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.

In 1977, three new microcomputers appeared on the scene that broke free from the industry’s hobbyist roots: the Apple II, the Commodore PET, and the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80. Much later, in the 199…

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.

Finalist #12 in the Review Contest

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…

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.

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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 ...