Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.

How recent improvements may shake up perceptions of Apple’s long-derided browser
Although not widely remarked upon, 2022 was a transformative year for Apple’s popular web browser.

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Bayshore, the family office at the center of Sergey Brin’s ongoing divorce, is a sprawling $100 billion entity with interests as disparate as Parkinson’s research, disaster relief, and superyacht management. Its real central interest, though, has been Sergey’s…

Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking…

Python's formatted strings, or "f-strings", came relatively late to the
language, but have become a popular feature. F-strings allow a compact
representation for the common task of interpolating program data into
strings, often in order to output them in…

Stavanger will drown, Denmark’s land mass will shrink and Stockholm won’t be accessible by boat. New calculations of sea level changes and land uplift show major changes in Scandinavia's landscape over the next thousands of years.

Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth have a tendency to look back ...

Fewer U.S. kindergartners are getting standard childhood vaccines, fueling concerns about anti-vaccine sentiments stirred up by Covid-19.

A reflection of my time in trucking and opportunites for future trucking founders

16 reasons to look to your feet.

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

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Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects

What started as an experiment has turned into a habit I hope will inspire others.