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…

I started reading software blogs before I got my first programming job 20 years ago. At this point, I've read thousands of blog posts and essays, but a small handful stuck in my mind and changed the way I think about software.

Introduction

A sassy weblog written by Nick Heer with topics including technology and policy, Apple, Silicon Valley, and privacy.

One week later, the Olive ecosystem grows!

Context, not computation, is the real currency of intelligent systems

No.372 — What’s guiding our Regenerative Futures? ⊗ The way we think about the future needs to change ⊗ AlphaEarth tracks Earth’s changes ⊗ England’s ice-age ghost ponds

Ever wondered what actually happens when you run an SQL query? From parsing to execution, joins, and optimizations — here’s the full…

Microservices entered the lexicon of systems engineering a number of years ago, breaking up a system which might once have been delivered ...

Matt Biilmann Christensen CEO of Netlify, challenged developers to think about the next significant shift in software: Agent Experience (AX).

Thoughts on getting into modern-day gaming later in life after taking a very long break. (Warning: This is a very elder millennial post, leaning on geriatric.)

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

The productivity gains from AI tools are undeniable. Development teams are shipping faster, marketing campaigns are launching quicker, and deliverables are

This post takes a look at terminals, TTYs, and PTYs. We’ll cover how terminals work, how pseudo-terminals let programs like bash and vim interact with your keyboard, and how terminal emulators display text and styles. Along the way, you’ll see escape codes, line discipline, signals, and a simple Python example with Pyte to show what’s happening behind the scenes.

Learn how to hook up a light sensor to control the brightness of an LED based on ambient light. Now that's a quick circuit creation!

A recent Secret Service raid uncovers an insane network of SIM cards—along with the oddest piece of hardware I’ve ever seen. Here’s the deal with the SIM bank.

Dig in to the original goals of the Postgres academic project at UC Berkeley and how they shaped the Postgres we use today.

Tech leaders weigh in on vibe coding: What it is, what it’s not, and how to use it safely in production software.

Data from Australia confirms that the high cost of scalability and agility is forcing some enterprises to rethink their cloud strategies.

By: Molly Struve

How the drum machine, despite being a machine, proved just to have just enough heart to dominate the pop charts.

The quiet was unsettling. The lack of concrete things to do was stressful. Me and my wife had been fretting and flitting around the house for most of the day making sure everything was staged, that we had the various prints, checklists were ready, lots of bags and boxes were packed. The event wasn't even starting today, not even fully tomorrow. The quiet after intense preparation.

Ed Stack built Dick’s Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an empire of more than 800 stores and billions in sales. Along the way he nearly lost everything. Multiple times. This episode is the story of what he did, how he did it, and the lessons you can learn. Coming Soon: Apple Podcasts …

Open source software is often the unglamorous workhorse in your server rack, the silent operator in your stack, and the punk soul in your operations pipeline.  It's thoroughly tested and trusted for all the right reasons. But when your business depends on it, you still need a lifeline. "Having enterprise-grade