Technology Commentary

As a developer creating pull requests in a git repo, you almost certainly use one of two distinct workflows for integrating changes from one branch into another: merging or rebasing. There are three key points in the development process where you need to do this:

How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style

Let's explore examples of the Mediator Pattern in C#! See how the Mediator Pattern in C# can promote loose coupling, and increase scalability.

At Stack Builders, our mission is to push the boundaries of the software industry through quality, pragmatic solutions that bring to life our clients' vision. One of the ways that we invest in our team to ensure alignment with this mission is to have all of our full-time engineers complete an approximately 50-hour training course in the Haskell language early in their career at Stack Builders.

The year-end Tedium awards continue with an excellent, breathtaking feature on Elliott Smith’s high-school bands. Yes, multiple.

I’m lucky to have two hands, let’s be clear, and the minor struggles I’ve had with them over the years don’t qualify as any kind of real hardship. Yet there have been a lot …

A WebAssembly component plays a critical role in how runtimes that run inside WebAssembly modules are deployed. But its standardization is still being worked out.

A carefully selected list of newsletters for every software engineer.

Understanding how human memory and learning works, the differences between beginners and experts, and practical steps developers can take to improve their learning, training, and recruitment.

Rust Revolution: Exploring its ascendancy as the future of system-level Programming - Unveiling the capabilities and impact of the rising language in software development.

Last week I bought a Christmas tree. It’s not the tallest, nor the bushiest, the tip is kinda crooked, but it gets the work done. While carrying my new acquisition through the snowy streets, the comforting smell of freshly cut pine reminded me of how much I like trees, specially git worktrees.

eBPF stands for extended Berkeley packet filter. Find out everything you should know about Linux eBPF in this comprehensive technology guide.

Beware of temporary alliances.

Provisioning a fleet of servers in 30 minutes is magic, but it is not a requirement that comes up that often for most businesses, David Heinemeier Hansson argues.

2023 was a breakout year for GenAI to help developers build apps. and toolmakers tried to meet developers where they work most.

The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

A very basic scatterplot built with base R and the plot() function. Explanation and code provided.

The use of the phrase “critical mass” in this NYTimes story about the enshittification of Goodreads stopped me in my tracks. Give all of Goodreads’s issues, it might seem easy eno…

Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime.

Working on vintage computers, electronics, and FPGAs

Here's the hard to find ISO version of Open Genera 2.0 with the patch in a zip file. This requires Tru64 to work (either on a physical or emulated...

SK8 is written for multimedia and authoring tool developers who integrate media components (movies, sounds, still pictures, text, etc.) into a final...