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How to decide between the two while designing software ?

Despite the latest and greatest Intel-derived computers having multi-core 64-bit processors and unimaginably fast peripherals, at heart they all still retain a compatibility that goes back  to the …

Intel died when mobile cost it its software differentiation; if the U.S. wants a domestic foundry, then it ought to leverage the need for AI chips to make an independent Intel foundry viable.

The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2024.

In this article, I engage in a conversation with ChatGPT to explore the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the pressing need to preserve our planet. We discuss the challenges of contact with other civilizations and the urgent actions required to combat climate change, pollution, and resource depletion.

Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a bundled, all-in-one platform anchors on the belief that build and security tooling is moving from customization to commodity. This is an exploratory, draft chapter for a book on engineering strategy that I’m brainstorming in #eng-strategy-book. As such, some of the links go to other draft chapters, both published drafts and very early, unpublished drafts.

WayTools’ TextBlade brilliantly compressed a comfy typing experience into a pocket-sized device. Too bad it never actually reached the market.

Observability, so hot right now. Over the years, we’ve seen observability go from an unknown concept to a ubiquitous phrase that everyone is desperate to stamp...

I'm reading four books at the moment: Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics, Robin Wall Kimmerer's Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, and Sherry Turkle's Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. I'm always juggling more than

Interactive article about the Moon

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash I recently wrote about the future of the browser and Surf, a new app from the creators of Flipboard. Both stories explore the c…

Regular expressions are wondrous, but they’re ill-suited for many tasks; parsers are often more reliable.

How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life

With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the

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Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that used to be the way, before smart engineers …

Recently there was a bit of a panic in the media regarding a very common item in kitchens all around the world: black plastic utensils used for flipping, scooping and otherwise handling our food wh…

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has …

When it comes to aviation curiosities, few machines captivate the imagination like the Fairey Rotodyne. This British hybrid aircraft was a daring attempt to combine helicopter and fixed-wing effici…

The cable car system of San Francisco is the last manually operated cable car system in the world, with three of the original twenty-three lines still operating today. With these systems being inst…

In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushio…

Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good quality r…

Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to hel…

Cloud repatriation might seem like a solution for high infrastructure costs, but it can prove short-sighted as an organization scales.

AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle didn’t start out being so similar, but they’ve evolved and converged over time. Why, and what does that mean for you?

By Om MalikMike McCue, the founder of Flipboard, loves the media. He loves reading, watching, and immersing himself in what other Silicon Valley types...

Nature - All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI