HBO’s 8-Episode Southern Gothic Thriller Is Still a Masterpiece Almost a Decade Later

Amy Adams leads a dark 8-part Southern Gothic masterpiece packed with murder, trauma, and one deeply unsettling small town.

‘Objet a’ Review: Ann Oren’s Wickedly Kinky Curiosity Eroticizes Everything From Mushrooms to Mushroom Cuts

Ann Oren follows up her debut feature ‘Piaffe’ with 'Objet a,' another strange, sensual meditation on obscure objects of ...
Ubuntu

JavaScript Timestamp Bugs: How UTC Mistakes Break Web Apps

A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...
GitHub

Cap'n Web: A JavaScript-native RPC system

Cap'n Web is a spiritual sibling to Cap'n Proto (and is created by the same author), but designed to play nice in the web stack. That means: Cap'n Web is more expressive than almost every other RPC ...
Fair Observer

The International Monetary Fund and China — A Comparison In Foreign Lending

IMF loans issued in the Americas and India to address foreign exchange crises ultimately weakened domestic economies and industries. China takes a different approach to lending by funding ...
Frontiers

CirclizePlus: using ggplot2 feature to write readable R code for circular visualization

In the R programming language, the de facto standard framework for drawing rectangular coordinates is ggplot2. The most important feature of ggplot2 is that it is object-oriented and uses the plus ...
GitHub

Immutable JS data structures which are backwards-compatible with normal Arrays and Objects.

Use them in for loops, pass them to functions expecting vanilla JavaScript data structures, etc. Whenever you deeply clone large nested objects, it should typically go much faster with Immutable data ...
Fair Observer

Outside the Box: AI and the Pros and Cons of Pronouns

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. In the ...
InfoWorld

State of JavaScript: Highlights of the JavaScript developer survey

The latest State of JavaScript survey provides an up-close look at the JavaScript language features, tools, libraries, and frameworks developers are using and how they're using them. Getting a ...
WeLiveSecurity

RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild

ESET researchers discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla products, exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. This is at least the second time that RomCom has been caught ...
Hacker

Building a Point Map in JavaScript

Your browser does not support the audio element. Ready to master the JS point mapping technique? Let's get started, and don't forget to join me in the bonus section ...
Hacker

The Art of Naming Conventions in JavaScript Development

Your browser does not support the audio element. It is no secret that developers have to ponder over numerous everyday tasks. Part of their thoughts is always ...