Learn about what’s coming next in Ruby — This week, Ruby’s development team released the first preview build of their long-awaited major update to version 3.0! Among the countless cool changes and additions — including some fantastic general performance boosts and a powerful new concurrency/parallel processing efficiency model — a new built-in language has emerged for static type…

This week, the famous V8 web engine developed by Google released their newest development branch, version 8.6. There are a ton of new features in this release, and I’m going to talk about on those related to WebAssembly. Chrome Origins When Google released their Chrome browser back in 2008, it was an…

Emacs is a giant and ancient text editor/IDE/operating system/religion that has an extremely dedicated user base and has been under continuous development for 44 years. Since modularity and customizability are the main draw of the Emacs environment, you can imagine how many add-ons have been created and implemented over the…

Using Kubernetes to manage and coordinate multi-container or distributed applications is becoming more and more common and necessary as certain software architectures become standardized as “best practices.” …

There’s a new weird feature that’s been added experimentally to the latest version of ruby: The “Right-ward Assignment Operator” Normally in a ruby program you’s assign values to variables with the traditional: variable_name = variable_value But this new experimental feature, true to Ruby form, gives you yet another possible way…

Data Driven Documents in JavaScript, or D3.js for short, is a really popular library for adding cool data visualizations to your web pages using canvas or SVG. It is an extremely powerful tool that can do pretty much anything you might imagine in terms of graphing or visualizing data. …

If you’ve been doing any web development in the past few years, chances are you’ve heard a lot about TypeScript — Microsoft’s massively popular open-source programming language that adds static typing, convenient code editor integrations, and other features designed to streamline the development experience while remaining backwards-compatible by compiling into…

Few people familiar with Microsoft products in the 1990s and early 2000s would ever expect the makers of Windows and Internet Explorer to embrace the open source community. …

When you turn your phone sideways, the screen flips to accommodate the “landscape” perspective. This is super convenient when taking photos, or recording and watching videos. It’s a feature we’ve taken for granted on our smartphones for over a decade. …