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Inventing new materials is only the first step. Getting them into mass production and use is just as hard.

Startup Userfront takes on the complexity of scaling customer accounts for SaaS companies as they grow.

This weekend, I shelled out $5.99 for a month-long subscription to the streaming service Peacock. I wanted to watch the Prefontaine Classic, the annual track and field event held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. In particular, I wanted to watch Sha'Carri Richardson in the 100m and

WebAssembly has been the new hotness for what feels like ages. The creator of Docker tweeted that Docker wouldn’t have been necessary if WebAssembly existed in 2008. People have made talks speculating that it will eat the entire programming model. Almost every language has been compiled to WebAssembly. So why are people not using WebAssembly over 7 years after its release? Standardization Is Slow First and most obviously, WebAssembly has been very slow to standardize.

Fly.io is a highly visible cloud provider in the Elixir ecosystem and they put forward an interesting promise. They don't deliver on that promise currently but I think it would be very compelling if they get there. Especially for Elixir. Let's dig in.

Wonder Tools ✂️ Create a visual scrapbook

Shifts in the tech labor market haven’t been felt evenly across all roles. These 5 roles have proven highly resilient in the tech industry.

Book notes on "The Ascetic Programmer: How asceticism benefits programming, science, and the arts" by Antonio Piccolboni

Come along to the ‘Digital Identities Over Time’ online exhibition, where we will be showcasing work by Anshul Roy, Jeanne Jo and Mac Andre Arboleda. These artists took place in a virtual residency programme to explore futures of digital identities.

There’s a good few options for exporting data out of FPGAs, like Ethernet, USB2, or USB3. Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve Markgraf] brings us the hs…

With the news of Spotify bricking their Car Thing, now is the time to hack it. Spotify released a statement suggesting Car Thing owners reset to factory settings and safely dispose following local …

Watching a video about a scratch-built ultra-precise switch for metrology last week reminded me that it’s not always the projects that are the most elegant solutions that I enjoy reading about the …

Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott about Microsoft’s approach to building AI

Clayton Christensen continually predicts that Apple will be disrupted because his theory does not incorporate the importance of the user experience.

Breaking down the Big Tech AI landscape through the lens of integration and modularization

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

Duct tape programming is low status but creates value. Enterprise rewrites that tidy up duct tape projects at far greater expense are higher status.

What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works.

Self-service platform aims to make creating sophisticated stateful analytics easier and faster for people without coding experience.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary an...

The tale of restoring an ’80s timeless classic.

In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at a distance, all at once. …