7 Weirdly Specific Libraries and Collections From Around the World
Eleven-year-old Beulah “Blue” Warren spends every waking moment surrounded by boys: her three brothers, her father, her best friend, even the family dog, but that’s never...
Riot Recommendation: 42 of Your Favorite Books About Pirates
Born into abject poverty in the British Empire, our narrator aspires to a better life as a ship’s surgeon—until a tyrannical captain provokes a mutiny, forcing...
Soothe Yourself With A Digital Bookish Jigsaw Puzzle: Critical Linking, May 11, 2020
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by “Need a fun mental break? We’ve created six...
6 YouTube Channels to Help Master Your LEGO Design Skills
LEGO sets are great fun, and there’s nothing wrong with following the instructions to the brick. But if you’re ready to start exploring your own designs,...
Why Did Dial-Up Modems Make So Much Noise?
Screeeech . . . hisss . . . squaawk. These are familiar sounds to anyone who’s ever used dial-up internet or called BBSes. It seemed especially...
Gradle 6.4 arrives with support for building and testing Java modules
The Gradle team has announced the release of version 6.4. It comes with several new features, bug fixes, and potential breaking changes. There are currently no...
GitHub report: Developers remain productive during quarantine
On May 6, 2020 GitHub published a special Octoverse report. It examines how developers are working during the COVID-19 pandemic and patterns that have been seen...
The Millions Top Ten: April 2020
We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about...
Flutter 1.17 and Dart 2.8: New packagement tool & improvements
The newest release of the Dart SDK, version 2.8 was announced on May 6, 2020. It, alongside Flutter 1.17 are both now available. Dart and Flutter...
Weekly Review: TIOBE Index, AIOps, collaboration tips & more
C passes Java and becomes number 1 programming language Another month, another update to the TIOBE Index—last week, we saw what languages were the most popular...
