The Best Articles in Programming

Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) is often considered to be an intimidating topic - a common mis...

Article explains what is CORS, popular among web developers CORS, what are the common problems and how to fix them.

If you’re not a professional programmer but you’ve ever used a computer, this article is for you – seriously. You will learn what code is, what software is, how apps get written, and what different programming languages do and why they matter. Plus you’ll get details about other technical issues. Along the way, Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Paul Ford explains the culture and some of the psychology of programming. This delightfully animated article is essential for anyone not in the programming field who uses computers. getAbstract recommends it to everyone interested in learning more about programming, its culture and its principles.

Rust has been Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. However, the roughly 97%…

A practical introduction on how to program Evolutionary Algorithms in Python to solve optimization tasks.

Find out how to develop effective tooling in an efficient manner including build vs buy and success metrics for developer satisfaction & productivity

This blog will help you learn about performing web scraping with JavaScript and Selenium.

Node.js runs JavaScript code in a single thread, which means your code can do one task at a time and can’t use multiple cores. To remedy this, Node.js introd…

Recently, I needed to combine two Array objects in JavaScript. I wanted an easy-to-read approach that ran fast. This led me to comparing a…

Web Components enable us to develop entirely independently of frontend frameworks.

Articles by Stephen Wolfram covering artificial intelligence, computational science and computational thinking, data science, education, future and historical perspectives, sciences, software design,…

Focus time is a positive predictor of flow.

How I am able to use github codespaces to develop and push updates to my website, from my iPad.

First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who am I to tell you how to

«Instead, I prefer to capture expected-case and worst-case»

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing.

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

by Alexander Miller When I was a kid, my dad gave me a piece of paper with a grid printed on it. It consisted of larger squares than standard graph paper, about an inch in size. It was basically a…

«When I asked my dad, in the course of writing this essay, where he first encountered a coordinate grid, he told me it was the game Battleship.»

GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions, and adopt OpenAI's GPT-4.

I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when…

A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on…

Every week now, it seems, events on the ground make a fresh mockery of those who confidently assert what AI will never be able to do, or won’t do for centuries if ever, or is incoherent even …

The “bullshit” problem turns up in code, too

How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.