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Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of Silicon Valley. It’s something I’ve thought about a lot as well in my career, and also while writing on my upcoming book on operating as an engineering executive–how much do good executives really matter?

My wife recently moved off of Substack. She was run off by their support of fascism on their platform, and was in real need of supporting her 1,300+ subscribers. I was impressed with her way of handling the research, planning, and ultimate migration of her newsletter operation, and found the pragmatic API story there to be one worth telling. While I think REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and other event-driven approaches to APIs will continue to dominate the enterprise API landscape, I can’t help but feel her pragmatic real world needs and solutions will continue to shape the consumer API experience.

Latest on human-machine-intelligence-autonomous and beyond. First reflections on new things emerging from the TH/NGS 2023 conference.

Bid farewell to localStorage! Embrace IndexedDB for speed, type-safe storage, and non-blocking data transactions. #IndexedDB #WebDev

Virtual copies of our cars are leading to better, safer, and more efficient transportation.

Do you ever struggle to provide meaningful feedback during code review? Or maybe it's the other way around and the comments you receive are far from the ideal. This post may help you to understand how to make your intents explicit

Low-code can be a great tool but it often fails to live up to its marketing

Most software projects end up in a big ball of mud. The major cause is neglecting internal quality and focusing on adding features with dirty hacks because of unrealistic timelines. Code has the natural tendency to erode if you don’t launch countermeasures permanently. This observation applies to all systems and is also known as the the second law of thermodynamics: Systems tend to arrive at a state […] where the entropy is highest […]

A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

Web components are kind of having a moment right now. And as part of that, shadow DOM is having a bit of a moment too. Or it would, except that much of the conversation seems to be about why you sh…

“I told you so”. Or its 4 evil friends: “I knew it would happen” “I said so last month!” “If you would have listened to me” “See, what did I say?” There are only 2 responses that can save you: Respond with: “No, you didn’t. You said the opposite”. Turn away and go. And watch them explode.

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First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. - John Johnson

Yesterday I wrote about a way to memorize a random 256-bit encryption key. This isn't trivial, but it's doable using memory techniques. There's a much easier way to create a memorable encryption key: start with something memorable, then apply a hash function. Why not just do that? There are two conflicting criteria to satisfy: cryptographic

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All implementations of mutable state in a geographically distributed system are either slow (require coordination when updating data) or weird (provide weak consistency only). Sebastian Burckhardt,…

The predictions that turned out correct ... and the ones we wished were right

To assist our navigation, here are some considerations for your practice and use of AI that should help you maneuver through these waters safely.

EFF has long advocated for affordable, accessible, future-proof internet access for all. Nearly 80% of Americans already consider internet access to be as essential as water and electricity, so as our work, health services, education, entertainment, social lives, etc. increasingly have an online...

Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives: Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization -- and it did not include Firefox. The focus for the future of Mozilla -- according to Mozilla -- is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services. In fact, Mozilla leadership stated, quite plainly, that they ...

And how can you figure it out what they really need

How different languages implement the pipe operator, and what I think is the best way - Danny Yang's Personal Website and Blog

As a developer creating pull requests in a git repo, you almost certainly use one of two distinct workflows for integrating changes from one branch into another: merging or rebasing. There are three key points in the development process where you need to do this:

How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style

Let's explore examples of the Mediator Pattern in C#! See how the Mediator Pattern in C# can promote loose coupling, and increase scalability.

At Stack Builders, our mission is to push the boundaries of the software industry through quality, pragmatic solutions that bring to life our clients' vision. One of the ways that we invest in our team to ensure alignment with this mission is to have all of our full-time engineers complete an approximately 50-hour training course in the Haskell language early in their career at Stack Builders.