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Consumer technology has trained users to expect and deal with crashes and other bugs. When the whole world runs on AI, the inevitable glitches will have greater consequences.

What the **** does that mean?

In 9th grade, when I first learned about Lenz’s Law1 in Physics class, I was fascinated by its implications. It states: The direction of an induced current will always oppose the motion causing it. In simpler terms, imagine you have a hoop and a magnet. If you move the magnet close to the hoop, the hoop generates a magnetic field that pushes the magnet away. Conversely, if you pull the magnet away, the hoop creates a magnetic field that pulls it back.

With disruption hitting the media industry acutely in 2024, now is the time to lean into owning your creative work. Have a say in your creative destiny.

Building software is a tough job. Writing software on your local machine and testing it with some edge cases is quite easy. The challenge…

To avoid data loss and maintain a level of protection, organizations need a blueprint for adopting their hybrid cloud systems.

Surprise surprise, Python continues to be one of the most sought-after programming languages by employers according to Jobbio. TNW looks why demand, salary, and new opportunities are on the rise fo…

We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.

An anticipated component model will enable WebAssembly to not just see its expanding use beyond web browsers and servers — but will be able to allow users to deploy different applications running inside numerous lightweight modules.

We talk a lot about slicing stories but then when it comes to slicing larger types (epics, features, etc), we tend to wave our hands and say “it’s the same, only bigger”, which while true, is rarely helpful.

Being a tech lead is a lot about behaviors. I learned a lot through trial and error and want to share actionable tips with you to master these behaviors. Click to read Techlead Mentor, by Raviraj Achar, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The management cultures I inhabit in my very-online blogger life tend to run a generation ahead of the ones I support in my very-offline consultant life, since I mostly support executives roughly m…

Made up a 2×2 after a long time. And am kicking off a new Lunchtime Leadership blogchain. Name inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide joke about most work being done by random people who wander …

Cool tech. But is it comfortable?

Posted on Wednesday 21 Feb 2024. 1,196 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.

A better UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all

Why has the solution to the Kubernetes complexity problem proven so elusive?

The AI professional, who may not have operations experience, can define and orchestrate an ML stack, using Python or another language of their choice.

Overcoming batch-oriented architectures and embracing the advantages of streaming data are foundational to robust AI deployments.

Should you build a custom internal developer platform, buy one off the shelf or combine both approaches? Weigh the pros and cons to decide.

We can always make our test suite more DRY. But should we?

I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise: >

Non-DRY specs are more maintainable because they are an excellent example of choosing duplication over the wrong abstraction, of writing code that posesses locality instead of compression, code that is simple instead of complex. Got it? I was walking around the neighborhood today and heard, to my pleasant surprise, a familiar voice on

Hacking your way in is so 2022 – logging in is much easier

Bringing web tools and technology to the hardware world, through Elixir and Nerves, enables Agile IoT product development. Learn how in this whitepaper.

Entities which extract profits from software commons like Linux and Ethereum have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them.

The Internet is now a very complicated place

The hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web. If the  bit is the quark of information, the hyperlink is the hydrogen molecule. It shapes the microstructure of inf…