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Technology Stack Overflow is dead, and its toxic community helped kill it Ellsworth Toohey

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fonts The despised Comic Sans reincarnates as a redesigned programming font Mark Frauenfelder

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programming Artist/engineer built virtual simulation of an entire car engine to generate realistic vrooooom audio David Pescovitz

programming The renowned programmer who created PHP "hates programming" and said he's "not a real programmer." Annie Rauwerda

Games Game about version control is a real Git Rob Beschizza

programming Rivers Cuomo of Weezer takes online Harvard coding courses, writes band software Clive Thompson

video games N64 modder re-imagines classic Super Mario Séamus Bellamy

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Kids AI finds solutions its creators didn't anticipate Andrea James