Technology Commentary

Business strategy is very easy to get wrong. You’re trying to make sure your resources and assets are efficiently deployed and focussed on your end goal, and that’s hard. There’s no magic bullet th…

A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to need to make. And, a while in the making, an experi…

That every problem needs an engineering solution—and that technology alone can provide it.

Every person has their own idea of the things that keep them alive.

From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. Enjoy! At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock developer potential. To find ways to let devs do more of the work they love and reduce the amount of time they spend dealing with needless hurdles, idling and churn.

With context, it comes understanding Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

Good practices, pains and other considerations from a client's perspective when building third party integrations

Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music.

In an interview with DPReview, Sigma CEO Kazoo Tamaki made some observations about the impact of computational photography and the rise of camera phones.  The technology that has impressed me the m…

SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested

Often, in the drive for efficiency, simplicity and speed we end up introducing unexpected complexity and new problems we hadn’t anticipated.

An outline of the options available in the Elixir BREAK menu.

We never knew how close we came to being crushed.

Throughout history scarcity has been the defining characteristic of economics, and really of power and control in general. It does power the law of supply and demand, the fundamental tenant of microeconomics, after all. People with information not accessible to others, or governments or groups with access to weapons not …

Learn how Fission models its work and communication style on the distributed systems we help build and support.

Women's History is being celebrated all month, and we have another story about an influential woman in science for you! Gladys West is an American mathematician who made significant contributions to

Just over 27 years ago, John Perry Barlow's declaration of the independence of Cyberspace claimed that governments "have no sovereignty" over the networked world. In 2023, we have ample reason to know better than that, but we still expect the free-software community to be left alone by the affairs of governments much of the time. A couple of recent episodes related to the war in Ukraine are making it clear that there are limits to our independence.

How to spend less time on setup and level the playing field

Five Things I’ve Learned About Information Systems - After nearly 20 years, here are five things I’ve learned about (information) systems.

A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.

It’s a community effort to bring back a disappearing form factor.

Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”

With client-side compute, storage and edge computers to decentralize data, what if we abandoned the notion that applications need to keep server-side state?