social #cryptography #security #privacy
What Happened At The OpenSSL Conference 2025
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
Toad is a fascinating concept: a Pythonic terminal interface for AI agents. It’s the kind of tool that makes me think about the infrastructure needed for true agentic workflows. The move towards universal, programmable interfaces is where the real orchestration begins. #AI #DevTools
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January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
“Atlas Production Ready This Year” — i-programmer.info

#RoboticsNews #Robot #Robotics
January 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
March 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
🔐 A Guide to Java Application Security

Discover proven approaches to securing enterprise #Java applications, from code to containers:

bell-sw.com/blog/a-guide...
Java Application Security Best Practices: Code to Container
Explore proven Java app security best practices, inluding safer deserialization, input validation, strong crypto, quarterly JDK patches, hardened containers, and SBOMs.
bell-sw.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Toad-Pythonic Universal Terminal Interface for AI Agents-"
Wouldn't it be great to have an interface that could work with any AI agent? #Toad is #Python 's answer to a unified front-end for the many #AI #coding agents out there"
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@willmcgugan.bsky.social @pythonhub.dev
Toad-Pythonic Universal Terminal Interface for AI Agents
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Agentic AI Foundation Announced-"Recognizing the importance of AI Agents,under the umbrella of the @linuxfoundationeu.bsky.social "
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@opensource.block.xyz
#agenticai #openai
Agentic AI Foundation Announced
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
#Google Releases #FunctionGemma Model-"Technically, FunctionGemma is a specialized version of the Gemma 3 270M model which is dedicated to function calling. But first of all, what is #Gemma?"
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#llm #gpt #ai #rag
Google Releases FunctionGemma Model
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Get To Grips With #Transformers And #LLMs-"This isn't just a course, it's the complete curriculum of
Stanford's #CME295 Transformers and #LargeLanguageModels from Autumn 2025"
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#llm #AI #rag #gpt
Get To Grips With Transformers And LLMs
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
👾New on CyberJAR: JDBC vs JPA vs jOOQ

JDBC, ORM, JPA, Hibernate, Blaze Persistence, jOOQ - let's put all these concepts on their place in #Java db access stack and discover when to use which using real-world examples!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTh...
JDBC vs ORM vs jOOQ: Choose the Right Java Database Tool
YouTube video by CyberJAR
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January 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM
pg-aiguide-Agentic Coding For PostgreSql-"pg-aiguide adds AI-optimized PostgreSQL expertise to coding assistants. What does that mean?"
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#postgresql
pg-aiguide-Agentic Coding For PostgreSql
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Nordic API Platform Summit 2025-"An event for #API practitioners from around the world covering
everything API-related. We're checking the highlights"
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@nordicapis.com #PlatformSummit25 #APIs #NordicAPIs
Nordic API Platform Summit 2025
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Supabase's Vector Buckets-" @supabase.com has released Vector Buckets, specialized storage containers optimized for vector data. Is This The End Of Specialized Vector Stores? "
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#supabase #vector #postgresql #postgres
@postgresworld.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
👾New on CyberJAR: Hibernate, Ditch or Double Down?

What Hibernate does under the hood, in which scenarios it shines, how you can fall into a trap, and when SQL-first approach is better?
And can you have the best of two worlds in one #Java app?
Watch and find out ->

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12v...
Hibernate: Ditch or Double Down? When ORM Isn't Enough
YouTube video by CyberJAR
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January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
HuggingFace Skills Fine Tune LLMs-"Similarly to Claude's Skills, HuggingFace Skills take care of the boilerplate required to fine tune LLMs"
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#HuggingFace #LLM #GPT
January 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
I updated my list of reasoning models with solid tech reports for 2025!
2025-01-22 - DeepSeek R1 - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
2025-01-22 - Kimi 1.5 - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12599
2025-03-31 - Open-Reasoner-Zero - arxiv.org/abs/2503.24290
2025-04-10 - Seed-Thinking 1.5 - arxiv.org/abs/2504.13914
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning…
arxiv.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Microsoft Loves Python + AI
"And it shows it by launching a new step by step tutorial on building AI powered applications with Python"
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#python #microsoft #ai #llm
@microsoftedu.bsky.social @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @pythonhub.dev
Microsoft Loves Python + AI
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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December 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
MongoDB Now Does MCP-"#AgenticAI and #MPC are coming on strong in the #database market. After the likes of #Postgres and #Oracle, now it's @mongodb.bsky.social turn to incorporate MCP"
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MongoDB Now Does MCP
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM