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Nintendo’s strong-arming of the Switch emulator Yuzu shows how little the company understands its own fan base. Emulators will not die so quietly.

Posted on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024. 819 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Developer experience is important when designing software, but when it comes to APIs, it becomes essential.

Chaosnet is a long-extinct network protocol. But traces of it survive in the plumbing of the internet.

This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from.

What is dystopia? What is technology? What is progress? What is society? What is civilization? It’s all a moving target. What seems like dystopia, seems normal eventually. I was reminded of t…

The field of media ecology can inform how we think about using software to reinforce a sense of place.

Is it possible to build software that respects and reinforces a “sense of place,” rather than regressing to some placeless, generic style?

Can software feel rooted in the place where it was made?

How my Hudson Valley projects have gotten me thinking about how to imbue software with local flavor.

The definition of a subgroup is obvious, but the definition of a normal subgroup is subtle. An alternate definition and generalizations to category theory.

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual al…

AI tools are already automating large parts of the software engineering role – but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics?

S3's interface doesn't allow it to stand in for a filesystem

Listen, everyone lives different lives so I can’t speak to anyone else’s specific situation, but the biggest hurdle I currently have with using the Vision Pro is that I can’t use it while I’m around my wife. I can hang out with her and use an

Have you heard of the concept of Database Sharding?

Marques Brownlee’s viral Fisker Ocean car review highlights the all-too-common pitfalls of shipping before the firmware is ready.

Stryker Mutator: Test your tests with mutation testing.

Enterprises should insist on a standard model for application networking that works as well for hypervisor and bare metal-based workloads as for Kubernetes.

A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI

Open source code makes a lot of difference when it comes to how you can tailor an OS, adjust it to meet your needs, and fit it to the required tasks – whether large or huge.

Code is type-checked, interpreted, linted and/or compiled, automatically finding issues and errors. Why not do this for configuration, too?

Maritime Morse code was formally phased out in 1999, but in California, a group of enthusiasts who call themselves the “radio squirrels” keeps the tradition alive.

Discover the ideal JavaScript bundler for your projects! Explore the differences between Rollup, Webpack, and Parcel in this article.

Collaboration and new research on productivity