This is my 20th year teaching memoir writing at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. I’m always in awe of the stories people yearn to tell. It’s this yearning, or burning need to write, that finally ...

QR codes, short for Quick-Response codes, are pretty neat. You scan the code using your device's camera, which picks up embedded information, often to share details or direct you to a website. The ...

Helene Rosenthal is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Slate. I recently wrote my obituary and it cleared up a lot of things. I actually don’t want to climb ...

Meta. Nike. Intuit. UPS. It seems every day a new company announces layoffs, often citing AI as the cause. AI is already reducing US monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year, ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

Crafting your obituary forces you to reflect on your priorities, values and legacy. Death Cafes are popping up around the world. In these volunteer-run gatherings, people convene - in libraries, ...

Death Cafes are popping up around the world. In these volunteer-run gatherings, people convene — in libraries, places of worship and independent living communities — for tea and snacks to discuss ...

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new “Create My Widget” feature for Android that allows users to vibe-code their own custom widgets. The feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing us a a ...