Technology Commentary

In the beginning the Sysadmin created the Infrastructure and the Network.And the Infrastructure was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

It is very likely that many of us will see some of our work replaced by AI.

I’ve been following with great interest this series of articles by John Gruber (and Matt Birchler’s related story) about the chasm between iOS and Android apps. I have some thoughts since expanding my app knowledge beyond iOS and iPadOS is one of my goals for 2023. About a month ago, during my holiday break, I

W Curtis Peston, aka Mr Backup, has spent 30 years in the backup industry and we interviewed him about the changes during that time.

Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?” They were convinced this was an internal cultural problem, mentioning the classic, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” quote often attributed to Peter Drucker, although probably incorrectly.

The introducer-in-chief introduces two people to each other, and then steps aside and lets those two work together. That's when the principles of the Open Organization come into play.

In the second part of this series, I explore community thinking patterns #4 and #5. Then, I provide a fictional scenario to illustrate thought processes and community influences.

The history of everyone’s favorite attempt to keep the suspense going for a little bit longer, the spoiler alert. People who spoil things are evil. Obviously.

Is edge computing the next frontier of technology or is it just another place where we deploy and operate computers?

When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of

I began this journey convinced that Steampipe could help the Fediverse evolve, but not sure exactly how. My first thought was to use Steampipe’s API-wrangling superpower to study patterns of …

In recent months, numerous high-profile tech companies have announced massive layoffs — even though, by all accounts, those companies have been doing tremendously well. Over at The Verge, Elizabeth…

The Unix epoch is an arbitrary date no more.

With this write-up, I want to outline my current thinking around large language models like OpenAI's chatGPT.

I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead of Android. My feeling is that you can take the best app in a category on Android, and that would be the 3rd to 5th best app in that category

Wasm and JavaScript remain closely linked, yet Wasm is very much about other things in addition to JavaScript.

Whether we’re excited or worried about ChatGPT, there’s a way to approach AI technology that can truly shift the way developers build and ship code.

Automation can alleviate the complexities of configuring multiple Kubernetes parameters, optimizing the tradeoff between performance and cost.

Even though Europe strongly advocates an open and global internet, its policies actually contribute to fragmentation. It is time for Europe to decide whether it wants to be a catalyst for positive change or work towards a more fragmented internet.

Fracturing DNS! Incompatible Internet Protocols! Filters and walled gardens galore! The internet is being torn asunder by meddling governments and greedy corporations, a EU researcher warns.

Verica has released the results of its Second Annual Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) Report.

It boils down to three big hurdles: the wrong data in the wrong infrastructure at the wrong time.

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