Technology Commentary

With Threads starting to federate, there has been push back in corners of Mastodon, with some server admins blocking users from @threads.net entirely. I think just about everyone has complicated feelings about Meta, but I think this kind of move only harms users of the Fediverse. Adam Newbold has written about this, and I agree [...]

Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing artificial-intelligence chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative AI developers from startups to Microsoft , OpenAI and Google parent Alphabet .

Twenty years ago, social media companies started telling us: “Hey, use this free digital mediaproduct!” We individually used it, or didn’t. And then we

On Monday, March 4, 2024, CITP and DeCenter co-hosted a workshop on the topic of decentralized social media. The invite-only workshop brought together a

esbuild and Redis1 are two examples of codebases with exceptional documentation. Through their READMEs, changelogs, architecture documents, and code comments, both projects explain their design in such a way that someone new to the codebase can understand where things are, how things are done, and why they are done that way. If you’re a developer looking to get better at documenting your code and software architecture, these are great case studies.

During the 1980s, a moral panic swept across the landscape with the mistaken belief that there were Satanic messages hidden in various games, books, and music that at any moment would corrupt the y…

Today's network environments are too complex to track by purely manual efforts. With digital twin technology, IT teams can build a virtual model of the production network and use it to validate configurations, simulate changes, and streamline management.

If your open source database is working now, why touch it? Because end-of-life software is harder to maintain, and you could miss out on valuable new features.

A history that will satisfy nobody.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a detector that enables the detection of a single photon’s worth of radio frequency energy. The chip is only 10 mm square and the te…

In the 1950s, this MIT graduate student convinced engineers to build computers using superconducting magnetic switches instead of tubes or transistors

Have you ever heard of a Cryotron Computer before? Of course not. Silicon killed the radio star: this is a story of competing technologies back in the day. The hand above holds the two competitors,…

[Sean Haas] is a “dangerous freelance historian,” and his recent talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Southern California covers the cryotron — a strange detour on the road to…

In 1987, your portable Osborne computer had a problem. Who you gonna call? Well, maybe the company that made “The Osborne Survival Kit,” a video from Witt Services acquired by the Compu…

The AI Industry’s Creation Myth

The new photobook “LAN Party” looks back at the era of online gaming, and gamers, in the 1990s and early ’00s — a time when web-based technology was in flux.

One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to answer those questions, I wrote up some notes, which summarize two perspectives on “being a technology company.” The first perspective is Ben Thompson’s “Software has zero marginal costs.

These engineering disciplines must coexist and work in parallel to provide secure and reliable applications in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

By distributing tasks between the edge and the cloud, we can optimize AI applications for speed, efficiency, security and privacy.

A brief book update: I wanted to share that Slow Productivity debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list last week! Which is ... Read more

Hazel Weakly discusses platforms and platform engineering, and what it means to learn, and how collective thought scales across a team, an organization and an industry.

Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away, but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their time working on.

Wonder Tools 💥 Candor reveals the person behind the professional

Great teams don’t have perfect members. Instead, they have honest, open communication that nurtures trust and a feeling of unity.

In this blog, let’s learn the potential of a MyScale free pod and what kind of GenAI applications you can build using 5 million free vectors with the free pod of MyScale vector database.

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