The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

Technology writer Matthew MacDonald began writing QuickBASIC code back in 1988 on the DOS operating system, sharing it on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. “I still remember writing code in white text on its cheery blue background…” He tells his readers on Medium that “I have a confession to make. Before I became a respectable developer working with modern curly-bracket languages like…

Mute individual Tabs in Google Chrome

Tab Muter is a browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that restores tab muting functionality in the browser. Google removed options to mute individual tabs in Chrome in recent versions. […]
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