A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

QR codes. For many of us, they’re synonymous with a) the pandemic, b) the ongoing lack of actual menus in bars and restaurants, and c) the fact that the world is now just that little bit more tiresome ...
Wired

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history. John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when ...
PopSugar

Latine Celebs Are Flipping the Script on Code-Switching, and We're All Following Suit

I had just sent a voice note to my friend when a curious feeling came over me. "Let me listen back to it," I thought to myself. As I did, an even stranger feeling came over me, a lack of recognition ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Prompt Engineering? See VS Code Team's System Prompts for Copilot Chat, Now Open Source

"Now that the code is open source, what does it mean for you? Explore the codebase and learn how agent mode is implemented, what context is sent to LLMs, and how we engineer our prompts. Everything, ...
The Courier-Journal

When can I see the total solar eclipse in Kentucky? Look it up by your ZIP code

What Kentucky area codes will see the solar eclipse? According to the National Phone Number Registry, the state has five area codes. These are 270, 364, 502, 606 and 859. However, only 270 area codes ...