I’ve been pondering something for a while now, but have held off “thinking out loud” about it because I was worried I might sound like a guy yelling at the kids to get off his law…

The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? [Ian Bogost] …

I have been on the phone a lot today—talking to Katie Fehrenbacher, Stacey Higginbotham, and Chris Albrecht. Surj Patel popped into town, and we had coffee. Call it kismet—…

If Bluesky were to disappear or be bought by a billionaire, their open protocol wouldn't help users replace it.

Clear, consistent semantic conventions for telemetry signals unlocks more sophisticated approaches to observability across the open source ecosystem.

IaC's scope has evolved far beyond simple automation, with implications that are reshaping how organizations manage their full IT infrastructure.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a bridging technology for AI agents and APIs. We speak with API management vendor Speakeasy about its uses.

Testing is a tough skill to master. Learn how Jim Weirich's necessary and sufficient rule can guide you to better test design and avoid common test smells.

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How Jack Tramiel's Commodore invented the mass market computer

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Companies like Amazon and Apple do business in so many spaces that the cracks really show. Hence why Apple Intelligence looks like a hot mess right now.

Unicode's private use areas are used for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from coroporate logos to fictional languages. Example of Tolkein's Tengwar.

I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding...

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Brandon Tauszik, a fellow at The Starling Lab, is developing a low-cost way for journalists to preserve their work

There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of interesting use cases, and as with any mesh network, the more nodes the…

[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most…

In the early 2000s, the idea that you could write programs on microcontrollers that did things in the physical world, like run motors or light up LEDs, was kind of new. At the time, most people tho…

A list of questions you need to ask about potential AI solutions, to know if they're going to work well for you and what kind of surprises they'll create.

Standards for ANSI escape codes

The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of a flop and was discontinued because of it, despi…

The AI industry is more exciting than ever, but the chip situation is very precarious and requires drastic action.

Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.

Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today,

If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun Microsystems planned for it in the mid-1990s. Back then it was key to a bright coffe…