Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase.

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

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 ...

Research by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote them by hand during the same time. In terms of immediate results, laptop users ...

We’ve all been there: one moment, your mind overflows with the perfect ideas for your blog, but as soon as you open that blank document, it’s like you’ve hit a creative dam. Ideas that once flowed ...

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...

President Donald Trump has spent years posting the most unhinged content to social media, from all-caps screeds in the immediate wake of his 2020 presidential election defeat to AI videos promoting ...

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server ...