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• This hellish Helvetica font is perfect for Halloween

  Zack Roif and Matthew Woodward have unleashed a hellish version of the timeless Helvetica font: use it to destroy your friends' ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Hackers are using a bug in PHP7 to remotely hijack web servers

  Things are going to get worse before they get better.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The Iranian developer deadlock: Stuck between censorship and US sanctions

  On August 2, Iranian programmer Saber Mesgari received an email from Amazon Web Services stating that the company had to stop providing its cloud services because he lives in a country that is on the US sanctions list. Amazon shut down his account immediately after. AWS and other ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Bel is a new LISP-style programming language from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham

  Bel proves LISP still has value in 2019

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google's free coding tool for beginners lands on desktop

  Google is officially bringing its free coding tool called Grasshopper to desktop web, and introduce two new classes specifically ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• An architect explains why the most important character in Control is its world

  This article was originally published by Super Jump Magazine, an independent publication all about celebrating great video games and their creators through carefully-crafted, in-depth featured produced by a diverse team of games journalists, designers, and enthusiasts. Architecture ...

  • Super Jump Magazine

• The messy iOS 13 rollout shows Apple needs a revised release schedule

  Apple is advancing the releases of iPadOS and iOS 13.1 from September 30 to September 24, nearly a week before their planned ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• With EMUI 10, Huawei courts developers

  EMUI 10 comes with new SDKs (and a new IDE, eventually)

  • Matthew Hughes

• Microsoft's new font for devs is very aesthetically pleasing (and free)

  Microsoft has crafted a new font specifically built with developers in mind. It's called Cascadia Code, and you can already ...

  • Mix

• GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot security vulnerabilities

  Software hosting service GitHub has acquired Semmle, a code analysis platform that helps developers discover security vulnerabilities ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• YugaByte's distributed database gets GraphQL integration, Jepsen testing in a major update

  YugaByte, the open-source distributed database provider, today officially announced the availability of YugaByte DB 2.0, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Free software icon Richard Stallman has some moronic thoughts about pedophilia

  Is there still room for people like Richard Stallman?

  • Matthew Hughes