HPA-managed workloads: Why the obvious waste stays
Teams running Kubernetes can usually see where they’re overprovisioned. Requests are higher than they need to be, there’s consistent headroom, and capacity
Anos – a modern operating system for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines
Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3…
How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer w…
AI For The Skeptics: Pick Your Reasons To Be Excited
It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the turn of the twentiet…
Farewell, Anthropocene, we hardly knew ye. 🌹AI is here. It's won. Yes, it's in that awkward teenage phase where it still says inappropriate things, dresses
"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."
Technology gets parking fines wrong in one in 10 cases - DutchNews.nl
One in 10 parking fines issued as a result of scans made by cars using automatic number plate recognition systems is unjustified, privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) has calculated. The cars are equipped with special cameras which can check parked cars more efficiently than inspectors on foot, making them an attractive alternative for local councils. The cars tot up between 250 million and 375 million scans a year, resulting in three to five million fines. In 500,000, or 10%, of...
For all the noise around developer tools, API tooling has not really changed that much in the last ten years. Most of it still follows the same basic pattern...
I don't feel that these performative actions have resulted in any real productivity gains. I realize now, that this is because I was focusing on the wrong thing.
What is Digital Garage and why this place exists
This cyber corner was inspired by my grandfathers both of whom were capable of building things from scrat...
A friend recently told me, “(Her) Blog feels like home.” I couldn’t agree more. That led me to think of analogies for social platforms and websites in terms of how much power and freedom they actually give you over your content. If we think of what you put out on the internet in terms of physical places, this is what they are like.
What does it actually mean to build a better web, and what do we owe each other in doing so? A response to the 32-bit Café thread about trust, onboarding, and the distance between knowing something is wrong and doing something about it.
Model Flop Utilization is the metric Aria Networks says will define the AI infrastructure era
Aria Networks launches "Network that Thinks" initiative to optimize AI cluster performance through Model Flop Utilization, SONiC, telemetry, and AI agents.
I spend a lot of time engaged in the craft of writing – I’ve penned more than 1.5 million words on Searchblog alone. Writing anchors nearly all my projects, from teaching at univ…
The open web is under pressure from AI companies and large platforms, but its troubles did not start with AI. We also chose convenience over control, and we will have to change that if we want a better web.