Posted on Friday 25 Jul 2025. 697 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Introduction There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by t...

For teams invested in open source observability and search, OpenSearch v3 is a clear opportunity to take a big step forward.

The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge or consent. It’s both redundant and inconsistent. You have hundreds, maybe thousands, of fragmented digital profiles that often contain contradictory or logically impossible information. Each serves its own purpose, yet there is no central override and control to serve you—as the identity owner...

By now you've seen one of these: Note the small print in the lower right: "VRM by Admiral." By "VRM," Admiral means this: What we're looking at here is the $.5 billion Consent Management Platform business, currently dominated worldwide by OneTrust, with a 40% market share. In the US, Admiral is the leading provider to publishers, giving…

2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the death of Mario Tchou, the Olivetti engineer who designed the Elea 9003, the first Italian computer, who died in a car crash at […]

When I suggest that people will game whatever metrics we put in place, I’m often met with shocked indignation. We would never game the numbers! And yet we do.

Developers’ workflows are fragmented, knowledge is siloed and coordination work is eating away at the time saved by AI.

To support complex RAG workloads at scale, an AI search platform must do far more than basic keyword or vector matching.

GitLab launches its AI Agent Platform in public beta for DevSecOps teams, including multi-agent workflows and IDE integrations.

Discover why startups like Flarion, LakeSail, and major companies are betting on Apache DataFusion — the Rust-based query engine that's reshaping data analytics.

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving fo…

It hasn’t been that long since humans figured out how to create power grids that integrated multiple generators and consumers. Ever since AC won the battle of the currents, grid operators hav…

For a brief, buzzing moment in 1983, the Coleco Adam looked like it might out-64 the Commodore 64. Announced with lots of ambition, this 8-bit marvel promised a complete computing package: a keyboa…

Cool trick demonstrating the illusion of an SVG drawing itself, ironically displayed here as a .gif Dive into the wonderful world of Scalable Vector Graphics with this introduction from Josh W. Com…

More from the annals of disappearing knowledge. Chris Lysy offers an incredibly detailed analysis of how evaluation resources on the web have become impossible to find. (He also has a solution for …

The first draft of my "Full-breadth Developers" post included a throwaway line like "Forget 10x developers; think 100x" but then I came to my senses and deleted it. https://www.businessinsider.com/surge-ceo-ai-100x-engineers-2025-7

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

A step-by-step guide to building your own database server. Learn about SQL and improve your programming skills.

Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils

Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.

In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing…

XMLUI brings a fresh, declarative approach to building web interfaces using native, composable components—no heavy frameworks required. It's a promising path toward giving Picos the ability to serve their own UIs again, natively and autonomously.

We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that that’s all because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them for piracy. must feel the s…

The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.

A Journey Through Complexity Toward Hope Beneath the Chaos

The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.