Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

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If you can't make it in time, add more trucksI used to sell software that calculated the shortest delivery routes.One of my ...

When I loaded the product names from the CSV, the quantity column contained "Black". Even though I just separated them by commas, the columns shifted halfway through. In such cases, checking if there ...

Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

If you are experiencing high CPU and Memory usage issues with Notepad in Windows 11, here is what you can do to fix them. Why is Notepad showing high CPU and Memory usage? If Notepad is showing high ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

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Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...