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Tech's most contentious debates end with people talking over each other, but they make way more sense viewed through the lens of inter-generational conflict.

Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand

Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colle…

Since Oracle has weighed in about Red Hat’s source changes, it’s time to take a look at the history of Oracle Linux. That takes us back to 2006, the world of enterprise computing, and i…

WebAssembly trajectory reflects similar cycles that happen with technologies, such as Java, containers. But when will it be ready for the enterprise?

Let’s start this with a short exercise:Think of all the places you’ve worked at, where you heard “we care about code quality”, “we’re willing to invest the time …

The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.

The End of Anonymized Data and What to Do About It

With Twitter’s stability looking less and less assured, and other social networks making decisions so unpopular as to cause overt user rebellion, many Web users are wondering how they are goi…

In this article, I will compare API Gateway with GRPC Gateway.

In the world of spectator sports, AI already has an important job: hiding, and reporting abusive comments made on the social media feeds of athletes.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software. And I mean that in the literal sense: it’s changed the way that I write software; it’s re-shaped my development workflow. The idea is this: you can write programs that modify themselves. And I don’t mean macros or metaprogramming or anything fancy like that. I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.

Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.

Here's a story you might find relatable. We kicked off a new integration project that started 3 months later than everyone wanted. APIs just shipped after a bunch of delays. We were handed API docs and a test environment and started work building out the new feature. The documentation was

I tag blog posts rather erratically, and keep meaning to go back and systematically taxonomize my thousands of past posts. One thing that my new blogging platform includes is another way to highlight particular posts … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering

Two universal facts about user documentation: Documentation is really important. We are really bad at writing it. We don’t have good theories on what makes for useful documentation. That is except for the four document model, or Diátaxis.1 I’m glad that people use it. I’m also a little frustrated that people use it even when its inappropriate. My problem is that it’s not a universal or comprehensive model: there’s a lot of documentation people need to write that doesn’t neatly fit the model.

And also a new blog post (and also a Patreon announcement)

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.