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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

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

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Loaded dice, card cheaters, and other unethical board game parts you can 3D print

The great thing about 3D printers is that they can make almost anything these days. The bad thing about 3D printers is that you can make almost anything with them.<img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/shutterstock_1754612921.jpg' />

React Server Components for SPA Veterans

React Server Components for SPA VeteransYou already know how to build a single-page app. You have shipped several. You reach for useState, you reach for useEffect, you wire up a fetch, and by now the shape of that code arrives before the thought does.Server Components break the reflex. Most explanations of them start from the framework's side — routing, bundling, the wire format — which is exactly backwards for a developer whose mental model is already built and working. So this one starts

This battery setting broke my Galaxy Watch's notifications for weeks

I nearly gave up on wearing my Galaxy Watch altogether after a stretch of missed texts and silent calendar alerts. The culprit turned out to be a setting I'd flipped on to squeeze out more battery life.<img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2025/04/apps-on-a-galaxy-watch-6.jpg' />

My favorite kitchen upgrade proves that a real smart home is more than plugs and bulbs

Putting sensors all over the home and connecting them to Home Assistant is fun, I know, but it isn't for everyone — not yet. Thankfully, there are smart home upgrades that don't require any apps. I may have replaced every light switch in my home with a smart one, but my favorite smart home upgrade doesn't connect to my Homey Pro at all, and it's an improvement my en

6 must-watch shows to stream before the 2026 Emmys

Television’s highest honors will be awarded to several shows at the 2026 Primetime Emmys. HBO led the field with 122 total nominations, including nominations at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, followed by Netflix (111) and Apple TV (89). These three services will be searching for Emmy glory in several of the major categories, including drama series, comedy series, an

I tried to live an entire day inside apps built with Expo. Here's where it broke.

There are thousands of apps on the App Store and Google Play running on Expo's open source tooling. That's a big number, but it doesn't tell you much. What I actually wanted to know: do those apps cover a full day, start to finish, without me reaching for anything else on my phone?So I ran the experiment. One day, Expo apps only. By breakfast I'd paid a celebrity to record a video. By lunch I was generating an app from my phone. By late afternoon I was sweating through a shirt. By bedtime I was

There's a tiny computer hiding in most USB-C cables (and it isn't always used for good)

Two USB-C cables can look identical, cost wildly different amounts, and behave nothing alike. The reason sits inside the connector housing: a chip that talks to your devices before any power moves. It's genuinely useful engineering. It's also a convenient place to hide something nasty.

TanStack Start Basics Part 2 — Connecting to Your Directus Backend

Our frontend has been static so far — just hardcoded headings on a few pages. Today we connect it to the Directus backend built earlier in this series, using the official Directus SDK to pull real product data into our TanStack Start app. Installing the Directus SDKThere are a few ways to talk to Directus from a frontend — the REST API directly, GraphQL — but the SDK is the cleanest option, and what we're using here.npm install @directus/sdk Creating the Directus HelperInside src/l

These 5 legendary free, open-source apps are better than their expensive paid alternatives

Conventional wisdom says that if something costs money, it's probably better than a free alternative. However, that logic completely falls apart when it comes to software — especially with free and open-source software (FOSS). The space has matured to the point where many free apps don't just compete with their paid counterparts — they beat them outright. Here are m

The 60-year-old Unix design choice that made the Linux desktop a mess

One reason that Linux has struggled to gain desktop users is the perception that the Linux desktop is a mess. Apps look too different from each other, and command-line elitists rule the system. The way the Linux desktop is the way it is largely stems from Linux's predecessor, Unix, and some design choices made in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

OpenAI Agents API

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The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

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Consumers are growing worried about their personal finances and the job market

A New York Fed survey has found that consumers grew more worried in August about their personal financial situation and the job market.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1661920405155-8656a02f3758?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Nnx8Sm9iJTIwTWFya2V0fGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NjIwMjgwNTM&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />

Even Microsoft's own software teams are struggling with the avalanche of AI-generated code

Microsoft worries developers are submitting a higher volume of extensions due to AIIt's already made some review changes, but the Edge team has had to make further changesEdge extensions will also be reassessed every 15 days to prove qualityMicrosoft's Edge team has warned that vibe coding has contributed to a sharp rise in extension submissions for the browser simply because developers can build and tweak their extensions far more quickly.While the company largely se

Apple Watch's new health upgrades are more than just fitness tracking tools — here are 5 features that could change how you monitor your wellbeing

The Apple Watch Series 12 and its big sibling, the Apple Watch Ultra 4, were the latest wearables announced alongside the iPhone Duo at Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ event, and the array of new health features haven’t let me down. Though I didn’t get the design upgrades I was hoping for (I wanted Apple to do a 180-degree turn and debut a completely fresh look for its watches), we got some smart new color options in the process. But that aside, the new monitoring tools

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

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Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

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After a month with the Pixel 11—these are the 4 things not enough people are talking about

The first 24 hours with a new device are always exciting as you set things up and check out new features. But it's after using it for several weeks that you start to find the hidden gems. And while the Pixel 11 series is getting a lot of negative attention for being so similar to the outgoing model, there's a lot that's new. Here are four features I haven't seen men