In the Mac stupid and/or cool thread I posted some AppleScript to fix an issue with the Safari web browser. Immediate comment: AppleScript sucks. No controversy there. I mentioned ARexx on the Amiga, ...

There was a time when the idea of Magic: The Gathering crossing over with other franchises felt impossible. Magic just didn’t do that. When The Walking Dead showed up as a mechanically unique Secret ...

So, you want to learn Python, huh? It’s a pretty popular language these days, used for all sorts of things like making websites, crunching data, and even AI. The good news is, you don’t need to spend ...

“You are tasked with writing a sophisticated, technically grounded article for HackerNoon that argues for recursive prompt engineering—where LLMs generate their own optimized prompts before executing ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

This is the fourth time I rebuilt this library from scratch to find the sweet spot between ease of use (beautiful is better than ugly!), testability (simple is better than complex!) and potential for ...

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It's a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake, we ask them ...

See here for an explanation of why there is no v13-v16 release. Kubernetes supports three minor releases at a time. "Support" means we expect users to be running that version in production, though we ...

MicroPython has become one of the most popular ways of programming microcontrollers, and the just-released MicroPython v1.24 adds support for the widely-used Raspberry Pi RP2350 and Espresif ESP32-C6 ...