The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...

A clean script is an incomplete object: it might contain all the lines, but it’s only a fragment of the information an actor needs to give a detailed and accomplished performance. That’s where script ...

The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where legend has it that David slew Goliath -- ...

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

Apple’s Notes app in iPadOS 18 includes a new feature called Smart Script that allows users to handwrite text and then have it smoothed and straightened in real time. It promises to make text scrawled ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. I was excited about Google Home's script editor feature: as my smart home collection has ballooned, the idea of more ...