Technology Commentary

How screen protectors became a part of our lives, and the weird reason some early cathode ray tubes needed them.

Platform engineering gives developers a menu of approved tool and library options, which allows organizations to onboard developers more quickly, however there are potential cons as well.

A look at how organizations can adopt a service ownership approach and the benefits it brings.

How does implicit bias hold back many of the open source diversity and inclusion efforts? And why does your community need to address it now?

Self-contained apps are appealing to businesses looking for a balance between highly centralized and highly distributed technologies.

What does a cloud architect do? In this article, we explain the role, its responsibilities and the skills needed to be successful on the job.

Once upon a time when search was new, Google came along and put the whole darn Internet in RAM. This was an astonishing (and expensive) feat of engineering at the time – one that gave Google …

If you follow the work of NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, he’ll tell you where he believes the current university system is going wrong and

With algorithm development, naive solutions provide a crucial reference implementation for your testing.

An analysis on boredom in engineering productivity and how it can lead to deeper innovation.

I had initially planned to focus the sequel of the 1st part on discussing more use cases, but I meanwhile think it couldn’t hurt to insert a quick presentation of some certificate best practi…

It’s been criticized by everyone from WhatsApp to Wikipedia.

I apologize for this title because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cu…

Every so often Gartner analysts nail it with a viewpoint on technologies or suppliers that leaves you thinking, why didn’t I think of that?

The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users.

Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to

Posted on Thursday 4 May 2023. 1,178 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Knowing how to handle it when things break is more important than preventing things from ever breaking.

In continuing with our long series of glossary entries, let’s take a look at some online-community-related terms hiding in the archives.

This essay is an excerpt from my book, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI, with alterations to make it more readable on the web and minor additions to make it work as a standalone document.

Because my brain was infested with worms at a very early age, I value continuity of username across platforms more than my own sanity. I have used the same username since AIM, and god help me, I will not lose it. My username has served me well through Neopets and Xanga and Livejournal and LikeALittle […]

How I used new(ish) Internationalization standards to make a backendless, offline-capable, collision-free URL shortener.

SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …

My day began as it often does this week: I posted something to Mastodon tangentially critical of Mastodon, and people got grumpy with me. It's fine, I get it's just gonna happen, but as I often say, I prefer not to just complain, but to suggest how things might be

A blog post from the engineering team at Amazon Prime Video has been roiling the cloud native computing community with its explanation that, at least in the case of the video monitoring, a monolithic architecture has produced superior performance over a microservices and serverless-led approach.