One of the things that bothers me about how many people use their computers in the modern era is in how they feel like they need to baby them. I think a lot of people feel like they need to baby their phone more than they do. Apple introduced optimized

In the iconic 1990s TV series The X Files, David Duchovny’s FBI agent-paranormal investigator Fox Mulder has a poster on his office wall. It shows a flying saucer in flight, with the slogan &…

The evolution of programming languages can be likened to the journey of human evolution in several fascinating ways

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A client asked me: How does one scale software to handle 1 million websocket connections? At 1000k connections when every client sends only one message per 30 seconds you have to deal with 33333 websocket messages per second. Dealing with that many requests...

By Commands, I mean the Command pattern over the network (when the client sends commands and the server executes them using Invoker). Let’s…

Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz

In this article, we’ll explore cross-platform API compatibility, covering the challenges and best practices for creating APIs.

These hidden codebases reveal the past foundational state of modern computer technology

What is a programming language? That may sound like a dumb question, but it’s not. For some people, a programming language is a specification. It’s a boring document that’s a close sibling to the Terms & Conditions that you ignore and automatically accept. For others, a language is an implementation like a compiler or an interpreter. However, for the vast majority of people, a programming language is more than that. It’s the community.

Both stories are true. Scaling still works. OpenAI et al. still have oversold their promises.

Photo by john mishael Calimoso on Unsplash Given our ever-increasing digital lives, what I am about to say makes little sense — recently released numbers show that there might be a historic slowdow…

Why I chose to use WebAssembly for my analytics tool, and how it could change the future of application development.

Open source may shift and transform, but it’s as strong as ever — and likely to remain so for generations.

Broadcom research reveals that network teams experience increasing levels of network complexity, a shortage of skilled workers, and a lack of visibility into internet and cloud environments.

Learn how the OpenTelemetry community is collaborating to adopt OTel’s "events" construct as a way to effectively model mobile crashes.

Thoughts on the sudden surge of success Bluesky has seen this week—without a network-dampening algorithm in sight.

Some brand names become the de facto name for the generic product. Xerox, for example. Or Velcro. Teletype was a trademark, but it has come to mean just about any teleprinter communicating with ano…

“You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.

Examples of Postgres constraints using a schema and data requirements for a reservation system.

I recently saw a meme about async and await, and honestly, it hit home.

The more stressed the world’s water supplies become, the greater the likelihood that water costs will rise for the data center industry. This relationship is just starting to create compelling opportunities for investors.

This week’s thoughts are triggered by the graduation work of Lisa. And next to that some highlights from the tech societies and futures news.

Code is an asset, but each line is a liability. Let’s explain.

Attractors

A guide for your holiday season and beyond!

Con·tent (as an adjective) in a state of peaceful happiness. (as a noun) contents of a book, television program, or website, or even a container. Daylight saving time can play havoc on on…

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Custom URL Protocols integrate websites and desktop apps via unique identifiers in the Windows Registry