Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer. I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller sent in

From punk rock to adult contemporary. (And back again?)

Decades after some predicted its demise, the mainframe is as vital as ever, even in the era of AI.

When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access…

GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more.

Adam Osborne was the master of momentum—until it all came crashing down

How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away

The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern

Put simply, if data access is slowing down your application, the only solution is a faster database, not a cache.

Knowing Machines is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.

Do you really need that cloud hosting package? If you’re just running a website — no matter whether large or very large — you probably don’t and should settle for basic host…

How to read what multiple people mean by the word openness and see through the PR speak.

We will begin labeling a wider range of video, audio and image content as "Made with AI" when we detect industry standard AI image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content.

How Silicon Valley’s Race for Monopoly Inhibits Product-Market Fit

Posted on Friday 29 Mar 2024. 1,320 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Back in the 1970s, Rockwell had an ad that proudly proclaimed: “The best electronic brains are still human.” They weren’t wrong. Computers are great and amazing, but — for n…

Some Thoughts about Software Quality

An important key to performing accurate and successful SPICE simulation is to use high quality SPICE models. Learn how to use these models in Multisim.

If you’ve ever worked on a large project — your own or a group effort — you know it can be difficult to find exactly where you want to be in the source code. Sure, you can use cta…

Every few years, it seems, we’re reminded of the incredible number of dependencies built into the software we all rely on. Remember kik? Or Chef Sugar? Or any number of similar situations? The xkcd…

This post announces Chapel 2.0, including a brief tour of what the language is capable of.

Updates April 7th, 2024 I received an email from Marc Rochkind. He recounts some details of the creation of SCCS. I attached the email at the end of the article and made corrections inside the article. Most importantly, check out Marc’s original paper. Thank you all for the kind comments and interesting discussion Hacker News and Lobste.rs. HN Thread and lobste.rs thread. A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS Source Control Management (SCM) Systems, have a long and rich history.

Testing is almost universal in software development, yet it’s common to treat it like a chore, or an after thought. Sure, test-driven development (TDD) is a means to influence what the public interface should look like by having the developer pretend the class already exists, and then implementing it to make the tests pass… but how often is TDD applied? And how often is it applied consistently? What’s the magic test-coverage percentage that you (or your lead) are satisfied with, and why that number, in particular? What the heck is “shifting left”, and how religiously shoud you stick to the test pyramid? Can automated testing happen in production?