Technology Commentary

[Sean Haas] is a “dangerous freelance historian,” and his recent talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Southern California covers the cryotron — a strange detour on the road to…

In 1987, your portable Osborne computer had a problem. Who you gonna call? Well, maybe the company that made “The Osborne Survival Kit,” a video from Witt Services acquired by the Compu…

The AI Industry’s Creation Myth

The new photobook “LAN Party” looks back at the era of online gaming, and gamers, in the 1990s and early ’00s — a time when web-based technology was in flux.

One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to answer those questions, I wrote up some notes, which summarize two perspectives on “being a technology company.” The first perspective is Ben Thompson’s “Software has zero marginal costs.

These engineering disciplines must coexist and work in parallel to provide secure and reliable applications in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

By distributing tasks between the edge and the cloud, we can optimize AI applications for speed, efficiency, security and privacy.

A brief book update: I wanted to share that Slow Productivity debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list last week! Which is ... Read more

Hazel Weakly discusses platforms and platform engineering, and what it means to learn, and how collective thought scales across a team, an organization and an industry.

Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away, but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their time working on.

Wonder Tools 💥 Candor reveals the person behind the professional

Great teams don’t have perfect members. Instead, they have honest, open communication that nurtures trust and a feeling of unity.

In this blog, let’s learn the potential of a MyScale free pod and what kind of GenAI applications you can build using 5 million free vectors with the free pod of MyScale vector database.

The Zen Family Dental; Dr. Tej A. Shah; Peace of Mind Dentistry; Ashland, MA

How throughout history, increasing computing capability has lead to increasing burden on users.

I recently read "A Philosophy of Software Design" 2nd Edition by Prof. John Ousterhout, and this is my review.

A look at the various technological and organizational factors that have driven up observability costs and what to do about them.

AI may never be a cure-all for observability, but it can certainly be a valuable companion.

Here are some approaches to enhance the environmental sustainability of cloud native applications using optimizations in Kubernetes runtimes.

Beneath the pavement, there is turmoil.

By Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman Social media makes it possible for a piece of content to rapidly spread to millions of people in a matter of hours. In fact, “going viral” may be the defining phenomenon of the digital public sphere. Justine Sacco was flying from New York to South Africa to see family […]

People aren't using location app What3words enough. Everyone has GPS on their phones, so a new way to identify locations seems unnecessary. However, what if you want to meet at…

I recently redesigned my homepage to provide a clearer context about “me” as a writer and as a person. Not just to simplify things, but a…

We’ve always been outspoken about running a profitable, financially responsible company in an industry that has become incredibly proficient at losing buckets of money. While everyone else was celebrating burning cash, we chose profit instead. Still do.

Organizations should not build an infrastructure solely dedicated to AI while leaving workloads like data analytics and data science to fend for themselves.

Websites are under threat from AI, reduced social media traffic, and chatbot search. We spoke to a WebOps vendor about the fate of the web.

The whole point of achieving this performance level is to run more experiments with high confidence so your organization can learn more.