Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

The CEO of Databricks — world’s seventh most-valued private company worth $134 billion — shares his views on the middle ground in the AI era and why the potential in India, both as a talent pool and ...

The history of technology is written not just in laboratories and corporate campuses, but in the moments when the people who built ...

I’ve also made a couple overview pages that collect posts on specific topics: Package Management and Git. If you want to see everything I’ve written about either of those, those are good places to ...

March 2026 TIOBE Index stays largely steady, with SQL and R swapping spots, as Paul Jansen explains why the index still ...

Malware is evolving to evade sandboxes by pretending to be a real human behind the keyboard. The Picus Red Report 2026 shows 80% of top attacker techniques now focus on evasion and persistence, ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

TIOBE Index for March 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent Python keeps the top spot as its rating dips again, C climbs further in second, and the bottom stays ...

This is not about replacing Verilog. It’s about evolving the hardware development stack so engineers can operate at the level of intent, not just implementation.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...