Netflix codes make it easy to find buried genres and micro-categories. Here's how to use them - and my favorite ones.

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

This is a cybersecurity-focused web tool for encoding and decoding URLs, query strings, or paths using percent-encoding (also known as URL encoding). It helps in safely handling special characters in ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...

Firefox doesn't print anything, but it also refuses to execute the script. The spec seems to allow this without any special guard. We should spec that it's disallowed, and capture that behavior in ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

So, you’re wondering about URL length and SEO, huh? It’s one of those things that seems small, but people talk about it a lot. Does making your web addresses shorter actually help you rank better?

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is my third and, sadly, last ...

Costco offers some pretty great deals — there’s no denying that. But did you know the price you see probably tells you way more about the product than you realized? You can generally find three types ...