Planet Ingres

 Yet another provider jumps on the hardened image bandwagon. But since it's Docker, the main player in the container space, this is very important.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/240-devops/18579-docker-releases-hardened-images-for-free-what-does-it-do-differently.html

 HuggingFace just made the process of fine-tuning open source LLMs much easier through the use of Skills.

Similarly to Claude's Skills, HuggingFace Skills take care of the boilerplate required to fine tune LLMs. That boilerplate consists of validating your dataset, auto-selecting the best GPU hardware for the job, as well as submitting the job for processing, monitoring the training progress, and finally publishing the tuned model to the HuggingFace Hub.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18568-huggingface-skills-fine-tune-llms.html

 PostGIS Day is a chance to learn how others are making use of PostGIS and exchange ideas to make the best out of it.

PostGIS of course is the extension that adds to PostgreSQL support for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18564-what-happened-at-postgis-day-2025-.html

 And it shows it by launching a new step by step tutorial on building AI powered application with Python.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/18557-microsoft-loves-python-ai.html

 Agentic AI and MPC are coming on strong in the database market. After the likes of Postgres and Oracle, now it's MongoDB's turn to incorporate MCP.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18540-mongodb-now-does-mcp.html

 NODES is the biggest graph community gathering dedicated to applications, data intelligence, knowledge graphs, and AI. Let's find out what happened this year.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18536-the-gist-of-the-nodes-2025-dev-conference.html

 Claude Scientific Skills give Claude super powers, not just on coding, but about any science. We try them out to see what's on offer.

But first of all what are Claude Skills. If you're familiar with CustomGPTs then Skills is something similar. They both enable the LLM to access specialized agents. In the Skills case, they are shaped as plugins which comprise of a mix of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load dynamically when trying to perform a task. 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18534-turn-claude-into-your-personal-research-assistant.html

 In cooperation with the Nebius AI cloud platform, JetBrains has launched a set of ten free courses for developers that demonstrate how to incorporate AI in their workflow to become 10X productive.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18528-jetbrains-work-with-ai-effectively.html

 A new Advent calendar had joined those for Java, Kotlin and Rust. We now have  Advent of AI, a series of AI engineering challenges from Goose, that is already underway.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/18518-the-goose-advent-of-ai-has-commenced.html

 Connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connections and more, all from inside VSCode. Just announced, the extension simplifies talking to and managing PostgreSQL databases from the ease of the most popular IDE.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18512-postgresql-extension-for-visual-studio-code.html