Created by Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Unlearning Language is an interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.

Software design is truly an exercise in human relationships

Do I need Kubernetes? - Xe's Blog

Active Record restates the traditional question of how to separate persistence from domain logic: what if you don’t have to?

What if the platform rose to this occasion?

Fool me twice, we don’t get fooled again.

I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.

The definition of serverless is changing and nobody seems to agree on what it actually is

ChatGPT FOMO Antidote: I read all the tweets so you don't have to

America’s rapture over ultra-rich founders dates to the founders. But this latest generation hasn’t earned it.

There’s a lot of discussion of Twitter recently, and I don’t mean to add to that, but this article in MIT Technology Review exemplifies what I call “open source magical thinking”: a series of belie…

Easy short term creates a harder long term

Wow. What a month. November is not typically this eventful, but sometimes a little spice is exactly what the Doctor ordered. LDN being introduced to the number 3, macOS meeting a graphically demanding program, and Ryujinx facing its final adversary… the cardinal direction, North! All-in-all we’ve had a busy

Is art without soul really art? A new generation of AI-based content generators are putting this existential question to the test.

History rhymes. Federation, identity issues, and a hostile takeover. IRC was the communication platform of choice from the 90s until around 2000 when AIM took over. Around 2010, Freenode emerged as the go-to for the open-source crowd and then grew over the next decade to become the home for many software developers, DevOps professionals, and hobbyists. I’m thankful for the graduate math students that took the time to help me with my high school calculus on ##math. The events leading to the fal

Our platform offers code snippets for all backend functionalities in over 30 languages

“We built something pretty close to the right thing.”

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

And How to Fix Them

Eventually, the disadvantages of sharing your opinion online will become so great that people will turn away from the internet. This is the argument made by Geert Lovink, Professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS) and University of Amsterdam in his new essay Extinction Internet. While Lovink's previous research focused on critical counterculture and possible alternatives, such as fairer social media platforms, he now sketches a future in which the internet (partially) disappears and we are forced to give up our tech addiction.

How the learning curve of a developer can be correlated to the scalability of a startup.

If you want reach and engagement, optimizing for small screens is usually the way to go. There are more mobile devices in the world than we can count, and large numbers of people spend their days c…

The internet doesn’t have to be this way. It seems like the structure we live with and struggle with and sometimes work against is pre-ordained and obvious, but much of it is the result of th…

Our industry deserves a complete retrospective into the incidents behind the criminal case against Uber’s former Chief Security Officer.

By Alex Willemyns Two of China’s biggest chipmakers, Yangtze Memory Technologies and Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment, are among 36 Chinese companies effectively banned from importing component…

how developers should organize ourselves to do our best work.