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How to use the REPT function in Excel to create text-based progress bars

Build stable, high-performance dashboards using REPT formulas and UNICHAR symbols instead of conditional formatting.

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
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Column: NASCAR's Disastrous 2025 Championship Four Weekend Needs to Be the Format's Last

The big theme of Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Championship race at Phoenix was apology. Kyle Larson, who won an otherwise deserving Cup Series title out of nowhere after a convoluted sequence of ...
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APT Attacks Target Indian Government Using SHEETCREEP, FIREPOWER, and MAILCREEP | Part 2

This is Part 2 of our two-part technical analysis on the Gopher Strike and Sheet Attack campaigns. For details on the Gopher Strike campaign, go to Part 1.IntroductionIn September 2025, Zscaler ...

Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she's in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor's curiosity and years of research

Firaxis has three in-house historians who do research for the games, but often hires outside consultants in areas where their ...
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New/old NASCAR 2026 playoff format leaves almost everyone almost happy

NASCAR has announced a new 10-race playoff system, referred to as the "Chase." The new format is seen as a compromise between the previous winner-take-all system and a season-long points race. It’d be ...