Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

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"Vibe coding" appeared in early 2025 to describe the simple idea of programming with AI tools. So I tested a range of them — ...

When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that ...

With technology advancing at an ever-accelerating rate, the gadgets and innovations you come across daily can often feel like they've jumped straight out of a science fiction movie. For instance, you ...

Chances are you learned to code because you had a few ideas of things you wanted to accomplish, so it's time to pull up that list of development dreams and see what might be feasible. While you can ...

What separates a successful coding project from one that spirals into chaos? It’s not just technical skill or a great idea—it’s planning. Imagine diving into a project with no clear direction, only to ...

When GPT-5 came out, I didn’t just want to glance at changelogs or watch demo videos. I wanted to see what it could actually do for me, hands-on. Could it really build functional, fun, and usable ...

[Mark] had seen a few examples of algorithmic music generation that takes some simple code and produces complex-sounding results. Apparently it’s possible to pipe the output of code like this directly ...