The first app is called Face Down. And it works exactly how it sounds. You start a timer, then place your phone face down on the table. As long as it stays there, the timer runs. The moment you pick ...

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Are your parents addicted to their phone? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores how technology is affecting an older generation of adults. Instead of a phone-based childhood, Warzel ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

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Back in 2022, Charter wrote about Ideaflow, a book by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn of Stanford’s d.school that argued that you find good ideas by generating an enormous amount of them and then ...

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Pomodoro Task Timer This is a simple, console-based Pomodoro timer and task manager built with Python. It is designed to help you stay focused on your work by breaking it down into timed intervals, ...

Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a common refrain throughout the industrialized world. And every fall, in places where the clocks fall back an hour, that wish reaches fruition. Yet many people ...

The real price of a premium credit card isn’t the three-digit annual fee. For some, it’s the hours spent in spreadsheets trying to get their money’s worth. Eric and Charlene May have an arsenal of 14 ...

Plus a simple tool that makes it better for laptops. Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because ...