Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web apps ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...

Using an LLM to migrate a Python web app to Rust seemed like a fun project, but then hit the bumps. Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, ...

According to Andrej Karpathy, MicroGPT has been further simplified into a three‑column Python implementation illustrating the irreducible essence of a GPT-style transformer, as posted on X on February ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...

Playwright Justin Tanner, author of “Pot Mom,” “Little Theatre” and “Voice Lessons,” is one of the signal voices of L.A.’s wild and free intimate theater scene. He has not only written what might be ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerade as spellcheckers but contain functionality to deliver a remote access ...

The Playwright Lab at Dunaway Gardens will bring together established and emerging playwrights, composers, and dramaturgs for a nine-day residency focused on writing, revision, and collaboration. The ...

He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol’s films, and turned his fascination with collectible Americana into books. By Alex Traub Robert Heide, who began his ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In “Marjorie Prime” and other works, Jordan Harrison delivers sweet-bitter anatomies of human connection mediated through technology destined to supersede us. In “Marjorie Prime ...