During his 25 years working as a software engineer, Andy Weir wrote two novels that never found an audience. He also wrote a ...

All Harvard College freshmen enrolled in expository writing courses were required to complete a three-part training module on ...

As a sophomore in high school, Jacob Shaul started Mode to Code to teach programming and web development to other kids.

He’s written with Dolly Parton, Viola Davis and Bill Clinton. This time, James Patterson chose his wife, Susan.

What makes Codex useful for building websites is that it can install software packages, run a local preview server, track ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Autocomplete suggestions are perhaps one of the most annoying “useful” tools for writing: increasingly integrated into anything online that requires you to input text, autocomplete harnesses ...

JavaScript is the foundation of the modern web. From simple button clicks to complex web applications, almost everything interactive you see online runs on JavaScript. Whether you are a beginner ...

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability. The WinterCG community group was recently ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

As time goes by, it seems like there is less and less of a need to write things down by hand. Letters are no longer necessary when you can easily text or email someone. Things you need to remember can ...