Technology Commentary

Greed ruined a lot of great software out there and enshittification is a real deal among acquired companies… Is there anything we could do about it?

We are experiencing one of the most significant technological breakthroughs of the last few decades. Call it what you will: AI, generative AI, large language models... But where does it come from? Academics will tell you that it stems from decades of mathematical efforts on campus. But think about it: if this were the best … Continue reading Technology is culture

This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.

Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.

A few weeks ago in Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint, I mentioned our internal agent workflows that we are developing. This is not the core of Imprint–our core is powering co-branded credit card programs–and I wanted to document how a company like ours is developing these internal capabilities. Building on that post’s ideas like a company-public prompt library for the prompts powering internal workflows, I wanted to write up some of the interesting problems and approaches we’ve taken as we’ve evolved our workflows, split into a series of shorter posts:

On the last day of 2025, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri posted a 20-slide memo on Instagram. It covered AI, fake content, reality distortion, and how the platform will c…

Stop shipping tables. Build data products with clear contracts, real owners, lifecycle discipline, and observability so teams can trust data.

The next wave of cloud transformation will be about strategic dependence, resilience, and architectural honesty.

The Fate of Data Model Dependency

Queue, transform, and route events with automatic retries, monitoring, and alerts — plus a built-in visual webhook debugger.

One of the best videos of the year came from someone who once publicly quit YouTube. It’s a multi-hour epic—and it’s stuck with me for months.

Many AI apps are built on "vibes" — tweaking prompts until a demo works. But they fail in production. Real AI requires a full engineering ecosystem.

Scientists found a way to animate everyday objects and predict your next move, so your stapler is always nearby when you need it.

Nuon strongly encourages the use of split keyboards, which has fostered a passionate hobbyist culture among employees.

HTTP, WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, REST, and GraphQL

FinOps practices accelerate business value realization, drive financial accountability, cost efficiency, trust and collaboration across organization

Debug webhooks instantly without ngrok. Capture requests, mock APIs with latency, replay events, and stream logs via SSE. The essential tool for Stripe ...

The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

See what happens when you follow current best-practice prompting and why it still creates friction at scale.

Tick tock… Act now, or this mess might blow up in your face.

Event sourcing with CQRS is a powerful feature, but it presents difficult design decisions which can challenge dogmatic Domain Driven Design theory. Ultim...

When people talk about mobile networks, the conversation almost always starts with the air interface. Spectrum, waveforms, MIMO, antennas an...

The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes.

In this Fall edition of “Of Trees and Tries” we’re excited to share what we have been up to since the summer. If you were at IETF in Montreal earlier this month hopefully you got a chance to say hi to Benno (busy times as Nomcom chair), Luuk & Jasper

MyTerms will give strength to the Internet’s fabric of human connections, through agentic agreements between people and the organizations that serve them. The Internet is peer-to-peer, by design. It supports agreements between equals, for the good of both. On that equality a massive amount of new and better dealings can be built, on stronger foundations…

A disappearing Service Processor

A common UI pattern is something like this: People do lots of stuff with that “4 hours ago.” They might make it a permalink: Or they might give it a tooltip to show the exact datetime u…

Xiaomei Liu, Joseph Lynch, Chris Newton