Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

Whenever there is a large manufacturer of a popular product in the tech space, they always attract tales of near-mythical prototypes which would have changed everything on the spot had they just no…

Push notifications should be a privilege, not a right.

I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptop...

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The AI iPhone isn’t here yet — but is this the AI iPod era?

It's just a fad

They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was that the Vision Pro would swap in for

Substack is speedrunning the enshittification curve. “This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to transition

Back in 2000 in the brief lull between COVID lockdowns in the UK, I found myself abruptly on the move, with a very short time indeed to move my possessions into storage. As I was going through the …

One of the guiding Postgres design principles is heavy reliance on features provided by the environment (particularly operating system) and file systems are a prime example of this. Unlike other databases Postgres never supported raw devices that would require implementing a “custom” file system.

IPv6 has been in the works since 1998 to address the shortfall of IP addresses available under Ipv4, yet despite its efficiency and security advantages, adoption is still slow.

Multi-protocol label switching is reliable but expensive, leading enterprises to supplement it with cheaper and more flexible SD-WAN.

Remember the Danger Hiptop?

No.304 — Everything is interesting ⊗ City scanning ⊗ Nvidia 2024 AI Event ⊗ Speaking without vocal cords

Xz Utils gets nailed by a supply-chain attack almost exactly a decade after Heartbleed highlighted similar structural weaknesses in the FOSS ecosystem.

A mysterious contributor who planted the backdoor helped maintain the widely used xz compression library for the past two years. So what else was hidden in there?

Untangle the foundational terminology and concepts of vector search so you can implement the right solution for your needs.

AI coding tools automate so many tasks that developers are likely to discover that some of the skills they’ve acquired will no longer be needed.

With the rapid growth in vectorized datasets, production-grade vector search technology is racing to keep up. Here’s the latest.

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Posted on Wednesday 20 Mar 2024. 2,867 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

On March 7, 2024, tailscale.com was unavailable for approximately 90 minutes due to an expired TLS certificate. We were able to identify and address the issue quickly, and the downtime was mostly limited to our marketing materials and documentation; still, we would like to explain exactly what happened, what the impact was, and what steps we’ve taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

A discussion came up on the Hackaday Discord PCB design channel about resistor networks, and it got me thinking about whether we (the hacker community) use them in designs or not. These handy devic…

How GitHub became a version control monopoly

SASE protects users regardless of location through zero-trust network access (ZTNA), an access control method that provides access via continuous, session-based identification and authentication.