It's great that you've got so much new household hardware connected to the internet. Especially for the CIA, whose director wants to spy on you through it.

This piece by Cory Doctorow on TikTok's enshittification (also available at Wired) contains some of the best and simplest descript

Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep.

Simply cutting your cloud costs may not be a good long-term strategy. It can lead to a decline in quality, limit your ability to scale, and stifle innovation. The real question you should be asking is how cost-efficient your infrastructure is.

Sometimes things go bad, that’s how it is. Regardless of how much effort we put into preventing it. And when they do, it’s crucial to be…

Posted on Thursday 26 Jan 2023. 1,423 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

With tests, we can prove that our software works correctly. But how do we define ‘correct’ in software testing?

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Earlier today, I read something that led to the question” do we even need to organize the blogs in the reverse chronological stream? Ben Werdmuller, frustra…

Good API trends can linger on for some time, but as with the decline of monolith, many love to anticipate the death of microservices through strangulation by its own distributed weight. While event-driven, circuit-breakers, GraphQL, and other leading patterns will continue to help us orchestrate successfully across this chaos, there are some other elements of our API operations that will be shaping what the API landscape looks like in the coming years.

As I work to rebuild my social presence via Mastodon, I am reminded of how I built API Evangelist using Twitter and my blogs between 2010 and 2020. I am very invested in API platforms these days, and API blah blah blah that will attract the attention of enterprise organizations. So I tend to tell stories about things like API collaboration, automation, and governance, and things that API producers care about. As I do the work each week to slowly build my Mastodon community for my API Evangelist presence, I am reminded that most people do not care about the producer side of things, and what really matters to business and technical readers is always about consuming APIs. Telling stories about using APIs is how I built API Evangelist in the early days, and it is how I’ll rebuild my social presence in the Fediverse.

Is Prompt Engineering the Career of the Future?

The Unison programming language doesn’t store code in files, but in a database. What is that like?

How your platform fits into your organization's practices, needs and culture is what's going to make the platform engineering team valuable.

It’s not magic, folks. It’s just code.

The future of fashion may be in AI disguises. While these flashy peices envoke a flair of the 90’s the inspiration is actually anonymity. Would you rather be perceived as a giraffe or a zebra…

The NYC subway system still struggles to build payment systems that work for everyone. And often, the tech often separates the haves and have-nots.

This is a short story about metadata (I have to assume at this point you can read). About why a data file or dataset on its own is inadequate for analysis or research, and therefore insufficient to draw conclusive evidence or make informed decisions. Why you should never publish data or make it available through an API without its documentation. And, being mindful that computer applications are the immediate data consumers, emphasize the importance of machine actionable metadata. Here is an example, amongst many, I like to use to illustrate these issues.

There are seven principal features DevOps and developer teams need to chart the development of next-generation databases.

The booming market for product solutions shows plenty of room for improvement

I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the eff…

The electric vehicle boom is bad news for Tesla.

Do humble developers exist?

Time series data can provide insight into ways to make energy production and consumption more cost-effective and efficient.