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How to Add Underlines to Text Where It’s Usually Impossible

The Missing "U" Button In Microsoft Word, you hit Ctrl+U. In HTML, you use ` `. But what about Instagram captions? What about Twitter? What...

Nitro Not Required Discord sells "Nitro" subscriptions for fancy profile banners and animated avatars. But you don't need to pay monthly fees to...

Facebook’s Missing Features If you have ever tried to write a long, structured post on Facebook, you know the pain. You want to make a header...

The Developer’s Friction Programming is 10% writing code and 90% debugging why the code won't run. A surprising amount of that 90% is caused by...

Garbage In, Garbage Out Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz, and Yoast are powerful. They analyze your content for...

The Chemist’s Keyboard Problem Chemistry has a strict grammar. Structure matters. CO2 is not Carbon Dioxide; it is a typo. CO₂ is Carbon...

The Struggle of the Plain Text Poster Facebook is weird. If you write a "Note" or use the desktop editor in some modes, you get formatting...

The Uniformity of the Web The internet was designed to be uniform. Facebook looks the same for everyone. Twitter tweets all use the same font....

The Art of the Redacted Whisper There is something inherently intriguing about a crossed-out word. It suggests a mistake, a censorship, or a...

The Rosetta Stone of Computing To a computer, everything is a number. An image is a stream of numbers. A song is a stream of numbers. This text...

White Hat vs. Black Hat In the movies, password cracking is a frantic typing match between a hoodie-wearing hacker and a sweating sysadmin. In...

The Fragmented Workflow Here is a typical scenario: You copy a paragraph from a PDF. It has broken line breaks. You go to Site A to remove line...