Notable Changes

assert:

If the validation function passed to assert.throws() or assert.rejects()
returns a value other than true, an assertion error will be thrown instead
of the original error t...

This is what our night sky is going to look like in 3.9 billion years: Wow! So what’s going on here? Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31

Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are...

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Note: The FTC hosted a conference call for media.

TechCrunch appears to have published a prewritten Snap earnings story before the numbers actually went public. Post has been taken down but was up for a few minutes https://t.co/ZlxmDSvHo5

A seminal paper from 2000 investigated the impact of blind auditions in orchestras, and found that they increased the proportion of women in symphony orchestras. I investigate the study, and find that there is no good evidence presented.

Today the @nytimes chose to eliminate my role, stating that there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security. I strongly believe in what I do (and what we did), and to say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. (1/3)

New research finds that high-tech inventors are significantly more productive when they work in large clusters—but there are drawbacks.

German photographer Tom Hegen (previously), who specializes in aerial photography, recently traveled to the Netherlands to document the country’s LED greenhouses. The greenhouses were developed as a response to the small country’s growing need for food both…

Max Winter beat me to the punch: I was prepared to write something on the exhaustion of present-day verbal comedy and the absence of anything in the way of physical comedy to take its place, when his post “Slapstick Last: Why a Modern-Day Harold Lloyd Is…