What if I told you that one man’s frustration with an elevator breakdown led to the creation of the fastest-growing and most-beloved programming languages today? Seventeen years ago, Graydon Hoare’s ordinary evening turned pivotal when an out-of-order elevator at his apartment building forced him to trek up 21 stories. A Mozilla software engineer, Hoare’s frustration wasn’t just with the climb, but with the fact that the tools of his trade couldn’t even make an elevator that works without cras

Although Class Central lists online courses in 87 languages, courses made in English outnumber all of the others by more than six to one. English is therefore a useful language to know, even though some courses have subtitles in a range of languages. Earlier this year, we updated our list of courses to help improve your writing skills. These courses all assume some fluency in the language. But what if you do not know any English, or your English is very poor? If you do not have convenient acce

The first time you see Tailwind CSS, you might wonder whether someone accidentally pasted their stylesheet into the HTML. A single button can have a dozen classes just to control its spacing, colors, rounded corners, and hover effects. Are we really supposed to write all that? Each class does a small, specific job. Once you recognize them, you can style an element right where you’re building it, without jumping between files or thinking up another class name. The HTML gets busier, but making c