Technology Commentary

The most important takeaway from Google’s Pixel event is that it is Android that matters most, and Google’s integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovati…

CrowdStrike has released their final (sigh) External Root Cause Analysis doc. The writeup contains some more data on the specific failure mode. I’m not going to summarize it here, mostly beca…

When I visited the Palouse earlier this month, I spent a lot of time driving around the backroads, traveling through many small towns and communities. These towns were no bigger than a few hundred …

Posted on Friday 9 Aug 2024. 1,415 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week I’m unable to hold back. An apparent breach of a data aggregator has resulted in a monster dataset of US, UK, and Canadi…

Programmers should be paranoid.

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Continuing the theme of my post from over the weekend, here is some more on generative models and the simulations of attentiveness, intimacy, or friendship they are purported to provide.

Hackaday’s own [Arya Voronova] has been on a multi-year kick to make technology more personal by making it herself, and has just now started writing about it. Her main point rings especially true i…

Apple, Meta, and Nvidia all agree — synthetic data, iterative training, human preference labels, and lots of filtering.

A Fortune 50 CTO evaluates the pros and cons of OpenAPI and GraphQL API standards, and their relevance to data governance.

Vermont is a leader in beautiful scenery, progressive politics, and now, respectful online discourse, thanks to Front Porch Forum.

Conor Barber explores the evolution of infrastructure, focusing on the shift from YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code, covering modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab, and CircleCI. This talk was recorded at QCon San Francisco 2023.

How Jose Javier Moya's motorcycle analogy reveals the secrets of building a successful software deployment process.

How come people never worry about whether technology scales down to a low number?

Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local library

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

The World Wide Web is extraordinarily wide. But exactly how many domains are there? Let's take a closer look at domain statistics for 2021.

It took $70 and 24 hours for Ryan Castellucci to gain access to 200 MW of capacity.

Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.

When I was new to what would become the Internet, most "public" online places were organized by general topic -- for example, the SF-Lovers mailing…

We need more of Richard Stallman, not less par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

So I have been wanting to write up and talk about this for a while, I feel the need to talk about this because too much content is getting removed or kicked off of other platforms due to provider policy changes. By this I mean creators I...

In July, Netlify partnered with Astro and added a cache primitive and a new API. It’s all to make the frontend simpler for web developers.

While RAG adds significant benefits by enhancing the specialization and accuracy of generative AI apps, it also brings a set of complex challenges.

Observability and monitoring are complementary rather than alternatives. Monitoring is a vigilant guard while observability is a thoughtful analyst.

Even in the IT industry of tomorrow, human creativity and domain expertise will still be required, as AI-generated code needs human overseers to ensure correctness.