A few days ago I came across a blog post, by Valentina Cupać, titled “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”. The title itself was enough to irritate me. What do you mean? That’s been an…

Did the “creative class” learn anything from buying into a product that was obviously destined to flop?

The streaming service provider made waves when its engineers reported they had refactored their QoS monitor for a monolithic architecture. Microservices experts evaluating the details discovered they actually did just the opposite.

The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outs...

Watching the old web die a painful death as something new is being born from the ashes.

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of comparisons between internet institutions – particularly various social media things – and premodern political forms and figures.

When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…

Technical deep-dive on why you shouldn't have SVGs in your JS bundle and better techniques for JSX usage.

More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

Reviews based purely on the feel of the knob

I can’t believe I never blogged about KnobFeel during its lifespan (the site hasn’t been updated in a long time) but the archives are a delight: reviews, replete with videos, of the kno…

There’s a high-end grocer in a very expensive neighborhood of New York–and they focus all of their energy on Italian food. Everything is imported, and they spend a lot of time and money…

Over the years I've accumulated a bunch of digital assets, and while most of those are things that I can keep using (effectively) forever, some of them keep costing me money whether I'm using them or not. A big category for me (and maybe you if you're anything like me)

Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash There must be something to this whole notion that “time flies!” I distinctly remember writing a short essay about the incredible adaptability of the Ether…

Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction 11%–20% of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. The researchers behind the study therefore find that there are major gains to be achieved for society by rethinking the systems and involving users more in their development.

The Headless Way Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

Of course the network can be a filesystem - Xe's Blog

Updated: July 1, 2023. Readers, first of all, please accept my apologies for sharing a report whose results are not what they seemed to be.  Rudolf van der Berg emailed earlier this morning to shar…

Our latest set of glossary entries, on the nature of American culture, looks well beyond the stars and stripes. American culture is way too nuanced for that.

ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?

Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources?

AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.

The release of large language models has caught organizations off guard, and now many are playing catchup. Developers should be part of that.