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The traveling circus didn’t have to appeal to everyone. They rode into town with the elephants, the bearded lady and the Tasmanian Devil, and the people who came, came. Once the folks who wan…

Those who won’t adapt would cease to exist.

Before Instagram, the disposable camera helped pave the way for digital photography. But the basic idea was a century old by the time it went mainstream.

Google's targeted ad initiative AdSense was initially launched as “content targeting advertising” 20 years ago this month. Here’s how it changed the internet.

Posted on Wednesday 8 Mar 2023. 583 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Episode 447 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Discover the groundbreaking achievements of the Top 11 most influential women in tech history who shattered barriers and changed the industry forever.

Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up. Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers, so that’s what they say out loud, but they generally believe it takes longer for a new engineer to become fully productive. They also know that their most impactful engineers are still becoming more productive after years with the company.

Project page for PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model.

Initial projects under the Nivenly umbrella include Aurae, a runtime project, and Hachyderm.io, a social network aimed at technologists. #opensource #NivenlyFoundation #Hachyderm #Aurae

I wrote a new macro today to avoid the embarrassment of explaining how I did the process by hand.

The list of Alpine Linux issues that can cause you a great amount of grief

Since the last post I've been in contact with some members of the Nix community with regards to joining the documentation team. From that discussion and my experience with other ecosystems I've had some ideas rolling around about what the ideal Nix documentation strategy/ecosystem would look like to me, so I'm putting those ideas in writing to start a discussion. These ideas aren't super concrete and I don't speak for anyone else, but they're my vision for how Nix documentation could better serve experienced users and onboard new ones.

Social-media algorithms show us what they want us to see, not what we want to see. But there is an alternative.

As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of …

There is a lot of hate directed at Japanese UI design.To Western eyes, it's just too busy, too dense, too confusing, too outdated, and just plain wrong.And sometimes that's true, but usually there are very good, and highly profitable, reasons Japanese websites and Japanese software looks the way it does.Today I sit down and talk (and argue a bit) with Brandon Hill about how Japanese design got this way, and the new direction it's currently heading.

At Tesla's recent Investor Day presentation, Lars Moravy, the company's VP of Vehicle Engineering, revealed a startling new manufacturing technique that up-ends assembly line production. To explain how it works, Moravy first introduced this animation of how cars are currently built: Traditional Method Within that animation, you probably spotted the

Based on our recent customer interviews and surveys, one of the top problems that package consumers face is insufficient package documentation, such as README, changelog, examples, and API reference. On the other hand, package authors may struggle with best practices for creating a clear and concise README.

We're never getting rid of ChatGPT - Xe's Blog

In a world where every service wants to put you on a subscription forever, is now the time to start self-hosting your apps instead? Let’s look at the landscape.

Protocols that use randomness should make it a deterministic function that takes a fixed-size string of random bytes, so it can be tested.

The Product from the Brand Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.

Someone mentioned idempotence at work. I looked it up and noted that it too is a property of functions, like function purity . I decided to...

Get ready to supercharge your OpenCV with a custom FFmpeg 5 video I/O backend as explained in this tutorial. Build Opencv 4.7 with FFmpeg 5

Diagrams can tell a story that is often complex and hard to understand by viewing consoles or CLI's. But for many developers and engineers they are often an afterthought.