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🤖 Darkwood Insights - 2026-06-01 on June 1, 2026
Highlights Gotta Fit in the Backpack A father's perspective on living with one car in Chicago. Hotel EDC Enriches EDC Las Vegas’ 30th Anniversary Expanding experiences at Virgin Hotels for a memorable festival. San Diego County Fair Expands EDM Lineup...
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🚀 Darkwood 8.0.13 released on June 1, 2026
Darkwood 8.0.13 has just been released. Read the Darkwood upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Darkwood. https://github.com/darkwood-com/darkwood/blob/8.0/UPGRADE-8.0.md
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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...
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⚡️ Screening of the film "My Extraordinary Life" - what living systems teach us about automation on May 6, 2026
On May 5th, at Pixelis in Paris, we screened Mon Extraordinaire, the film that follows Guillaume Lalu on his 160km solo trek during the Marathon des Sables Ultra. No codes, no agents, no LLM. And yet, for two hours, everyone in the theater had the same feel...
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✨ Transformative design: no longer designing uses, but metamorphoses on May 1, 2026
On April 30th, at Le Laptop in Paris, an event took place that broke away from the beaten path of classic Product Design: “Transformative Design: Don't just create uses, transform users”, presented by David Jeanne and organized by Jordan Thévenot. In a room...