AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

Explore zero-one integer programming, a key method in logical problem-solving, using binary choices for optimal decisions in finance, production, and more.

Installation view, "Language of Abstraction," Chinese American Museum of Chicago Credit: Chinese American Museum of Chicago Other than their backgrounds and their eventual emigration to Chicago, ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Murals by Victoria Martinez will grace a wall and a window at the Poetry Foundation. Credit: Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation “I was always drawn to books; I feel like my life is like a sketchbook or ...

This is a proposal to introduce a minimal amount of abstraction over names in Dart declarations. It is a kind of static meta-programming, but at a very modest level. Consider the following example: In ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.” Jack Whitten, “9.11 ...