This story appeared in the April 2019 issue of Linux Journal. It’s still there, but with no photos (which seem to have vanished from much of the magazine’s archives).* I think both the …

It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and you need to start somewhere. With the Cheap Yellow Display (…

Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and rec…

J. B. Crawford writes on the Computers Are Bad newsletter about the IrDA infrared data standard used in older devices to communicate. In 1993, Hewlett-Packard hosted an industry meeting that kicked…

A crew lives on a station in a hostile environment. Leaving that environment requires oxygen tanks and specialized gear to deal with pressure differentials. A space station? Nah. A base built on th…

One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and eliminate human-to-human handoffs as much as possible. Lately, every time I perform a recurring task–or see someone else perform one–I think about how we might eliminate the human’s involvement entirely by introducing agents. This both has worked well, but also worked poorly, and I wanted to highlight the pattern I’ve found useful.

Opinion: Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

In case you’re unaware, I’m not a developer. I’m actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the scenes, and apparently that makes me more aware of social aspects of this sphere. So, I have opinions about criticism of crates.io for supply-chain attacks. After a dozen similar articles, I have some select words to voice about why it’s off the mark.

Three years ago I published a high fantasy map of technical writing. The world has moved quite a bit since then. AI happened, and with it a darkness has crept in from the north, one that feeds on the daily pessimism of writers that feel cornered. I felt like an update was long overdue, so I sat down, fired up an editor and created a new version. It’s a map of contested territory, and we’re still on it, waiting for someone to check the advance of natural stupidity. Can you find yourself in it?

The UTR is a small, portable router that you can take anywhere with you. It fits in your pocket. It supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and can

On Version History: The phone almost everybody had.

Teams running Kubernetes can usually see where they’re overprovisioned. Requests are higher than they need to be, there’s consistent headroom, and capacity

Microsoft field engineers built a six-agent research pipeline in VS Code that fact-checks its own output against live source code.

Meta's semi-formal reasoning enables AI agents to verify code without executing it, achieving 93% accuracy.

Shared staging environments are cracking under the pressure of AI-driven development. Arjun Iyer discusses what needs to replace them.

Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.

Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3…

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer w…

It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the turn of the twentiet…

In the past decades, software engineering teams are faced with a phenomenon who’s challenges are becoming more and more pressing: They’re…

Farewell, Anthropocene, we hardly knew ye. 🌹AI is here. It's won. Yes, it's in that awkward teenage phase where it still says inappropriate things, dresses

"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."

One in 10 parking fines issued as a result of scans made by cars using automatic number plate recognition systems is unjustified, privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) has calculated. The cars are equipped with special cameras which can check parked cars more efficiently than inspectors on foot, making them an attractive alternative for local councils. The cars tot up between 250 million and 375 million scans a year, resulting in three to five million fines. In 500,000, or 10%, of...

An appreciation post for something so simple, yet so wonderful to use

For all the noise around developer tools, API tooling has not really changed that much in the last ten years. Most of it still follows the same basic pattern...

In 1972, IBM separated values with commas. No specification. No committee. Fifty-three years later, 60% of enterprises still use it.

Celebrating 50 years of Apple: a look back at innovation, the rise of the iPhone, and the engineers behind the magic.

I don't feel that these performative actions have resulted in any real productivity gains. I realize now, that this is because I was focusing on the wrong thing.