As someone who has worked in software since 2001, and in the Cloud Native (containerisation and Kubernetes) space since 2013, I’m getting old enough to have seen trends come and go a few time…

Will this wave of mundane intelligence change our app model? And other news, events to visit.

I unearthed a catalogue that I'd picked up in around 1983 of Acorn Computer Systems . This catalogue overlaps the BBC Micro era (which was r...

Edsger Dijkstra had this to say about Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. I'm sure he was exaggerating here for effect;

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted.

The search added AI overviews on top of older extras, but you can get rid of all that

The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

A push for interoperability is accelerating, but maybe not fast enough to stop biometrics taking over

A set of rules, their rationale and a short practical guide to creating useful commits.

I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is to decide that you want to write perfect code. If I wrote that in an internal memo, I imagine the engineering team would mutiny, but software quality is certainly an interesting topic where I continue to refine my thinking.

How the JPEG file—and the lossy compression it allowed and encouraged—became the dominant way we shared digital photos on the internet.

It's hard to pay attention when your context goes out the window.

Laurent Le Brun's blog

We’re big fans of calculators, computers and vintage magazines, so when we see something at the intersection of all three we always take a look. Back in 1966, Electronics Illustrated included…

I like my integrated development environment. But sometimes my IDE does things for me, and I have no idea how it’s doing them. That's a problem.

I do a lot of useless stuff on the interwebz; Like facebooking, twittering, blogging, redditing etc… but once in a while do some really useful stuff as well E.g. trapexit.org, stackoverflow.c…

Thinking Like a Machine, Feeling Like a Human: The Psychology of Coding Success

Last week, I stumbled on a marvelous book: “Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think” by Edmund Callis Berkeley. What’s really fun about it is the way it sounds like it could be written just this year…

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In this article, we will discuss the various autonomous agents that are utilised in our new platform, and how they come together to provide a seamless integration experience.

Godspeed is a todo manager built for speed. 100% keyboard driven, every interaction in 50ms.

Automating information retrieval with AI-powered chatbots stops your engineers from serving as “human search engines” for colleagues.

The emergence of a conflict between Qualcomm and Arm over desktop chip dominance feels like a revival of one of the PC industry’s most important conflicts.

How the Brannock Device, a measuring tool you’ve definitely seen but don’t know the name of, made it a lot easier to figure out our shoe size.

Balancing speed, simplicity, and future-proofing in feature development is a subtle art. Let's take a look at some ways to approach this!

Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...

I thought I'd share one of the most maniacal piles of JavaScript that I have ever written. It is monstrously awful, and does something useful and beautiful. It is a love-hate relationship without the love. I speak of course of the DNA Lounge Sign Generator. This is the page that we use at the club for printing signs in our signature style: drink special signs, reserved table signs, window pie