Technology Commentary

In this excerpt from our upcoming book, Sandrine shares a big aha moment: making great products starts with developing people's thinking.

With headless services, using a GraphQL middleware lets you leverage the strength of decoupled services without the hassle of ‘gluing’ data together.

I live in Seattle, and Amazon is our giant.

You don’t have to be an engineer to be be a racing driver, but you do have to have Mechanical Sympathy. - Jackie Stewart, racing legend

Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This is not a general turn-around, and it's barely a turn-arou...

From a developer's perspective, the fact that Meta's Threads app has rapidly gained over 100 million sign-ups is not the most fascinating aspect of this

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain most of our everyday experiences, oddly enough. QED describes the interaction of matter particles with each other and with light — so that’s pr…

Explain your choices to your users!

Framework’s laptop proves that it can be easy to repair your devices at home. But most companies won’t let you.

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

300 Times a Day When I’m writing, I need as little distraction as possible; I need to get the words out. I do Markdown, but asterisks, octothorps, and other formatting text are visual noise. When I get to publishing the piece, yes, show me all the formatting details because

It is turning out to be a summer of the Internet’s existential crisis, thanks to the rapid growth of Generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems. An information (and disinformation) tsunami not…

A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.

Welcome to the first sprint in the history of computer science. It took humanity a whole century to reach the point where we can sit back and watch twenty-somethings play games and make a fortune out of it (not that I'm complaining, I'm a long-time g...

Software is a vehicle for delivering value to people. Don’t get lost in the tools; keep your sight fixed on the value created.

Secure Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a protocol that allows the exchange of authentication and authorization data between parties…

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.

As I discussed about SAML Authentication in the previous article, let’s now try to understand OAuth 2.0 process.

TypeScript ushered in an era of gradual typing, where developers don’t have to choose between the agility of dynamic languages and the type safety of static languages, all while helping avoid the p...

How can you keep your domain logic database-agnostic and still leverage the benefits of DBMS?

Idempotency in the context of REST APIs and event-driven systems and its importance in building resilient and fault-tolerant systems

About ten years ago, I had a Fitbit Flex. Used it for years – I think it finally died circa 2019? Used it for steps and sleep tracking. Steps, I’m not good at, because my job requires m…

IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. We wanted to know exactly what the heck it is. And so we reached out to Sriram Raghavan, vice president of AI strategy and roadmaps at IBM Research, to get a handle on what Watsonx