Why Frameworks Fail
Why are digital documents greener than paper documents?
Regex Isn't Hard - Tim Kellogg
Threads and the Social/Communications Map
Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.
Paper Notes: MapReduce – Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters – Distributed Computing Musings
DevOps Has Won, Long Live the Platform Engineer
In another sign of Kubernetes maturity, platform engineering teams are bringing the self-service cloud operating model to users.
A Lifelong ‘Maker’ Tackles a Developer Onboarding Problem
Shanea Leven, CEO of CodeSee, shares how her creative streak motivated her to solve a common legacy code problem in this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey.
The looming demise of the 10x developer
Tech's most contentious debates end with people talking over each other, but they make way more sense viewed through the lens of inter-generational conflict.
The befuddling “Bluesky is killing it, no one uses Mastodon” narrative
Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App
But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand
When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies
Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colle…
Red Hat and the Clone Wars V: Oracle Linux Origins: Dissociated Press
Since Oracle has weighed in about Red Hat’s source changes, it’s time to take a look at the history of Oracle Linux. That takes us back to 2006, the world of enterprise computing, and i…
What's Holding up WebAssembly's Adoption?
WebAssembly trajectory reflects similar cycles that happen with technologies, such as Java, containers. But when will it be ready for the enterprise?
Hey managers – this is why we don’t believe you when you say that you “care about quality”
Let’s start this with a short exercise:Think of all the places you’ve worked at, where you heard “we care about code quality”, “we’re willing to invest the time …
Red Hat kicked off a tempest in a teapot
The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.
33 Bits of Entropy
The End of Anonymized Data and What to Do About It
RSS for Post-Twitter News and Web Monitoring
With Twitter’s stability looking less and less assured, and other social networks making decisions so unpopular as to cause overt user rebellion, many Web users are wondering how they are goi…
API Gateway Vs GRPC Gateway
In this article, I will compare API Gateway with GRPC Gateway.
CUPID - for joyful code
AI in Sports: Using ML to Spot Online Harassment of Athletes
In the world of spectator sports, AI already has an important job: hiding, and reporting abusive comments made on the social media feeds of athletes.
Towards Technical CEOs
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
My Kind of REPL
I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software. And I mean that in the literal sense: it’s changed the way that I write software; it’s re-shaped my development workflow.
The idea is this: you can write programs that modify themselves.
And I don’t mean macros or metaprogramming or anything fancy like that. I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.
Is It Worth the Time?
Why use Pascal? | Castle Game Engine
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
Tango (platform) - Wikipedia
It's 2023. Your API should have a schema
Here's a story you might find relatable. We kicked off a new integration project that started 3 months later than everyone wanted. APIs just shipped after a bunch of delays. We were handed API docs and a test environment and started work building out the new feature. The documentation was
ActivityPub, Decentralization - Do Users Care?
Paper Notes: The Google File System – Distributed Computing Musings
Syndication and Organization
I tag blog posts rather erratically, and keep meaning to go back and systematically taxonomize my thousands of past posts. One thing that my new blogging platform includes is another way to highlight particular posts … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Facebook's Threads is so depressing
Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport