Plus, one unpleasant surprise — During its product event on Tuesday, Apple announced new updates for the Apple Watch line, a new “Apple One” bundle of services, and plenty more — but what got me most excited as a developer is the new iPad Air. The new tablet comes with an updated bezel design that…

The new email service from Basecamp founders David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried is pricey — but for good reasons — What words come to mind when you think of email? The first two words I think of are “overwhelming” and “unending.” I’ve tried many different email clients, like Apple Mail, Gmail, and Spark, but I have always been disappointed by how little control I felt I had over my mailbox…

Yes, Apple finally fixed the keyboard, but there’s much more to love — On Wednesday morning, Apple announced the long-anticipated new 16” MacBook Pro. Apple sent me the new MacBook last week so that I can share my experience with the developer community and I’ve used it as my main device over the past week. The first thing I noticed was the new…

Every developer has that moment of realization when you look at your code and barely understand what it’s suppose to do or how it got to be so many lines long. This doesn’t mean you have to completely start from scratch, but it’s important to be open to refactoring parts…

Written by Erica Engle and Kaya Thomas Ever needed to squint to see some text? How about feeling unsure where a button is because it’s indistinguishable from the background color? Accessible technology means that the product we provide works for everyone, regardless of what their abilities may be. …

I graduate college in 6 months. Every graduation before this one has led to more school. Like most college seniors I feel both excited and terrified about graduating. …

Earlier today Wall Street Journal posted a piece titled “Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem”. Facebook has come to the conclusion that their diversity problem is due to there being too few underrepresented people who have the necessary tech skills to work for them. …

Last winter I took one of the hardest required courses for my computer science major. I went into the course thinking that, because I wasn’t strong in advanced math, I wouldn’t succeed in a theoretical computer science course. Programming is my strong suit, but this course involved zero programming and…

A love of reading and tinkering — and unease about how young black women are portrayed in books — leads to a passion for coding. I’ve always loved books. No matter how old I was, what I was going through, how I felt in any moment a book was always…