Coolest Projects 2026 opens globally for young makers; a free online showcase that matches International Day of Education’s youth-led theme.

When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that ...

Vibe coding is programming by gut feel. You have an idea for a tool, a website, or a repetitive task you want to automate… but instead of enrolling in a coding boot camp or slogging through YouTube ...

Getting a project live is messy, technical, and packed with server jargon you don’t really need to learn. I’ve always hated that part of the process, which is why I’ve relied on Kinsta for more than ...

If you want to learn how to code, taking your first steps can be daunting, but here’s the big secret: There are plenty of free and cheap resources you can use to get all the help you need, learn new ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

When GPT-5 came out, I didn’t just want to glance at changelogs or watch demo videos. I wanted to see what it could actually do for me, hands-on. Could it really build functional, fun, and usable ...