Here is a question for you. What is more difficult: predicting the weather thirty days out or what global AI infrastructure spending will be out to the

Most dev teams don't need 47 dashboards or petabytes of logs—they need answers at 2 AM. Explore the evolution from APM to observability.

: When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors

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The screens we've installed everywhere have started to turn against us.

To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what…

In this episode of Version History, the fight to win the music wars.

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Why organizations must evaluate values, not just features

Returning from vacation turns into a tech horror story: an empty data center database, looming deadlines, and how Replay saved the day.

When code stops being written by humans, does beauty still matter?

The evolution of workload identity: Kerberos to X.509 to SPIFFE to TWI. Why credentials should expire faster than your containers run.

Navigating the messy adoption of AI tools that promise creative freedom but demand new skills

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Every weekend, my good buddy Hiten Shah and I head to The Coffee Movement’s Balboa Street location. They make a nice pour-over. And while it’s about a half-hour&n…

I stumbled on Jen Briselli’s work the other day. She’s a fantastic writer and communicator, distilling the complexity work that we both know and love and making it approachable and unde…

How to build competitive advantage with agentic AI by evolving systems step by step, balancing risk, and designing for agility.

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker for that last one: [jns], and h…

Automation is no longer a distant idea reserved for large corporations, but it is reshaping daily operations across industries of every size. Tasks once performed manually are increasingly managed by software, algorithms and machines that can process data and complete functions with unmatched speed. Gregory Hold, CEO and founder of Hold Brothers Capital, underscores that

Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.

While many of us chase the latest tech trends, innovative builders in Sub-Saharan Africa are leveraging a nearly 30-year-old messaging protocol to process hundreds of billions in transactions annually, reminding us that the best technology isn't always the shiniest, it's what actually solves customer problems.

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Immersive-experience designer/engineer Ed Lantz introduces the archetype of the technoshaman – one who uses the power of XR (extended reality, combining augmented, mixed, and virtual reality) technologies to craft multisensory digital worlds and experiences that elevate and harmonize human consciousness on a mass scale.  

AI can write code, but it can’t build real software. Software engineering remains human work because AI can code, not engineer.

A prominent analyst has spent the past 30 years suggesting the Web was not long for this world. It keeps proving him wrong.

I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here’s the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.

The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first

It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that brought 32-bit computing to the masses and left behind …

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched…

As a Hackaday writer, I see a lot of web pages, social media posts, videos, and other tips as part of my feed. The  best ones I try to bring you here, assuming of course that one of my ever-vigilan…