Technology Commentary

The server in your basement suddenly has a global social media to support. What's your next move?

Python vs. PlusCal & TLA⁺

Initially, I planned for this to be an introduction to the Rust programming language for colleagues at work. However, when looking around online for inspiration, I noticed that one thing there was no shortage of, were Rust introductions. So with that in mind, I thought I would instead focus why I personally find the language interesting. So I won’t be teaching you how to write Rust. I won’t be giving an overview of the language syntax, or its type system.

How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k

I shoot a lot of pictures. Most are from altitude (such as the above). But lots are of people and places, for example, here are a few I shot at DWebCamp last summer: Importing and curating photos i…

Protos - Xe's Blog

We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. But that is not what this story is about. What it

A recent update enabled the program to make better hands, more realistic Asian faces, and convincing vintage photographs.

Business strategy is very easy to get wrong. You’re trying to make sure your resources and assets are efficiently deployed and focussed on your end goal, and that’s hard. There’s no magic bullet th…

A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to need to make. And, a while in the making, an experi…

That every problem needs an engineering solution—and that technology alone can provide it.

Every person has their own idea of the things that keep them alive.

From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. Enjoy! At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock developer potential. To find ways to let devs do more of the work they love and reduce the amount of time they spend dealing with needless hurdles, idling and churn.

With context, it comes understanding Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

Good practices, pains and other considerations from a client's perspective when building third party integrations

Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music.

In an interview with DPReview, Sigma CEO Kazoo Tamaki made some observations about the impact of computational photography and the rise of camera phones.  The technology that has impressed me the m…

SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested

Often, in the drive for efficiency, simplicity and speed we end up introducing unexpected complexity and new problems we hadn’t anticipated.

An outline of the options available in the Elixir BREAK menu.

We never knew how close we came to being crushed.

Throughout history scarcity has been the defining characteristic of economics, and really of power and control in general. It does power the law of supply and demand, the fundamental tenant of microeconomics, after all. People with information not accessible to others, or governments or groups with access to weapons not …

Learn how Fission models its work and communication style on the distributed systems we help build and support.

Women's History is being celebrated all month, and we have another story about an influential woman in science for you! Gladys West is an American mathematician who made significant contributions to

Just over 27 years ago, John Perry Barlow's declaration of the independence of Cyberspace claimed that governments "have no sovereignty" over the networked world. In 2023, we have ample reason to know better than that, but we still expect the free-software community to be left alone by the affairs of governments much of the time. A couple of recent episodes related to the war in Ukraine are making it clear that there are limits to our independence.