Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

A brief history of hypertext and Urbit networking

As more DAOs, NFT and digital communities find their way to Urbit, others are likely to follow their paths, making them their own, just like the network itself.

Team Topologies cofounder Matthew Skelton presents a new concept of continuous stewardship to address generating code for the long term.

Kubernetes is the heart of the AI revolution, allowing both legacy VMs and new AI applications to exist in a cohesive environment.

The security of your software is directly impacted by the dependencies you choose.

The natural evolution of any software market is a small number of leaders.

Kubernetes security is notoriously complicated, but open source Nimbus aims to simplify it with automation rather than policies and tools.

The dedicated cloud is about keeping control of your data and your architecture and giving yourself options, including freedom to change your mind.

By layering rate-limiting policies in an API gateway that acts conditionally based on request data, you have an opportunity to enrich your API ecosystem.

Signature Plastics is continuing on under new ownership.

For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we had the convenience of expression o…

It takes but an ill-fated second to break a bone, and several long weeks for it to heal in a cast. And even if you have one of those newfangled fiberglass casts, you still can’t get the thing…

World’s first espresso machine designed for DIY enthusiasts and coffee lovers. Build your own espresso machine and configure it with our open source software

Want to build your own espresso machine, complete with open-source software to drive it? The diyPresso might be right up your alley. It might not be the cheapest road to obtaining an espresso machi…

The e-paper “dashboard” is something we’ve seen plenty of times here at Hackaday. Use it to show your daily schedule, the news, weather, maybe the latest posts from your favorite …

QR codes are used just about everywhere now, for checking into venues, ordering food, or just plain old advertising. But what about data storage? It’s hardly efficient, but if you want to sto…

We should all be familiar with QR codes, those blocky printed patterns containing encoded text, URLs, or other data. A few years ago they were subject to their own cloud of hype, but now they have …

Recently [mit41301] wondered about increasing the data capacity of QR codes, and was able to successfully triple the number of bits using color. He chose the new rectangular micro QR code (rMQR) st…

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using th…

A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time (or rather, lack thereof). Collecting data has been super helpful…

What you need to learn to partner with generative AI

The start of my cyberpunk jacket project.

A brief intergenerational pause...

Be smart about introducing programmers to customers, but do it!

I'm working on a conference talk and there won't be time for me to detail each and every piece of advice I've accrued for each technical topic, so I'm going to…

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

I keep coming across discussions around how we get more API product managers involved in the API lifecycle, and one thing that keeps coming up involves the creation of tooling that is accessible to these business stakeholders. I agree, I’d been investing a lot in getting product managers to work with YAML and GitHub, and keep asking what other tools they use, but the conversation always seems to go back to building something new to make APIs accessible to stakeholders, but I am always skeptical when we speak of new technical solutions rather than using the ones we already have.

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