Canvas has a filter API that often goes unnoticed because it has been inherited recently from SVG. In this extract from a chapter in my new book on JavaScript Graphics we look at how it works.

This article  is more or less everything that the working programmer should know about operators and their associated expressions and, of course, the use of parentheses.

Further evidence that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was the Victorian forerunner of the modern computer comes from the latest progress report on Plan 28, the ambitious project to create a working version of the Analytical Engine, first described in 1837, by the 2030s.

It's the time of year when Open Source projects can sign up for the summer internship programs that bring together those wanting to spend the summer months coding with the projects that can provide monitoring and interesting tasks to work on.

 Autonomous delivery vehicles passed an important milestone in January 2020. Starship, one of the first delivery bots to appear on our sidewalks, made its 1 millionth delivery on the campus of Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

We take a look at five Learning Labs to get you started with network automation from Cisco Devnet. Python and the REST API are among the topics covered and all the content is free  

Retirement notices have been served for two of the Firefox Extensions that bore the "By Firefox" label, Voice Fill and Firefox Voice. Their entries in Mozilla Add-ons now displays warnings that they will uninstall themselves on February 19, 2021.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have announced that Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is now an official web standard.

It's a well known fact that if you adopt good typing practices you can increase your productivity - either as a technical writer or as a programmer - but is a keyboard that delivers electric shocks for poor typing style really the answer?

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has partnered with the Oak National Academy to turn the content of England’s National Computing Curriculum into more than 300 curriculum-mapped videos and made them available for free.

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Superset has reached top level project status, having been in the Apache Incubator range since 2017. Superset is an open-source data exploration and visualization application that was originally developed by Airbnb.

Apple App Store had gross sales of around $64 billion last year, according to a report from CNBC. The report estimates that the amount is up from an estimated $50 billion in 2019 and $48.5 billion in 2018.