Technology Commentary

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. There is a way to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

Jeff Ding's diffusion theory of the role of technology in great-power competition also applies to AI adoption, and it suggests that companies obsessed with the frontier might be optimizing for the wrong thing.

Today’s post is a bit different from my usual deep dives into mesh geometry. It’s a story about architecture – and about going back to the beginning. Think back to how you learned…

A curated directory of PostgreSQL extensions and tools. Replace Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MongoDB with one database you already know.

Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 from back when …

Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives

cpp-httplib is an HTTP/HTTPS library for C++. Just copy a single header file, httplib.h , and you're ready to go. When you need a quick HTTP server or client

A gentle rant on the topic of libraries that run as Elixir applications and why that's an anti-pattern for library design.

What SQL/PGQ property graphs are, how a relational schema maps onto them, what they compile to, and tables can be both a vertex and an edge.

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

Posted on Saturday 11 Jul 2026. 1,204 words, 15 links. By Matt Webb.

The world of software has seen many paradigms come and go, all of which were supposed to revolutionize its development. Still, one of the basic tenets in engineering of there being no shortcuts to …

An old algebra teacher used to say, “You have to take what you know and use it to get what you don’t know.” You might say the same thing about converting analog signals into digit…

You know what they used to say– once you go Commodore, you’ll never leave by any door. Well, they might not have said that, but given the prevalence of projects still using Commodore-br…

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It wa…

Choreo is an Elixir library for building domain-specific diagrams (C4, FSM, ERD, Sequence, Workflow, Threat Model) and performing semantic graph analysis on top of Yog.

Stop scrolling thousands of modules - get coverage for the files you touched, and a PR comment that tells you if you made things better or worse

I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time. We are in a strange time w…

Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.

It seems almost quaint now, but there was once a version of the Internet ruled by influencers that were honest, high integrity folks who genuinely cared about the impact of their words. Perhaps the…

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a family computer. Sure, there was a basic cart…

Hunk is a review-first terminal diff viewer for agent-authored changesets. Multi-file review stream, inline AI annotations, watch mode, and Git/Jujutsu integration.

Using APIs to enforce policy at the boundary between interacting systems is no longer enough.

Chasing the raster, glimpsing the future, and a critical disagreement.