When Ryan Dahl released Node.js in 2009, the goal was simple yet powerful: run JavaScript outside the browser, for server-side tasks. Because of V8 (the JavaScript engine from Chrome) and nonblocking I/O via libuv, Node.js allowed you to write asynchronous, high-throughput networked applications in JavaScript. Over time the…
A few years ago, “AI in coding” felt like science fiction. The idea that an editor might guess your next line or even write a method for you was relegated to demos, research labs, or sci-fi blog posts. But gradually, we’ve seen that become reality: tools like GitHub…
How often do you ask an AI assistant a simple factual question — say, “Who discovered penicillin?” — and it answers confidently, yet wrongly? Or you upload a photo of your living room and the AI describes an armchair that doesn’t exist. These are not bugs. They are…
Programming used to be a world reserved for the technically trained. You’d learn syntax, data structures, and algorithms. You’d type line after line of code, debug errors, and slowly build up complex systems. That was the norm. Over the past decade, though, tools started helping us more and…
“No translation is perfect — and sometimes, the difference between ‘a book’ and ‘books’ can change everything.” That is the warning echoing through classrooms, boardrooms, and translation desks alike as artificial intelligence surges into the world of language. In the past decade, AI translation has moved from clumsy…
When Elizabeth Reid sat down for the Corner Office Conversation podcast, she was careful to insist on one point: “The story of the blue link is far from over.” It was both reassurance and a challenge. Reid, Google’s head of search, was addressing a growing anxiety among publishers,…
On a routine morning, Anna, a small-business blogger in Norway, sipped her coffee and refreshed her site analytics. She noticed a sudden spike in browser warnings—users were seeing “insecure content” errors on her otherwise secure blog. The culprit: a decades-old practice in her site’s code, a simple URL…
Over the last few years, the TypeScript team has made incremental improvements, tightened defaults, and pushed toward a future where the compiler is faster, leaner, and more opinionated. Many changes in TS 5.x were aimed at reducing surprises, improving performance, and aligning with modern JavaScript conventions. Now, with…
For years, researchers have hinted that the invisible waves zipping between your phone and router carry more than just data. They also carry subtle clues about what is happening in a room. Now a team in Japan says it can turn those clues into actual pictures that look…
When you type pip install requests or npm install lodash, behind the scenes lies a massive, invisible system of software registries, dependency resolvers, content distribution, and infrastructure. Today, the keepers of those systems are sounding the alarm. In a rare coordinated move, foundations and organizations behind PyPI, Maven…
When Naoharu Sasaki stepped into a boardroom at a conservative Japanese financial firm last spring and declared, “We’re going to treat AI like a team member, not a toy,” some executives gasped. In many traditional companies, the very mention of “AI in code” triggers alarm bells: What if…
When running Linux in embedded or high-performance environments, you may encounter a rare but disruptive issue: all processes freeze for about one second. This guide explains the root cause, how to detect it, and what configuration changes can prevent it. Symptoms Start by ruling out the usual suspects:…
