Java
Don't Pick a Programming Language Because It's the 'Most Profitable'
Here's why that's a bullshit metric.
The Rise and Fall of the Java Applet: Creative Coding’s Awkward Little Square
It's easy technology to hate, but the Applet predicted an age of web applications.
2015's Most Popular Programming Language Was Good Old Java
After a brief reign, C is unseated. Meanwhile, Objective-C plummets.
Oracle Agrees to FTC Settlement Over Java Security Lapses
"What's worse than stale coffee? Stale Java."
Know Your Language: The Slow Flickering Star-Death of Java (Part One)
How and why Java rules object-oriented programming, and why it's the beginning of the once-crucial language's long, long winding down.
Know Your Language: C Rules Everything Around Me (Part One)
A brief history of the programming language to end all programming languages.
Know Your Language: Meet Processing, the Lingua Franca of Creative Coding
What started as a programming learning tool developed at MIT now pretty much owns code-based digital art.
Sumatran Coffee Is Even More Delicious When Served By a Shaman
My Sumatran neighbor didn't advertise her services as a shaman, but would occasionally become possessed in between our sessions of drinking the amazing local coffee together.
Jackfruit and Spicy Meat Are a Match Made in Java
If you ever have ever craved a heavy, sweet fruit paired with a spicy tough meat, Nasi Gudeg is the dish for you. Hailing from from Yogakarta, a city in the center of Java, it's the comfort dish that Indonesians adore.
Have the Good Times Come to an End at Indonesia’s ‘Sex Mountain’?
For centuries, pilgrims have traveled to a hill in Central Java to have sex with strangers in hopes of receiving blessings, but the government has shut the ritual down.
The Kids Who Live and Work in Indonesian Graveyards
Riski is seven years old and spends nearly all his time in Pondok Kelapa Public Cemetery, where he's a sort of funeral director, gravedigger, and night watchman.