Technology Commentary

The year-end Tedium awards continue with an excellent, breathtaking feature on Elliott Smith’s high-school bands. Yes, multiple.

I’m lucky to have two hands, let’s be clear, and the minor struggles I’ve had with them over the years don’t qualify as any kind of real hardship. Yet there have been a lot …

A WebAssembly component plays a critical role in how runtimes that run inside WebAssembly modules are deployed. But its standardization is still being worked out.

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Understanding how human memory and learning works, the differences between beginners and experts, and practical steps developers can take to improve their learning, training, and recruitment.

Rust Revolution: Exploring its ascendancy as the future of system-level Programming - Unveiling the capabilities and impact of the rising language in software development.

Last week I bought a Christmas tree. It’s not the tallest, nor the bushiest, the tip is kinda crooked, but it gets the work done. While carrying my new acquisition through the snowy streets, the comforting smell of freshly cut pine reminded me of how much I like trees, specially git worktrees.

eBPF stands for extended Berkeley packet filter. Find out everything you should know about Linux eBPF in this comprehensive technology guide.

Beware of temporary alliances.

Provisioning a fleet of servers in 30 minutes is magic, but it is not a requirement that comes up that often for most businesses, David Heinemeier Hansson argues.

2023 was a breakout year for GenAI to help developers build apps. and toolmakers tried to meet developers where they work most.

The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

A very basic scatterplot built with base R and the plot() function. Explanation and code provided.

The use of the phrase “critical mass” in this NYTimes story about the enshittification of Goodreads stopped me in my tracks. Give all of Goodreads’s issues, it might seem easy eno…

SK8 is written for multimedia and authoring tool developers who integrate media components (movies, sounds, still pictures, text, etc.) into a final...

Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime.

Working on vintage computers, electronics, and FPGAs

Here's the hard to find ISO version of Open Genera 2.0 with the patch in a zip file. This requires Tru64 to work (either on a physical or emulated...

You need to rescue the princess with code–but sometimes your code doesn’t work and the princess is a dragon and you’re a fish. Welcome to programming!

The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths

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Here are some proposed questions for interviewing someone for an SRE role. Really, these are just conversation starters to get them reflecting and discussing specific incident details. The question…

In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until it’s too late. Even though at least