Technology Commentary

President Bob Guenser sums up the history of Signature Plastics, creator and manufacturer of keycap profiles like SA and DSA, on occasion of preparing for retirement and searching for buyer candida…

The X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header provides crucial insight into the origin of web requests. The header works as a mechanism for…

Google appears to hide away an key feature from its search engine—an easily accessible cache of search results. (It’s still there, if you know where to look.)

Overture to our small Lisp to x86-64 compiler

Reading Ben Thompson’s coverage of Google’s earnings call this week,  one thing jumps out, and simply can’t be ignored: Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked a simple question, and, …

Because moral progress is real (we improve our morality over time) new generations will inevitably see moral deficiencies in previous generations. To some degree we can guess and anticipate what they will find embarrassing about us today, but it will … Continue reading →

How are populations distributed if you roll up zip code regions to just the first two digits? What about just the first digit?

Yet Another Software Engineer's Blog

Microservices might simplify coordination and collaboration at scale, but transform all your hard work into costs that line someone else’s pocket.

The development of trolls appears to be the internet’s version of carcinization.

Will app developers get on board?

Project Tapestry will make a universal, chronological timeline of the public web.

I was introducing a friend to Serial Experiments Lain and when we got to the episode where the Knights of the Eastern Calculus are doing an infodump on MAJIC-12, Vannevar Bush, John Lilly and Ted Nelson, I made a comment about Nelson and my friend said, "Wait, these people are real??" So then I got to tell the story about the time I met him. He came to Netscape to, basically, yell at us for ...

It's not just you – things really are getting worse

I just read two “reviews” of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, one from John Gruber and another from Nilay Patel. I put “reviews” in quotes because I think these two write ups are very different in how they approached their respective pieces. Nilay’s review is more of a traditional

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In a rare visit back to TwitterX, I fortuitously stumbled across a conversation between the prolific author Steven B. Johnson, now editorial director of Google Labs (who knew?), and This Week in…

aka “New Year, New Philosophies” (via Shop blog) In 2023, I finally got the activation energy to learn and setup Shopify and launch my o...

A headset, a spatial productivity platform, and a personal entertainment device.

Hello, welcome to the new publicinfrastructure.org! I hope you find it colorful and inviting. There’s a lot of information on this site because there’s a lot of different things we do, but my intention is to create a space that rewards curiosity while making it easy to locate just what you came here to find. […]

Musings of a dreamer who should have never left the analog era.

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Intel under Pat Gelsinger is reaping the disaster that came from a lack of investment and execution a decade ago; the company, though, appears to be headed in the right direction, as evidenced by i…

A bot can seamlessly pull project details or meeting notes with a simple chat command. Information now can come to you in real time.

Testing in production has long been regarded as a risky endeavor, often controversial among developers, testers and stakeholders alike.

Hobbes OS/2 Archive: "As of April 15th, 2024, this site will no longer exist."

The mixed-feelings reviews about the Framework 16 laptop show how complicated it is to pull off the hat trick of ambitious, powerful, and repairable.