Chris McCord, the creator of the Phoenix framework, says Elixir offers a better experience for the age of agentic AI than JavaScript does.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Why AI progress is real and most jobs are safe

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Explore practical approaches to access control in Elixir with real-world examples and how the Permit library applies ABAC, RBAC, and more.

[Tim] noticed recently that a large number of projects recreating discrete logic tend to do so with technology around 70 years old like resistor-transistor logic (RTL) or diode-transistor logic (DT…

Here’s a thought experiment that John Allspaw related to me, in paraphrased form (John tells me that he will eventually capture this in a blog post of his own, at which time I’ll put a …

AI and the successor to the old, Western worldview

It was one of those weeks last week at Hackaday’s home office. My mother-in-law handed me her favorite power bank and said “it’s not charging”. She had every expectation that I’ll open it up, desol…

Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 for replacing the very slow Mattel ECS BASIC for Intellivision.

The protocol is the API.

Why writing more comments makes you a better developer. Learn how AI-native teams use Comment Driven Development to ship maintainable code faster with AI coding agents.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

As AWS RDS costs grew, traconiq migrated to Neon to scale efficiently, taking advantage of branching and autoscaling.

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At Staff+, technical brilliance opens doors, but staying useful when the plan isn't yours is what keeps you in the room.

For years, subminiature vacuum tubes were looking like the future of electronics—until a key figure in their rise heard about something better.

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Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. From Atlantis, Avalon…

Tech like streaming media and digital photography has made accessing and sharing content a lot more convenient, but there's something to be said for

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one political...

by Erik Kuefler This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version ...

The customer is the victim, not the program.

When you go into a restaurant and you see a sign that says “No Dogs Allowed,” you might think that sign is purely proscriptive: Mr. Restaurant doesn’t like dogs around, so when he…