Time to capsize the mailbag, check the leftovers before the year checks out. Random notes like the lay-lie muddle, via Gillian Appleton: “I downloaded a relaxation app but had to delete it as the ...

When a friend recently sent me this New York Times profile of influencer Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, in a text that said, “This reminds me of your novel in its futuristic weirdness,” I was on ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

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Possessive apostrophes show who or what owns something. The apostrophe goes in a different place depending on whether the owner is singular (one) or plural (more than one). Be careful with the word ...

Reporting verbs help you introduce the ideas or words of others as paraphrase or quotation from scholarly literature. Always accompanied by a reference, they indicate where you’re drawing on other ...

Nock can be used to test modules that perform HTTP requests in isolation. For instance, if a module performs HTTP requests to a CouchDB server or makes HTTP requests to the Amazon API, you can test ...