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Our programming article includes tutorials for getting started with popular programming languages; tricks and handy scripts; development news; tips for choosing a framework; and coding how-tos.

An open source developer's guide to systems programming

Applications run on systems and understanding how to properly program systems is a critical skill for developers.

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A practical guide to light and dark mode in Jekyll

By ensuring that the markup stays in Sass/CSS, reusing styles, and overriding some Bootstrap 5 defaults, it's possible to achieve light and dark modes.

The original C programming guide by two of the language authors, circa 1978

How the C programming language has grown

Here's my interview with Brian Kernighan, co-author (with Dennis Ritchie) of The C Programming Language book, to discuss the C programming language and its 50-year history.

5 open source tools for developing on the cloud

Here are a few IDEs that can improve your programming experience while using multiple cloud service providers.

Get started with reactive programming with Kotlin on Quarkus

Learn how Quarkus enables developers to keep using Kotlin programming APIs for reactive Java applications.

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Creating and initializing maps in Groovy vs Java

Java and Groovy maps are nicely general, permitting keys and values to be any classes that extend the Object class.

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