Technology Commentary

On March 7, 2003, a struggling company called The SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the success of Linux was the result of a theft of SCO's technology. Two decades later, it is easy to look back on that incident as a somewhat humorous side-story in the development of Linux. At the time, though, it shook our community to its foundations. It is hard to overestimate how much the community we find ourselves in now was shaped by a ridiculous lawsuit 20 years ago.

The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973 at the photocopying giant’s newly established R&D laboratory, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). It seems so uncannily familiar toda…

The promise of 3D movies is that they are supposed to draw the viewer further into the world of the film -- the all-important im

You’ve heard about the many different snake oil concoctions shilled by con men over the centuries, but did you know that inventors created a variety of machines for similar purposes? The most well-known example is probably the belt vibrator, which purported to induce weight loss. In Argentina during the 1930s, Juan Baigorri Velar claimed to […]

Guglielmo Marconi’s early experiments in wireless communication, particularly his radio transmission during the 1899 America’s Cup yacht races, had

Who knows what happened to it while you weren't looking.

Formula 1 has done an impressive job earning fans; the NBA should study it, because the pay TV bundle is slowly disintegrating

Scientists receive fewer citations as they get older. Matt Clancy explains: Pick any author at random, and on average the papers they publish earlier in their career, whether as first author or last author, will be more highly cited and cited by a more diverse group of fields, than a paper they publish later in […]

Consider reliable underlying technology, easy integration with security tools, policy granularity across environments and low latency before you put an API gateway into production.

On Being Intentional Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

While Large Language Models have become an important foundation for conversational AI systems, many people incorrectly assume they'll solve all conversational AI problems — they won't.

Explore how using GitHub and HashiCorp together enables enterprises to develop and ship to their customers faster and more secure with consistent workflows and actions.

Take a look inside how the streaming company designs and implements the cultural and organizational changes needed for platform engineering. #platformengineering #Spotify #casestudies #DevOps

At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

We've all been there. The deadline is looming, everything is behind schedule, and you're in a rush to finish the FooBar module. You're puzzl...

Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit.

Automation is the key to reducing human error, improving reliability, minimizing manual toil and optimizing stretched ITOps teams.

When Steve Jobs made it back to Apple, the company had dozens of products that would not survive the company's move to a much simpler product matrix. In a sea of forgettable Macs and accessories, the biggest loss was the Newton. Here is the announcement itself, in its entirety: Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it [...]

I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was an eye opening experience, and I learned a great deal about the reality and the optics of selling a company, particularly one with no money and a shrinking user base. Humbling was just the beginning. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to evaluate a number of companies from the other side of the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) table.

Last week I asked if Google was f*cked, and since then quite a few of you have reached out asking what I think the company could do to … un-f*ck itself. “Easy enough to declare the comp…

In Mastodon relationship graphs I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods. When I use the word map here, I’m channeling Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps: Every m…

Rethinking user personas for technical documentation.

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How browsers and the major HTTP servers take advantage of this new protocol.

I keep working through my API contract testing discussions with folks. I wrote about getting pedantic when it comes to API contract testing last night to help me get a grasp on things, and I am working on a piece about change to augment this post, but as I was laying there last night thinking about all of this, I am realizing that folks see API contracts in the same way they see terms of service.