Thanks to a number of changes to the tax code under the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump administration officials are projecting Americans will enjoy the largest tax refund ever in 2026.

For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...

With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.” I ...

Coding can be exciting. Imagine, what if developers could make changes to thousands of lines of code written by someone else? What if new and star developers could easily read that code? What if they ...

Prism is a slick new JavaScript library that adds a very attractive syntax highlighter to any website with a mere 1.5KB (minified & gzipped) of extra bandwidth. Even if you're happy with Pygments or ...

A couple of years ago I did a Q&A with Q&A with Christopher Seiwald who is chief technology officer for Perforce Software. Seiwald made a comment that he thought code should be more than just ...