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🤖 Darkwood Watch - 2026-08-01 on August 1, 2026
Key Points Symfony Reprise: A new integration layer for modern package managers. LLM Analysis: Comparison of LLM API costs between different providers. Game Development: Demo of Ad Iterum, an innovative dungeon crawler. For more details, see our premium c...
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Latest release
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🚀 Darkwood v8.1.3 released on July 30, 2026
Darkwood v8.1.3 has just been released. ⬆️ to symfony v8.1.3 🏷️ Full Changelog v8.1.2...v8.1.3
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Latest creator article
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💫 Bluesky Creator - @joel.wurtz.dev: A Halfhearted Assumption xD on August 1, 2026
Joel Wurtz shares a light-hearted take on a coding project he attempted. While he admits that it's not a serious endeavor, he emphasizes how enjoyable the process was. This encapsulates the spirit of experimentation in tech, encouraging others to try new id...
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Articles
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💪 Here are my LLM talents on June 2, 2026
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📍 A day in Rotterdam on June 2, 2026
After spending my first day at TwitchCon Rotterdam 2026, I decided to dedicate my Sunday to simply exploring the city. The program was ultimately quite simple: Rotterdam Central stroll through the city center Markthal Cube Houses boat trip zoo then return...
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👾 TwitchCon Rotterdam 2026: What Twitch is announcing for creators on June 1, 2026
TwitchCon Europe 2026 in Rotterdam had a special energy: the third edition in the city, but also the last year announced in Rotterdam before a return to Berlin in 2027. From the outset, Mary Kish reminded everyone of TwitchCon's core identity: diverse com...
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⬆️ What's new in Symfony 8.1 on May 29, 2026
Symfony 8.1 continues to progressively expand the framework's scope far beyond traditional web development. This new version brings numerous improvements to: developer experience, asynchronous architectures, CLI tools, serialization, JSON processing, Mess...
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🎤 Sunday Labs #4: What the Parisian builder ecosystem is really looking for on May 26, 2026
The fourth edition of Sunday Labs, organized by Build Society at Hexa (eFounders), in Paris, took place on May 24th. The format was simple: to bring together builders, founders, freelancers, tech profiles and creators for open discussions, project presentat...
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🧩 An AI agent today is a highly motivated intern with 400 tabs open. on May 23, 2026
He responds quickly. He has confidence in himself. He knows how to use Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Linear, the terminal, and sometimes even Docker. And yet, as soon as he is given a slightly longer task, everything starts to go haywire. Not because the mo...
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⬆️ Flowvox update: Symfony becomes a real-time voice agent platform on May 17, 2026
In February 2026, I published a first experimental prototype around speech transcription in PHP with Whisper.cpp. https://blog.darkwood.com/article/im-building-a-dictation-engine-in-php-flow-symfony-whisper-cpp The objective was simple: record your voice,...
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⚙️ NoLife Models - Towards a local infrastructure for AI runtimes with Symfony on May 13, 2026
For years, using an AI model meant calling a remote API. The workflow was relatively simple: send a prompt wait for a response display text. But in recent months, a new ecosystem has been emerging around local models. An ecosystem composed of: model cat...
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💡 Devoxx France 2026 - L'Ère de l'Agentique au Cœur de Paris on May 13, 2026
Bienvenue au Palais des Congrès pour une édition de Devoxx France 2026 qui marque un tournant historique dans notre industrie. Si les années précédentes étaient celles de l'expérimentation et de la fascination pour les LLM, 2026 est indéniablement celle de...
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💫 I forced 4 AIs to recreate Mario from scratch using Symfony AI and Godot on May 8, 2026
Creating a video game with artificial intelligence has become almost commonplace. Today, all you need to do is open Cursor, Claude Code or ChatGPT and type: “Create me a Mario.” And a few minutes later, something appears on the screen. But behind this ap...