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Go Into Story Interviews — Black List Writers

Over the years, I’ve interviewed dozens of writers whose scripts appeared on the annual Black List: 97 to date. Their collective insight into the craft is major resource for writers. Read, learn… and enjoy!Thomas Aguilar and Michael Ballin (2021 Black List)Matt Altman and Dave Matalon (2024 Black List)Leigh Cesiro and Erica Matlin (2021 Black List)Filipe Coutinho and Ben Mehlman (2021 Black List)Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer (2010 Black List)Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman (2012

React 19.3 ships View Transitions and Fragment Refs

React 19.3 is out. The React team published the release on September 9, 2026, promoting two long-experimental features to stable: View Transitions and Fragment Refs. The release notes on GitHub credit 52 contributors, with 47 pull requests behind View Transitions alone and 26 behind Fragment Refs.There are no breaking changes. Every feature here is something you opt into. View Transitions, and when they actually fireThe new <ViewTransition> component animates elements as they enter, e

3 award-winning movies to watch on Netflix this weekend (September 11-13)

Some weeks, the easiest way to find something good on Netflix is to skip over the newest releases and instead look into its library. The platform's diverse catalog has a lot to offer, especially when it comes to movies that have swept award shows during their respective runs.

I got DOOM running on Android Auto, and it's exactly as impractical as it sounds

<p>“Can it run DOOM?” It’s the question people love to half-jokingly ask about every gadget with a screen. Android, of course, can run DOOM — but what about Android Auto? That’s an entirely different beast.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/doom-on-android-auto-car-screen.jpg' />

If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code

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Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom

Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it ended, unfortunately, a while ago.These days, if you want to win budget, buy-in, and backing for UX, the design has to be provably good for the business, not only for the people using it.And proving that takes more than taping a dollar sign to a redesign. You have to understand how your organization de

Show HN: Swiftcruit – AI assisted technical assessment platform

the platform can create highly relevant real world assessments from just the JD, candidates can solve the problem in our ai assisted IDE generating detailed scorecards including how they use AI. the demo shows the core features. would love the feedback. how are you judging AI proficiency in technical interviews ?

Ask HN: How do you decide an idea is worth building before you start coding?

I’ve been thinking about the gap between having an idea and actually deciding it deserves weeks or months of work.Building has become much cheaper. A developer can prototype something surprisingly fast now.But the decision before building still seems messy.When you’re evaluating an idea, what evidence do you actually trust?Customer interviews?Existing workarounds?Competitor reviews?Search demand?People already paying for alternatives?Your own experience with the problem?And maybe more impor

Your digital movies aren’t really yours, but this (legal) trick helps

Buying digital movies is a risky business. There's no guarantee that you'll always be able to access the TV show or movie that you paid for. While some companies are actively removing people's content, there's one thing you can do to give your collection a better chance of survival.

The most ambitious Linux project of all time failed because lawsuits were more lucrative

Back in 1998, four of the biggest names in enterprise computing agreed on something wild. IBM, the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Sequent, and Intel would merge their separate UNIX systems into one OS for Intel's upcoming 64-bit chips. They called it Project Monterey.

Wi-Fi 8 is the first homelab upgrade to actually get things right

Wi-Fi 7 routers and network cards are finally becoming affordable and commonplace, but if you're a homelabber or someone who just enjoys any sort of self-hosting, you probably haven't had a pressing reason to upgrade to this latest standard.

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

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RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

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5 creative tech hobbies you can jumpstart with an $8 ESP32

<p>ESP32 boards are incredibly versatile tools. You can use them for a huge range of purposes, and they can also be an extremely cheap way to help you get started in a new creative tech hobby.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/01/a7305622.jpg' />

Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light

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How to watch 2026 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec &amp; Montréal for FREE: stream cycling online From anywhere

Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 2026: Friday September 11: 11:00 (EDT)Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2026: Sunday September 13: 10:15 (EDT)FREE streams: CBC Gem and TVA plus(Canada)Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere – over 70% off todayThe UCI World Tour heads to Canada for the 15th edition of both the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal which are being held just two weeks before the World Championships arrive in the country. With the Worl

Show HN: Trailogs – A team&#039;s operational history you can ask questions about

Hi! My name is Marko, and I&#x27;m a developer (primarily backend) who loves building stuff.I&#x27;ve been trying to solve a problem of scattered operational context across Slack threads, tickets, meetings, etc. (my way)... The idea of Trailogs is to be a central event-based history, where each event (log) has structure around it, like categorization, ownership, etc...It has an exploration page, which is basically an AI chat where you can ask questions about what is happening in the company, why

React vs Next.js — The Explanation I Wish Someone Had Given Me

I built a React app from scratch once. I don't recommend it.A few years ago I started a side project with nothing but create-react-app and a lot of confidence. Two weeks in, I had:Hand-rolled a router using window.history and a switch statementWritten my own "smart" fetch wrapper with loading/error states copy-pasted into every componentNo idea how I was going to make the homepage load fast, because everything rendered on the clientNone of that is React's fault. React never promised to sol

React Core 1: Understanding the Basics

IntroductionReact is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. I don't want to talk too much about the introduction—you can Google it or ask an AI about it. Here in this blog, I'll focus on the core concepts you should understand to become comfortable with React. I hope you'll stick around until the end. JSX &amp; How React Renders UIJSX is a syntax extension for JavaScript that allows us to write HTML-like markup inside JavaScript.For example:function App() { return ( &l

Go Into The Story Interviews

Conversations with screenwriters, TV writers, authors, and Hollywood professionals.FILMMAKERS (Screenwriters, Writer-Directors, Directors)2011 Screenwriters Roundtable: Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Jeremiah Friedman, Nick Palmer, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, John Swetnam.2012 Screenwriters Roundtable: Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, John Swetnam.2013 Screenwriters Roundtable: Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, Jo