The Rise And Fall Of Free Dial Up Internet
In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a computer in those days require…
Hacking The System In A Moral Panic: We Need To Talk
It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being used to print firearms. The latest surrounds a Washington State Legislatur…
The IPV4 We Didn’t Get
If you have ever read science fiction, you’ve probably seen “alternate history” stories. You know, where Europeans didn’t discover the New World until the 19th century, or t…
Fast Paths and Slow Paths
Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale
The Cult of Efficiency and the Technological Society
Modernity lays at your feet hundreds if not thousands of tools to make our lives cleaner, smoother, and more efficient.
Linux Fu: UPNP A Port Mapping Odyssey
If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). This is a fairly old tech — created by…
The Unreasonable Power Density Of Lithium-Ion
We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and everything that’s afforded us. I’m trying to think of a gadget, a hobby, or nea…
John Battelle's Search Blog How Long Will Your Claw Be Open?
It’s “phase two” of the AI boom, and the claws are out. Back at the tail end of 2024, I wrote these words: “2025 will not be the year AI agents take off. As the bloom came …
LotusNotes
Programming patterns in simple words
Core ideas behind programming patterns
The Need for Cloud Security in a Modern Business Environment | Linux Journal
License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room - ShiftMag
Python library chardet sparks debate over AI rewrites, MIT relicensing, and LGPL, raising legal, ethical, and governance challenges in open source.
Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI
On March 26, Addy Osmani and I are hosting the third O'Reilly AI Codecon, and this time we're taking on the question of what software craftsmanship looks like
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
Well Being in Times of Algorithms
Investigation of the ground pillars for a well-lived life, and how the open web can help us with that.
A Sum of Errors
Or, how to lie with numeric affordances
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
The Other Half of Accessibility: Why Soft Skills Determine Whether Programs Succeed
A person in a checkered blazer interacts with a floating digital interface above a tablet Introduction When it comes to accessibility management, success is...
Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?
We bet an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack, and now fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for.
Rationale for a Dynamic Site
My rationale for a dynamically-produced blog site
Soft Forks: How Agent Skills Create Specialized AI Without Training
Our previous article framed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the toolbox that provides AI agents tools and Agent Skills as materials that teach AI agents
Choice, Control, And Interruption
We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can do everything, it’s hard for a per…
Dark software
How the SaaS and fintech models are breaking down, why food delivery and dark kitchens provide an alternative model, and what the future of software may look like as a result
Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025
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Lessons Learned Building a Real-Time Collaboration System on AT Protocol
Lessons Learned Building a Real-Time Collaboration System on AT Protocol # Lessons Learned Building a Real-Time Collaboration System on AT Protocol Over the past weeks, I've been experimenting with …
You can’t verify all the AI-generated code
When AI-generated code goes wrong, you’re likely grappling with verification debt.
We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On
The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cl…
I Thought AI Was Overrated. I Was Using It Wrong.
Most people quit AI too early.