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Chris Lattner on Software Craftsmanship and AI

One of the principles in our upcoming book Architecture as Code is the ability for architects to design automated governance checks for important architectural

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Don’t get me wrong, I’m up all night

Co-Founder and Former Chief Scientist of OpenAI shares what’s been keeping him up at night

Learn the differences between metrics, logs, and traces - the three pillars of observability in distribut ed systems - and how to use them effectively

offensive security & software engineering

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

And why that might be a good thing

Lessons and tips learned while earning a Kaggle Competition Medal

At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

Oh man, what remarkable timing. I had a blog post scheduled to go up later today, in which I said some nice things about Dia, the Arc replacement from The Browser Company. I've been pretty salty towards The Browser Company for the past 18 months or so, but I was

For most enterprises, high-end GPUs are not as essential as the providers want you to think. Old GPUs or CPUs often deliver sufficient cloud AI performance at drastically reduced costs.

One of the things that makes legacy code legacy is that code, over time, rots. Some of that rot comes from the gradual accumulation of fixes, hacks, and kruft. But much of the rot also comes from the tooling going unsupported or entirely out of support. For example, many years ago, I worked in a Visual Basic 6 shop. The VB6 IDE went out of support in April, 2008, but we continued to use it well into the next decade. This made it challenging to support the existing software, as the IDE frequently broke in response to OS updates. Even when we started running it inside of a VM running an antique version of Windows 2000, we kept running into endless issues getting projects to compile and build.

I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen has the resolution to do it so I started this document t…

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.

Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?

Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed something a bit surprising. Apparently, in some parts of …

*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because…

EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way to eliminate JavaScript code on the client side as much as possible for basic and routine tasks. The biggest focus of this library is to offer the easiest way to perform **AJAX** operations just by using HTML. Also EHTML treat your HTML code code not only as a markup language but also as a templating language.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.

Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

The address that I use for this newsletter has long since been overrun by nonsense. Seemingly every PR and marketing firm in existence has gleefully ... Read more

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.