Developer Waldo Jaquith has launched a public beta of Virginia Decoded, an astonishingly user-friendly presentation of his home state’s code. It’s the first iteration of Jaquith’s open-government ...

They look innocent, but the combination of cookie, snowman, box, and parachute emojis can be code for "a large batch of cocaine has arrived." A school bus is code for Xanax; a blue heart, ...

It’s the most powerful language in the world, but most don’t understand it. We’re talking about the programming code that dictates how our computers and mobile phones work, and increasingly, even our ...

A U.K.-based program called Decoded promises to teach n00bs to code in a day. Writer Louise Jack (and many ad industry types) signed on to find out if they can walk in with a civilian’s basic web ...