Technology Commentary

Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.

Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3…

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer w…

It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the turn of the twentiet…

In the past decades, software engineering teams are faced with a phenomenon who’s challenges are becoming more and more pressing: They’re…

Farewell, Anthropocene, we hardly knew ye. 🌹AI is here. It's won. Yes, it's in that awkward teenage phase where it still says inappropriate things, dresses

"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."

One in 10 parking fines issued as a result of scans made by cars using automatic number plate recognition systems is unjustified, privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) has calculated. The cars are equipped with special cameras which can check parked cars more efficiently than inspectors on foot, making them an attractive alternative for local councils. The cars tot up between 250 million and 375 million scans a year, resulting in three to five million fines. In 500,000, or 10%, of...

An appreciation post for something so simple, yet so wonderful to use

For all the noise around developer tools, API tooling has not really changed that much in the last ten years. Most of it still follows the same basic pattern...

In 1972, IBM separated values with commas. No specification. No committee. Fifty-three years later, 60% of enterprises still use it.

Celebrating 50 years of Apple: a look back at innovation, the rise of the iPhone, and the engineers behind the magic.

I don't feel that these performative actions have resulted in any real productivity gains. I realize now, that this is because I was focusing on the wrong thing.

What 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract says about throttling

In the 1990s, CS taught foundations. In 2026, it teaches frameworks. Alan Kay warned us. MIT proved him right.

What is Digital Garage and why this place exists This cyber corner was inspired by my grandfathers both of whom were capable of building things from scrat...

A friend recently told me, “(Her) Blog feels like home.” I couldn’t agree more. That led me to think of analogies for social platforms and websites in terms of how much power and freedom they actually give you over your content. If we think of what you put out on the internet in terms of physical places, this is what they are like.

What does it actually mean to build a better web, and what do we owe each other in doing so? A response to the 32-bit Café thread about trust, onboarding, and the distance between knowing something is wrong and doing something about it.

By Ben Sykes

Aria Networks launches "Network that Thinks" initiative to optimize AI cluster performance through Model Flop Utilization, SONiC, telemetry, and AI agents.

I spend a lot of time engaged in the craft of writing – I’ve penned more than 1.5 million words on Searchblog alone. Writing anchors nearly all my projects, from teaching at univ…

In 1999, the word "community" took on a new meaning on the web. One that would have a lasting impact for years to come.

The open web is under pressure from AI companies and large platforms, but its troubles did not start with AI. We also chose convenience over control, and we will have to change that if we want a better web.

Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI is rapidly transforming the landscape of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows, offering unprecedented efficiency and power. I wanted to see if I could get the Terraform MCP server working with my local Terraform Enterprise (TFE) instance.

Terraform scales beautifully — until it doesn't. Explore the real challenges engineering teams face with Terraform at scale and the AI-assisted solutions reshaping IaC management.

Mike Hall is a web developer and Doctor Who fan, but not in that order. He has been building for the web since 1998, and in that time has been a frontend lead, a backend lead, a CTO, a devops engineer, a full-stack developer, a PHP guy, a JavaScript guy, a TypeScript guy, a CSS guy, and a pain in the neck. He is currently Lead Engineer at a Manchester-based startup named Zaptic, creating software for frontline workers in the manufacturing sector. In his spare time, he is active in the fields of science communication and scientific skepticism, advocating for evidence-based thinking and reason. He produces and presents a weekly podcast called Skeptics with a K, is on the board of directors for The Skeptic magazine, and is co-founder of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. In his other spare time he likes to rest, but there isn’t much of that to go around.