Ruby 4.0: A lot of restructuring under the hood, few new features

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for ...
The New Yorker

What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic

We are not accustomed to destruction looking, at first, like emptiness. The coronavirus pandemic is disorienting in part because it defies our normal cause-and-effect shortcuts to understanding the ...

The year in AI and culture

From the advent of AI actress Tilly Norwood to major music labels making deals with AI companies, 2025 has been a watershed year for AI and culture.

I took Harvard's free online coding classes to better catch AI's errors - and they're legit

Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever.