Technology Commentary

Over a year ago, Opal Camera CEO Veeraj Chugh and his co-founder, Stefan Sohlstrom, convinced me to replace my trusted Logitech Streamcam with their new sleek device, Opal C1. The Opal C1 is&n…

Investing in developer-friendly tools and services is not just about making developers happy; it's a requirement for your long-term success.

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles

It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

The unbundling of Big Search is here

It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed

Enterprise application delivery controllers support app modernization with API protection, multicluster ingress, IaC automation and more.

It streamlines interactions between applications and AI models, and provides a way to manage security, governance, observability and cost management.

If consciousness is inseparable from how we’re embodied, we’ll never know

A few weeks ago, I got a bit miffed reading yet another article that was too dismissive about memory safety, basically being mostly…

An analysis of the ramifications.

New computer languages are sometimes proposed with claims of great advantages compared to existing languages. What criteria should use if we decide to adopt?

By Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman The work of running a small social media platform is primarily social, rather than technical. Unlike big platforms, which are largely differentiated by technical affordances and whose work mostly involves building and maintaining technical infrastructure, small platforms are largely differentiated by social factors and most of their work involves […]

But One What?

Calm companies are profitable, value freedom, have a purpose, and improve the team's lives. Frenzied companies are crisis-driven.

The Atlantic is out with a delicious piece of doomerism: It’s The End of the Web As We Know It. Were it not for the authors, Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier, I’d have passed right on b…

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.

New types of jobs are emerging: The modern skillset that employers are recruiting for is vastly different from what they used to want.

Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then

Ben Gomes played a role in making Google’s first, most familiar service a phenomenon in the first place. Now he’s guiding it into the future.

Musk’s cool ideas rarely pan out.

Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s largest publishing network.

UNLOCK THE SECRETS TO ETERNAL DIGITAL LONGEVITY

The BWB Drumline performs before speakers take the stage at an event focused on artificial intelligence at the Museum of History and Industry on Thursday

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

If anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,” it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.