To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are in ...

In this article we will reimplement an exercise taken from the best-selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer" written by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas [1]. In the third chapter "The Basic Tools" the authors ...

You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a ...

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

AI can inadvertently introduce vulnerabilities by hallucinating libraries or repeating insecure patterns found in its ...

One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...