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Grade 2 Braille

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 18 #564

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't too tough, if you're a musician of any kind. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET'

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 18, #1552

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a well-known word, but the letters aren't ones I often guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you toda

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 18, #830

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix of categories -- plus a purple set where you'll unscramble four related words. Read on for clues and today's answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric sco

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 17 #563

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one. Hint: The words are paired, and once you find one, it's pretty easy to spot its match. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connectio

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 17, #829

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix. I especially liked the purple category, since I have fond memories of watching all four of those answers. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there

Word numbers: Billion approaches (2008)

Word numbers, Part 1: Billion approaches ITA Software recruits computer scientists using puzzles such as the following. If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter? In a series of posts, Dylan Thurston and I will solve this problem step by step, introducing concepts such as monoids and differentiation along the way. We will use the programming language Haskell: every post will be a literate program that y

WordNumbers: Counting letters of number names, alphabetized and concatenated

Word numbers, Part 1: Billion approaches ITA Software recruits computer scientists using puzzles such as the following. If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter? In a series of posts, Dylan Thurston and I will solve this problem step by step, introducing concepts such as monoids and differentiation along the way. We will use the programming language Haskell: every post will be a literate program that y

Just Use HTML

September 10, 2025 Just use HTML I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and addi

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 16, #1550

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a fun word, and the letters are fairly easy to guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Word

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16 #562

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle stumped me, both in finding the answers and in unscrambling them. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house. What actually followed? I ended up reverse-engineering onboarding flows, decompiling an APK, MITMing TLS sessions, and writing cryptographic scripts. My main motivation for this project really stemmed from the fact that the camera annoyed me from day one. Setting the camera up in frigate was quite painful, no one really seemed to know how t

Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development

As WordPress projects grow in complexity, organizing your codebase becomes essential. Whether you’re building a plugin, theme, or block library, a clean and scalable architecture makes development faster, onboarding easier, and long-term maintenance far less painful. In Refactoring the Multi-Block Plugin: Build Smarter, Register Cleaner, Scale Easier, I walked through setting up a flexible structure for managing multiple static, dynamic, and interactive blocks within a single plugin. That setup

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 15, #1549

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle didn't take me too many guesses. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give yo

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 15 #561

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. Not everyone is familiar with this topic, which means finding the words will be even more of a crapshoot than usual. The theme is "for a fortune," but it's not the kind of fortune you might think of immediately. If you need hints and

Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language

Prakhar Khanna / Android Authority Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me having a conversation about different topics in the language and I realized that the chatbot could actually coach me and help me practice. As a result, I was able to learn new words, discuss topics I lacked the proficiency for, and ask questions about specific meani

10 Puzzle Games Like Wordle You Can Play Now

Wordle has grown to be one of the most popular words games since Josh Wardle launched it in 2021. The game asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have a two-step strategy to help you solve the puzzle every time). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for the wrong letters, yellow blocks for the right letters in the wrong spot and green blocks for the right letters in the correct spot. CNET's Gael Cooper has loads of tips and tricks to tackle each NY Tim

Pass: Unix Password Manager

Introducing pass Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass , each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities. pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. All passw

Lessons in disabling RC4 in Active Directory (2021)

Was pulled in to a fun customer issue last Friday around disabling RC4 in Active Directory. What happened was, as you can imagine, not good: RC4 was disabled and half their environment promptly started having a Very Bad Day. — Steve Syfuhs (@SteveSyfuhs) March 1, 2021 Twitter warning: Like all good things this is mostly correct, with a few details fuzzier than others for reasons: a) details are hard on twitter; b) details are fudged for greater clarity; c) maybe I'm just dumb. RC4 is a stream

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14 #560

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. Some of the words are hard to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visi

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 13, #1547

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I'm just going to say it. Today's Wordle puzzle is a real streak-breaker. It's an unusual word, and it's tough to put the letters together. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, re

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 13 #559

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is fun, but tricky. Even after I had solved for a few answers, I didn't quite understand the theme, though it eventually came to me. (Answer below.) If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 13, #825

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I got a kick out of today's NYT Connections puzzle, which didn't seem as tough as usual. Fans of foreign money will like the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you pla

The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 12, #824

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is tricky -- it contains one of those purple categories where you have to mentally subtract a letter from four related words to see how they connect. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, lik

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 12, #1546

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle has only one vowel, so if you often guess AUDIO or ADIEU as your first word, change it up. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hint

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 12 #558

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle might trip you up. Some of the answers are long and tough to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answer

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in September

1Password has long been one of our favorite password managers. It's our upgrade pick for all the extra features it offers compared to other password managers. 1Password has apps that work just about everywhere, including on macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. There are plug-ins for your favorite web browser too, which makes it easy to generate and edit new passwords on the fly. What Are the Benefits of 1Password? There are also some very nice features in 1Password that you won't