Technology Commentary

I have a real bee in my bonnet today, following a lunchtime conversation with an idiot who is convinced that the software industry.

We analyzed Digital Ocean to understand where its traffic comes from, how it grew so fast, and the marketing decisions made along the way.

Everything anyone could ever want to watch is probably streaming right now. Which services you choose depends on whether you’re a Walmart person or a Wawa.

One of the great duds of console gaming history.

Count 'em on one hand.

Here are four examples of how open source creates a more accessible environment for those on the neurodivergent spectrum.

A few months ago, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the “Global Freedom of Expression” program at Columbia University discussing decentralized social media and regulations aro…

Here is a look at six vital technology trends that have gained momentum in today’s hyper-digital world and that will shape the coming year.

To optimize business applications, DevOps teams must understand the full potential of microservices and event-driven architecture.

Supply chain security is critical for software to run well. Here are the top 5 supply chain security trends you should know.

We made significant improvements to the throughput of wireguard-go, which is the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. What this means for you: improved performance of the Tailscale client on Linux. We intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard as well.

A few tips on how to stay “surprisingly responsive” from a busy software architect.

Walled gardens can be great: we all like it when Stuff Just Works because a single company oversees all its elements. Walled gardens can be terrible: when all of our data, our social relations and our educational, romantic, professional and family ties are trapped inside a company’s silo and the...

From ChatGPT:

Let’s say you’re writing some front-end code. How many options are there for programming languages? I’d say there’s three camps. There’s plain old JavaScript, there’s languages that compile to WebAssembly, and there’s languages that compile to JavaScript. Plain old JavaScript requires the least tooling, at the cost of being rather frustrating to debug and even more annoying to read. It can be a great, low friction option to start, but beyond some obsession around “minimalism”1, I don’t see many benefits.

[By a professor, for students. As of August 2021, this post has been visited by more than 750,000 readers from at least 135 countries and te...

In an end of year email, Eike Schmidt the director of the Uffizi has directed employees to better observe rules of grammar and punctuation.

When imitations flood the market, the expert creativity that acted as a catalyst is diluted.

The C++ 2023 standard won't have an asynchronous algorithm feature called senders and receivers.

Maintaining a lot of APIs can heighten security risks and negatively affect productivity. Here's how to develop a clear API strategy and processes to avoid the downside. #APIsprawl #APImanagement

Co-authored by Carl Sverre from SingleStore What is a User-Defined Function? A User-Defined Function (UDF) encapsulates business logic in such a way that it can be safely run within another service's infrastructure. Historically, general purpose UDFs...

Can a website play with a mastodon?

I often find myself running into mysterious command line errors as I install different development dependencies over and over. Fortunately many commands have an option for verbose output that gives more insight.

Businesses in highly regulated sectors and those that operate in multiple countries are faced with a growing number of data privacy regulations.

I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.