In my former life, I was a web application developer. I stopped doing that full-time in 2007 when I transitioned to teaching full-time. Obviously, in the intervening 16 (!) years, things have changed.

Anyone who has ever tried to build a website for the first time knows that awful feeling when confronted with lines of HTML, CSS, and PHP, languages as foreign as any known to man. Well, never fear.

Cascade, developed in the Times R&D Lab by Jer Thorp and UCLA prof Mark Hansen, is a 3-D way of visualizing how stories spread across Twitter. A Video Series Teaching Web Design To Anyone Who’s Afraid ...