Swallowing the spatio-temporal vortex of high volume transactions in the 21st century

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that …

Raw network sockets are a curious beasts, as unless you have a strong urge to implement your own low-level network protocol, it’s a topic that is probably best left to the (well-paid) experts…

Fixing problems that shouldn't exist

Can you take the lead in your interactions with businesses instead of just accepting terms? That's not just possible but necessary. Join us as Doc, a driving force behind Project VRM, shares his insights on reshaping digital landscapes to empower individuals and foster genuine customer-business re

The rumor mill is picking up steam that Intel might become the target of a takeover by Qualcomm. That feels game-changing and dramatic, doesn’t it?

The original Kodak camera changed photography forever.

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.

Introduction

As an independent AI researcher, I’ve spent countless hours working with large language models, particularly those boasting 70 billion…

Paid subscribers to Second Breakfast learned on Monday that I'm toying with writing another book. And surprise surprise, it'll explore artificial intelligence, teaching, and learning – the long history of "intelligent tutoring systems," sure, but more of a series of provocations about philosophy, science, and popular culture – the kind of stuff

Powerpipe dashboards can now connect not only to Steampipe but also to SQLite and DuckDB. This creates a combinatorial explosion of possibilities, including dashboards that use SQL to visualize lar…

This article explores how autonomous agents are revolutionising dynamic scaling in API integrations.

you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike

Read how we’re scaling PostgreSQL at the petabyte scale to power our query monitoring feature, Insights.

Learn how Airbyte leverages the low-code CDK and the Connector Builder to build and maintain hundreds of API connectors efficiently.

First published June 2017.

There are people who believe that Max Headroom, the character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the animators Rocky Mo…

Haiku is a spiritual successor to BeOS, with a focus on a clean and user-friendly design paired with low system requirements. After about a year and a half since the last beta, Haiku R1/beta5 has b…

The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but that hasn’t stopped there being a lively hacking scene in the world of analogue telephones. Often …

If you cut your teeth on Z-80 assembly and have dabbled in other assembly languages, you might not find much mystery in creating programs using the next best thing to machine code. However, if you …

A short quick holiday edition of the weekly newsletter. With some thoughts on the latest in boosted humanity.

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.