Technology Commentary

Book notes on "The Ascetic Programmer: How asceticism benefits programming, science, and the arts" by Antonio Piccolboni

Come along to the ‘Digital Identities Over Time’ online exhibition, where we will be showcasing work by Anshul Roy, Jeanne Jo and Mac Andre Arboleda. These artists took place in a virtual residency programme to explore futures of digital identities.

There’s a good few options for exporting data out of FPGAs, like Ethernet, USB2, or USB3. Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve Markgraf] brings us the hs…

With the news of Spotify bricking their Car Thing, now is the time to hack it. Spotify released a statement suggesting Car Thing owners reset to factory settings and safely dispose following local …

Watching a video about a scratch-built ultra-precise switch for metrology last week reminded me that it’s not always the projects that are the most elegant solutions that I enjoy reading about the …

Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott about Microsoft’s approach to building AI

Clayton Christensen continually predicts that Apple will be disrupted because his theory does not incorporate the importance of the user experience.

Breaking down the Big Tech AI landscape through the lens of integration and modularization

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

Duct tape programming is low status but creates value. Enterprise rewrites that tidy up duct tape projects at far greater expense are higher status.

What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works.

Self-service platform aims to make creating sophisticated stateful analytics easier and faster for people without coding experience.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary an...

The tale of restoring an ’80s timeless classic.

In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at a distance, all at once. …

The advertising world is uncomplicated at its core, and utterly bewildering when seen from the outside. The easy bit stems from a simple axiom: Wherever you can find the attention of potential cust…

The world around DSC has changed significantly; only some of the components to talk to the DSC engine are written in PowerShell. Instead…

Incident reviews can be productive enough to be considered an action item on their own, if you have the right perspective and can avoid a few traps.

How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

Just ship

These are some important git commands to learn for beginners when they want to collaborate with teams in a company.

Discussing the invention of HDPE, one of the best plastics around, and how it evolved from Hula Hoops to milk crates to plastic lumber.

The recent performance of the stock market brings to mind the comment of a noted economist who was once asked whether the market is a good leading indicator of general economic activity. Wonderful,…

As we are moving forward with the release of M+Netmail (FAQ below) and migrating this site to it's new home, we will be re-designing this website to bring it the usability and performance enhancements that have been requested.

I’ve previously thought of Jamie Zawinski not just as an excellent hacker but also as a marketing talent, creator of the original mozilla.org “brand.” (Imagined conversation: “You know, these open source and free software types are all radical anarchists or Marxist hippies; they’ll really go for a brand image that reminds them of trashing a WTO meeting” “Well, Jamie, you’re the expert. . . .”) Now based on his “groupware bad” rant it turns out that JWZ is also a leading-edge corporate competitive strategist; maybe the people getting Harvard Business School MBAs could take a break and hang out at the DNA Lounge instead.

Since the first time I heard the word “groupware” in…. I think it was ’91, referring to Lotus Notes, I have wondered what it was supposed to be. Like, in an ideal world wher…

"The trick you want to accomplish is that when one person is using your software, it suddenly provides value to that person and their entire circle of friends, without the friends having had to do anything at all. Then, later, you pull ...