Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that makes us grin like an idiot every time we use it. This week, Brett tells us about ...

The most copied StackOverflow Java code snippet of all time contains a bug. The admission comes from the author of the snippet itself, Andreas Lundblad, a Java developer at Palantir, and one of the ...

Whether you are a seasoned programmer or a beginner, chances are you spend a lot of your time looking for code snippets on Stack Overflow and similar sites. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, ...

A small block of code. A code snippet can be any reasonably small amount of source code or a stand-alone subroutine that can be deployed in several programs. See source code and pastebin. THIS ...

Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...

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If you're a seasoned programmer, or even if you've just learned how, you probably have a few reusable code snippets. SnippShot is a cloud-based webapp that easily saves your snippets, allowing you to ...

Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms. Most search engines, though, don’t exactly specialize in code search and so you end up with a couple of links (one ...

The Visual Studio Code team this week announced improvements to the editor's Emmet experience, which speeds up development via expandable code snippets. Emmet has been around for years as an extension ...

I'm writing a JavaDoc for a class and I want to include a short snippet of code, say 5 lines, illustrating the use of a certain feature. I can surround the code example with <code></code>, and my IDE ...