Ahead of the October 4 launch of Google's new Googlebook laptops, Android Authority managed to install and run the platform's first-party Text editor app on an Android phone and tablet. The app supports extensive syntax highlighting for languages including Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Java, C++, Rust and Go, plus a find-and-replace tool, and adapts its layout to make better use of larger tablet screens.
Sublime Text, the cross-platform code editor, has upgraded its embedded Python runtime to version 3.14, keeping the plugin API current with the latest language release. The editor remains a lightweight alternative to full IDEs, offering a single license for use across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
A threat actor breached the website of Admin Menu Editor Pro maintainer Janis Elsts and pushed a malicious version 2.35 update that installed a web shell and created a hidden admin account on customer sites. Even after Elsts released a clean version 2.36, the attacker retained access and compromised that release too, affecting an estimated 230 customers and at least 1,500 sites.
A developer released txt, a lightweight, keyboard-driven text editor built to run directly in the terminal without configuration or a modal input system. It uses tree-sitter for syntax highlighting across many languages, supports code folding, and includes a fuzzy symbol picker for navigating functions and classes within a file.
Nintendo has released firmware update 23.0.0 for the Switch 2, finally enabling variable refresh rate support when the console is docked and running in TV mode, a feature promised before launch but missing at release. The update also adds a handheld boost mode toggle in quick settings, nostalgic music options in the Mii editor, and full system transfer between two Switch 2 consoles.
Roame, a Y Combinator-backed search engine that helps travelers find flight and hotel award seats using points and miles, is hiring a Content Editor. The role focuses on building a repeatable, partly automated video production system rather than manual editing, aimed at quickly publishing time-sensitive content like mistake fares and transfer bonuses.
Google has updated Sheets to support its entire Google Fonts web library, extending font options to chart titles, axis labels, data labels, and legends. Users can access these fonts via a new 'More fonts' option in the chart editor sidebar. The change also improves how custom fonts are preserved when importing or exporting files between Sheets and Excel.
A developer built an experimental one-way projectional viewer that lets programmers toggle implementation detail out of view in source code without editing it back, using a Rebol phone-number parsing grammar as the test case. Rather than removing plumbing code like value-capturing and print statements, the tool simply elides them from the reading view so the underlying grammar structure stands out.
A developer found that CodePen's updated editor sends everything typed into its code fields to codepen.dev within one to two seconds, even without saving. Using a unique test marker in an HTML file, they confirmed CodePen triggered a build with save disabled and the marker still appeared verbatim in the generated preview page served from a codepen.dev subdomain.
Frustrated with the state of modern software, a developer decided to build their own text editor from scratch instead of relying on Sublime Text or VS Code's Monaco-based engine. Their first prototype rendered everything on an HTML canvas element, handling basic cursor movement, typing, and line highlighting, but lacked features like text selection, undo history, and scrolling. Realizing canvas rendering was inherently inaccessible, they pivoted to using a contenteditable div with plaintext-only mode as a more practical foundation.
The developer behind the ImHex hex editor wrote a tutorial demonstrating how to reverse-engineer an undocumented binary file format, using the 2012 game FEZ's save file as the example. The walkthrough shows how to move from raw hex bytes to a complete structure definition written in ImHex's Pattern Language, a feature available on the free, open-source, cross-platform tool.
A retro gaming FAQ author named rs1n manually wrote a lengthy Super Metroid guide in the late 1990s so that every line's right margin ended flush against the text width, without using any justification software. He achieved this simply by carefully choosing words and phrasing as he wrote, avoiding the awkward double-spacing or hyphenation typically seen in monospace text justification.
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