The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbness I once saw a young glassblower in Istanbul, still new to his ...

I hope all you fine Strandistarians are good and stuffed after your big Thanksgiving feasts. It’s always something of a recovery process after the holiday dinner is over and the turkey and other fatty ...

Bash Scripts are essential for easing the lives of sys admins, developers, and Linux users in general. And an integral part of bash scripting is conditional statements, i.e. if, else if, and if else ...

Elif Nur Turhan has done it again – and for the first time. Turhan, a heavy-hitting dynamo from Istanbul, stopped France’s Rima Ayadi in the sixth round to earn a WBA interim women’s junior ...

A total of 934 participants from 30 states and Canada took part in the annual challenge this year Taylor Stanberry/Instagram A woman has won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge's grand prize after ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java ternary operator provides an abbreviated syntax to evaluate a true or false condition, ...

For this week’s Marginalia, I spoke with Elif Shafak in anticipation of the paperback release of her novel, There Are Rivers In the Sky. The book follows three primary characters at three very ...

A bobcat was documented killing and eating a 13-foot Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Alligators, native snakes, and birds of prey are also known to prey on pythons. Burmese pythons are an ...

Elif Shafak writes with her heart as much as her imagination. Her eye and ear seem to gravitate toward characters whose stories are rarely told: women, religious minorities, the displaced and despised ...

Burmese pythons in Florida. The invasive snakes number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc and destruction across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem. Native to ...