The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed by a tilde (.~) at the end of a sentence to indicate snark or a sarcastic ...

Vim is the classic, keyboard-driven text editor that has stood the test of time since 1991. Based on the original Unix editor vi, Vim lets developers code with precision and speed—no mouse required.

We’re using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have taken on new ...

Words are never neutral. They can soothe or sting, enlighten or mislead, unite or divide. In politics, where perception often ...

Jake Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) rocked up to New York like a Poundland Rocky, chin out, chest puffed, thinking he’s Mayweather with a TikTok account. Opposite him, ...

Do you ever hesitate before sending an email, weighing whether you should sign off your thanks with an exclamation point ...

What used to cost hundreds and require all kinds of know-how is now shockingly affordable and accessible. The mechanical ...

The keyboard that gave us the standardised layout on both sides of the Atlantic, with its quintessential 100% form factor and classic buckling spring mechanical keys (in most instances), is about to ...

Have you tried to type over a line in Microsoft Word, but the text does not stay on the line but keeps on moving and creating space? Are you wondering how to get the text on the line without the line ...

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The future of the em dash — and the elements of style more broadly — is in our hands. Let us be a beacon for writers ...