How The Globe creates the giant Canada Day crossword and other puzzles, according to our games team

Readers asked how the editors write crosswords, focusing on Canadian-made puzzles and if games are good for brain health ...
Jweekly.com

Jewish crossword constructors across the Bay Area find clues to community

Once a year, crossword obsessives from the West Coast gather at a Berkeley synagogue to compete, compare notes and celebrate a shared devotion to the game of black and white grids. The setting feels ...
GitHub

JavaScript Static initialization blocks.md

Static initialization blocks in JavaScript offer a unique way to execute code when a class is defined, rather than when instances are created. These blocks provide more flexibility than static ...
The Courier-Journal

Could Massie be a write-in during November election? What state law says

After incumbent U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his primary election for the 4th Congressional District seat to Shelbyville farmer and former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky's May 19 primary election, ...
Penn Live

Governor write-in campaign for Mastriano ‘full speed ahead’ despite ambassador nomination

State Sen. Doug Mastriano might have been nominated to be an ambassador, but that’s not stopping the write-in effort for him in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary. “It throws up some question ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
The Business Journals

St. Louis-based TW Constructors rebrands as projected revenue nears $900M

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Growth doesn’t define a company, execution does. For TW ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
WGAL

Write-in campaign launched for Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania governor primary

Supporters of Doug Mastriano are organizing a write-in campaign for the Pennsylvania governor's primary despite the GOP and President Trump's endorsements of Stacy Garrity. STATE SENATOR DOUG ...
InfoWorld

WinterTC: Write once, run anywhere (for real this time)

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability. The WinterCG community group was recently ...
Nature

Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...