Rust and Crystal Solutions for Base58.

With no team and a tight deadline, I knew I had to act fast. I started by getting into domain and looking for engineers to build backend…

Minimal Computing # ‘We use “minimal computing” to refer to computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors.’ GO:DH Minimal Computing group This section introduces you to minimal computing principles. Minimal computing is a set of principles and practices that aim to reduce both environmental impact and barriers to access and engagement. It offers an important set of thinking tools to make responsible, frugal, and nuanced digital decisions.

Finding the human in the machine.

Buzzy products like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 will have to turn a profit eventually.

ChatGPT ain’t Shakespeare, but it’s still a threat to humanity.

Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web

Already broke your new year resolution? No wonder! How can new year resolutions work when the new year is an arbitrary date created by a…

The Data Conundrum Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

A comprehensive look at the state of WebAssembly in 2022 and 2023, exploring its recent advancements, challenges, and future prospects. From a review of what happened in 2022 to predictions for 2023, this article offers valuable insights into the current and future state of this rapidly evolving technology

A study compares JavaScript and Wasm on runtime and energy efficiency. In real-world applications, WebAssembly shines.

Alphabet (Google's parent company) is reportedly looking to rein in X, a division of Google that sets “moonshots”(- i.e. big audacious projects

When it comes to optimization and implementing #CloudOps and #FinOps successfully, how can you get everyone on board? #cloudoptimization #DevOps

With all the advancements in software development, apps could be much better. Why aren't they?

The evolution of CI/CD has given us more than just faster software updates. New classes of tools provide better observability, security and more.

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has been rapidly transforming our world, affecting every industry and changing the way we live, work and…

Everything in this world seems to occur in cycles, with many patterns I’ve wrestled with years ago coming around again. In 2014, in the heart of the Oracle vs. Google, me and my partner in crime Steve Willmott created the API Commons and APIs.json to help us make sense of the sprawling API landscape we saw emerging. I’ll dive into what each of these projects were shortly, but in short, they are machine-readable open source standards for licensing and indexing APIs. I’ve kept both of these specs alive over the years, even giving APIs.json a makeover a couple of years back, and investing in potential version 2.0 or alternate forms of the API indexing standard. I haven’t done much beyond brainstorming when it comes to API Commons, for a variety of reasons I will attempt to address in this narrative.

The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or illustration and find the defects or errors. Given hard work by 1,000 trained people, it’…

Pondering the under-the-radar legacy of the TV cart on wheels, a simple object as known for its substitute-teacher value as its risk as a tip-over hazard.

Wasm will initially be judged on how efficiently it runs code, but it is the security of the component model that will decide its future.

Messi’s team may have recently won the world cup. However, his bigger victory might just be beating an egg at the game of Instagram. But more on that

A culture of documentation is vital if you want to move fast and break as few things as possible, so why are good docs so rare?