DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps. Here are the four levels of DevOps documentation maturity: [OS_EMBEDDED_MENU_RIGHT:]

Unless business systems get a universal language that works across all of them, businesses will be in deep trouble. Many already are.

Can Google crawl webpages that utilize infinite scrolling? Yes, to a certain extent. Here’s how.

Web scrapers break all the time due to changes to websites. This post shows how to scrape modern sites with higher robustness.

The first time I took on the role of a lead engineer, a few years ago, I had a really hard time learning how to prioritize and delegate work. For much of my early career, I had simply never needed any planning skills beyond “say yes to everything and work yourself into the ground”. One of the best pieces of professional advice I’ve ever received came during this time, from a mentor who told me to delegate the things I was already good at. If I’m good at something, it means I’m actually equipped to evaluate whether my team is doing a good job. It also means I don’t need the practice as much, so delegating frees me up to improve other skills. There’s an oft-repeated myth about artificial intelligence that says that since we all know that humans are prone to being racist and sexist, we should figure out how to create moral machines that will treat human beings more equitably than we could. You’ve seen this myth in action if you’ve ever heard someone claim that using automated systems to make sentencing decisions will lead to more fairness in the criminal legal system. But if we all know that humans are racist and sexist and we need the neutrality of machines to save us—in other words, if we should delegate morality to AI—how will we ever know if the machines are doing the job we need them to do? And how will we humans ever get better?

RSS3 aims to be the feed standard for Web3. It has no relation to previous versions of RSS, and uses crypto wallets as the basis for feeds.

Ellen Chisa has a new newsletter on product management, and I particularly enjoyed this week’s piece on 34 Product Lessons.

Or in other words, Ethereum and similar blockchains

One unique feature of the new RP2040 microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is its Programmable I/O (PIO) peripheral.

I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford's EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers...

Recursive queries are typically used to deal with hierarchical or tree-structured data. A common example is when you have a manager employee relation in a table and you have to construct the organization tree under a manager or find all N level managers of an employee. Strictly speaking, this process is iteration not recursion, but RECURSIVE is the terminology chosen by the SQL standards committee. PostgreSQL CTE: Common Table Expression From the docs:

Developers have less control of their careers than they think

I’ve been reading about different approaches to watermarking AI and the datasets used to train them. This seems to be an active area of research within the machine learning community. But, of…

Ben Syverson has posted a wonderful Twitter thread on design concepts for Apple computers that never came to production. Check the thread here and if you like looking at the Mac design ecosphere, a…

People are attracted to free software for a number of reasons, including price, overall quality, community support, and available features. But, for many of us, the value of free software is to be found in its ability to allow us to actually own and maintain control over our systems. Antifeatures in free software tend not to last long, and free drivers can often unlock capabilities of the hardware that its vendors may not have seen fit to make available. Intel's upcoming "software defined silicon" (SDSi) mechanism may reduce that control, though, by taking away access to hardware features from anybody who has not paid the requisite fees.

This tutorial explains what is Microsoft's Pluton Security Processor, how it's different from TPM 2.0, why you may need it, and when to expect it.

API Documentation

How the mind develops software

Meet Amazon Science’s newest research area.

This document describes the internals of PostgreSQL for database administrators and system developers.

The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.

Some games on a website

An open standard for data-driven blocks

"Embracing Modern C++ Safely" aims to ensure C++ engineers safely apply the modern features of C++11/14 in ways that truly add value to their organizations.

In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager.

Want to build a function by composition, rather than by writing each function long-hand? Come for the crazy, stay for the tea.