Technology Commentary

I suppose, most readers would not believe me if I write that already in the 80s the internet-like system was already working in France…

Ironically, weaker moderation policies would hurt free speech on Twitter because the voices of real users would be drowned out by malicious ones.

The industrial age prized these three attributes. We’ve all been indoctrinated into adopting them through our time in organized schooling, and it’s easy to imagine that the world still …

There are unforeseen speedbumps, missed connections and of course, a lot of luck. If you are in love with your authentic voice, you’re unlikely to change. One lesson from the 500 Songs podcas…

As I’ve written before, I do not think much of Mark Zuckerberg as a CEO. In the most charitable interpretation of the events of the last ten or so years, he has overseen a company grow from “catch up with what your friends are up to!” to a discordant social network experience where algorithms constantly attempt to trick you into doing stuff. It’s fair to say that Instagram and Facebook have become platforms that use their users, with your feed feeling like some sifting through cat litter for whatever nuggets of whatever it is you logged on to see, a thing that is becoming increasingly hard to remember.

It's even worse than it appears..

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Delivery startups don’t deliver — that is the gist of the big feature story on GoPuff, a delivery service that started selling hookahs and other smoking para…

For today's organizations, baking quality in early is the only way to ensure quality software and the role of testing must change.

Unlike the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve, Precision-Recall does not have a universal baseline of 0.5.

Writing an effective product spec is challenging in the age of distributed teams and async collaboration. Here’s how to create one that keeps everyone rowing in the same direction.

Mara Bos has written a lengthy blog post on whether the Rust language needs to be standardized. The answer is "no" — but she draws a distinction between a "standard" (maintained by some distant standards body) and a "specification".

Posted on 2022-10-24

After integrating both Stripe and Paypal I've come to the realization that they are nearly the same, including all the evil.

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer....

My last name is "Null," and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.

Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure!

Posted on Wednesday 26 Oct 2022. 1,206 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Last week a new GitHub Copilot investigation website created by Matthew Butterick brought the conversation about GitHub’s Copilot project back to the front of mind for many peop…

The basic mechanics of the bike are pretty simple — it’s basically a triangle with wheels and a chain drive to propel it forward. No batteries or engines. It seems obvious in hindsight …. And that’s why most people guess the bike was invented a long time ago. Yet the ‘running machine,’ a kind of

If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …

In this interview with Help Net Security, Oded Hareven, CEO at Akeyless, explains how organizations manage secrets.

It’s the first mile. Big tech likes to talk about the last mile problem–how to get a wire, a system or a concept from where the nodes are easy to plant to where people actually are. As …

It’s 2022. There’s no reason to use your grandparent’s keyboard any longer.

Here are examples of how this new organizational chart can function in the real world.

Scientists have been working on a new generation of computer chips that could simulate brain synapses. These chips could become a reality this decade.

A Nigthtmare called YML Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

This week, Gartner Inc. announced its top ten strategic technology trends for 2023 at their Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Gartner. The ten trends align with four major themes: optimize, scale, pioneer, sustainability.