Technology Commentary

In my last post I talked about why modern observability has become so expensive. At the end of the post I posit a question: What if by default we never send any telemetry at all? In this post I’m goin

X509Crypt Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

What happens when a news site launches that basically ignores the SEO orthodoxy? Easy: They do fascinating stuff. Hence, Robinhood’s Sherwood.

Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer. I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller sent in

From punk rock to adult contemporary. (And back again?)

Decades after some predicted its demise, the mainframe is as vital as ever, even in the era of AI.

When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access…

GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more.

Adam Osborne was the master of momentum—until it all came crashing down

How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away

The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern

Put simply, if data access is slowing down your application, the only solution is a faster database, not a cache.

Knowing Machines is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.

Do you really need that cloud hosting package? If you’re just running a website — no matter whether large or very large — you probably don’t and should settle for basic host…

How to read what multiple people mean by the word openness and see through the PR speak.

We will begin labeling a wider range of video, audio and image content as "Made with AI" when we detect industry standard AI image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content.

How Silicon Valley’s Race for Monopoly Inhibits Product-Market Fit

Posted on Friday 29 Mar 2024. 1,320 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Back in the 1970s, Rockwell had an ad that proudly proclaimed: “The best electronic brains are still human.” They weren’t wrong. Computers are great and amazing, but — for n…

Some Thoughts about Software Quality

An important key to performing accurate and successful SPICE simulation is to use high quality SPICE models. Learn how to use these models in Multisim.

If you’ve ever worked on a large project — your own or a group effort — you know it can be difficult to find exactly where you want to be in the source code. Sure, you can use cta…