What separates a successful coding project from one that spirals into chaos? It’s not just technical skill or a great idea—it’s planning. Imagine diving into a project with no clear direction, only to ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Things are frankly ridiculous right now with AI building—in the best possible way. Vibe coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Cursor are democratizing software development. And that means that you can ...

What if you could manage a sprawling codebase with millions of lines of code as easily as organizing a to-do list? For developers tackling large-scale projects, the challenge often lies in maintaining ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Like all AI models based on the Transformer architecture, the large language models (LLMs) that underpin today’s coding ...

Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive. A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...