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Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such a…
·hackaday.com·
Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
Why Over-Engineering Happens
Why Over-Engineering Happens
Over-engineering slows delivery, raises costs, and kills products. Learn why it happens—and how to build simpler, stronger software.
·yusufaytas.com·
Why Over-Engineering Happens
OpsOrch | Unified Ops Platform
OpsOrch | Unified Ops Platform
OpsOrch stitches together telemetry, incident response, and automation so teams can see, decide, and act with confidence.
·opsorch.com·
OpsOrch | Unified Ops Platform
State of AI Agent Security 2026
State of AI Agent Security 2026
We audited 30 AI agent projects. 93% use unscoped API keys with no per-agent identity, no consent, and no revocation.
·grantex.dev·
State of AI Agent Security 2026
The Maintainer Is the Interface
The Maintainer Is the Interface
People assume the interface of an open source project is the API surface. The README. The documentation. The function signatures and the error messages and...
·kennethreitz.org·
The Maintainer Is the Interface
The FP Article I Can't Seem to Finish
The FP Article I Can't Seem to Finish
I've been trying to write a 'why functional programming' piece for over a year. Here's why it keeps falling apart.
·cekrem.github.io·
The FP Article I Can't Seem to Finish
Sit On Your Ass Web Development
Sit On Your Ass Web Development
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
·blog.jim-nielsen.com·
Sit On Your Ass Web Development
CI should fail on your machine first
CI should fail on your machine first
When you think of CI, you probably picture a remote server somewhere: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. You push your code, you wait, and eventually you get a green checkmark or a red X. This is so normal that we don't even question it. But why does CI have to be remote?
·blog.nix-ci.com·
CI should fail on your machine first
Training a Neural Network in 16-bit Fixed Point on a 1982 BBC Micro | James Randall
Training a Neural Network in 16-bit Fixed Point on a 1982 BBC Micro | James Randall
Training and running a neural network on a 1982 BBC Micro — first in BBC BASIC, then in 6502 assembly. Fixed-point Q4.11 arithmetic, a sigmoid lookup table, and a shift-and-add multiplier all prove that backpropagation doesn't need a FPU, a GPU, or anything invented after 1985.
·jamesdrandall.com·
Training a Neural Network in 16-bit Fixed Point on a 1982 BBC Micro | James Randall
Anonymizing Data with Greenmask and OpenEverest - OpenEverest
Anonymizing Data with Greenmask and OpenEverest - OpenEverest
Learn how to use Greenmask alongside OpenEverest to automatically anonymize production data and restore it to a staging environment — keeping developers productive without exposing sensitive information.
·openeverest.io·
Anonymizing Data with Greenmask and OpenEverest - OpenEverest
XML is a Cheap DSL
XML is a Cheap DSL
Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
·unplannedobsolescence.com·
XML is a Cheap DSL
The Intelligent Network Mandate ~ Chris Grundemann
The Intelligent Network Mandate ~ Chris Grundemann
The network that runs your business is facing a reckoning. For service providers and data center operators, that reckoning isn't abstract, it's existential. In 75 years, networking has gone through two complete transformations. We're in the middle of a third. Most organizations are
·chrisgrundemann.com·
The Intelligent Network Mandate ~ Chris Grundemann
The Mythical Agent-Month
The Mythical Agent-Month
The following article originally appeared on Wes McKinney’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Like a lot of people, I’ve
·oreilly.com·
The Mythical Agent-Month
“You’re absolutely right!”
“You’re absolutely right!”
The year is 2006. A contract web developer who is working from home decides to take his Pomodoro break by walking to a thrift store down…
·wiredsis.medium.com·
“You’re absolutely right!”