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 ...
USA Today

What is code-switching? Why Black Americans say they can't be themselves at work

As one of the few Black women in the corporate offices where she worked, Regina Lawless took pains to blend in. She donned conservative blazers and low-wedge heels and tucked her hair in a wig instead ...
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, ...