Cheap Tickets, one of the first big digital travel companies, has a hell of a corporate history—one with nothing to do with the internet.

Blogging pioneer Noah Grey on the march of technology, the old internet, and the social media landscape of today.

Chemistry is a good metaphor for how teams work—especially when times get tough, such as in the playoffs happening in the NBA right now. Think about it. Every element has a melting point: a tempera…

Web3 claims to be the only way to save us from commercial entities defining what we can see and what not. Yet, it does exactly this: It results in commercialized entities defining what we can see and what not. More on blockchain in the simple, humorous, yet thorough article «Hitchhiker's Guid

Ben and Cassidy chat with Ian Tien, CEO and cofounder, and Corey Hulen, CTO and cofounder of Mattermost, an open-source platform for developer collaboration.

Stephen Wolfram shares the behind-the-scenes process of his NKS book. From years of research to working with publishers, book design, getting the right photos and images, and printing and promotion.

Considering the tension between disposability and interchangeable parts, and how right to repair opponents are trying to have it both ways.

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We asked 9,500 creators which platforms they're on, how many followers they have, and their best tips to monetize their content!

For decades, the country's tech triumphs have disguised its seized-up digital systems.

A look at the Atlassian outage of April 2022, and what it stands to teach Site Reliability Engineers. A lot to unpack here.

I joined Google in early 2015 to work on the V8 team as one of the first authors of the WebAssembly specification. This is a partial story…

Apple announced it i discontinuing the iPod, and Google annoucned its new Pixel 6A smarthone will not have a headphone jack.

A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.

We can do better than writing HTML manually, but there are no developer-focused solutions.

Our experience implementing OpenTelemetry at Equinix Metal offers some valuable insights in both the technical and cultural realms.

Cable companies survived the great unbundling thanks to selling Internet service; they may be best place to make the bundle of the future.

When digital identity ceases to be a pain in the ass, we can thank Kim Cameron and his Seven Laws of Identity, which he wrote in 2004, formally published in early 2005, and gently explained and put…

When we want to visualize the relationship between two continuous variables, the go-to plot is the scatterplot. It’s a very intuitive visualization tool that allows us to directly look at the data…

If the intergalactic spacecrafts from our favorite sci-fi shows were to incorporate the core beliefs of Zero Trust when securing their critical systems, they would have successfully prevented a substantial amount of systems attacks and malfunctions.

Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more respect, a feeling of progress – and even if you care deeply about other things (your product, your users, etc), you can’t really avoid caring about promotion as well. This post talks a bit about the (well-known) issues with this type of culture, and suggests some alternatives for startups not looking to replicate it.

We launched Pebble on Kickstarter 10 years ago today! It was an amazing ride and I learned a lot from the experience. Story time…

Eric Migicovsky, a co-founder of the now-defunct smartwatch company, writing about why his company failed: I struggled over and over to define a strong long term vision for what Pebble as a company would accomplish. In some ways we were spoiled…when our Kickstarter in 2012 was super successful, we never had to go through the...

This twitter thread blew up on twitter yesterday and I thought I’d go over some of the author’s points in a longer format so we can clear…

What are engineers actually spending their time on? What do they want to do more of and less of? We surveyed 600 software engineers to find out.

A few ways cathode ray tubes were used that you might not have been aware of by simply watching the boob tube.

How do you share the wealth with your employees without going public? SAIC created an internal stock market that outperforms Wall Street.

KarTrak, an innovation originally built for the rail system, was quickly discarded by train operators. But without it, we wouldn’t have modern barcodes.

If you work with cloud technologies — whether that be developing, deploying, maintaining, or other roles — you know that there are not enough professionals in the market with these skills. Those who hire cloud professionals are likely even more acutely aware of this challenge. While it may seem surprising, cloud technology adoption is continuing […]