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The company behind WordPress decided to offer a service that covers your web hosting long after you die. Sticker shock aside, I don’t hate the idea.

The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

Documentation is not only the first step in your platform strategy, it's what can make platform engineering self-service and self-marketed.

Posted on Friday 25 Aug 2023. 871 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Many years ago, my favorite podcast was The Totally Rad Show. It was a fun video podcast where the hosts reviewed movies, games, TV shows, and other general nerd stuff. The hosts were Jeff Cannata (who last year I called the podcasting GOAT), Dan Trachtenberg (who went on to direct

Has development of your favorite open source project stalled? Triage is sometimes a great way to get things moving again!

The recent emergence of an out-of-nowhere chart-topper offers a great opportunity to talk about the music industry’s new favorite trick for gaming the Hot 100.

The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say ‘NO!’

The best operations platforms can quickly resolve high-impact incidents and elevate continuous learning, in which teams are ahead of issues before they start.

How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.

Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I…

Just like the great majority of programming-related courses, I was introduced to programming with the...

Internal developer portals have four main parts: a software catalog, a scorecard layer, a developer self-service actions layer and a workflow automation layer.

Stephen Wolfram shares larger-than-life stories, research and projects of his friend Ed Fredkin. Plus, their debates over programming and physics.

Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures. In pursuit of these goals, we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. …

SSD prices are insanely low right now—but manufacturers focused on bottom line have built computers designed to prevent consumers from leveraging this trend.

A good tool is not about its hype or popularity, but how well it solves your problems and fits into your ecosystem.

Why would network managers recklessly jeopardize security with unauthorized, potentially dangerous passwordless server access?

Help developers gain autonomy on AppSec by creating a better context for dealing with vulnerabilities and misconfigurations using an IDP.

We get better at coding by reading code, but code isn't designed to be studied. So let's make projects that *can* be studied.

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In 1984, the late sociologist Charles Perrow published the book: Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. In this book, he proposed a theory that accidents were unavoidable in systems …

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