Technology Commentary

Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web

Already broke your new year resolution? No wonder! How can new year resolutions work when the new year is an arbitrary date created by a…

The Data Conundrum Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

A comprehensive look at the state of WebAssembly in 2022 and 2023, exploring its recent advancements, challenges, and future prospects. From a review of what happened in 2022 to predictions for 2023, this article offers valuable insights into the current and future state of this rapidly evolving technology

A study compares JavaScript and Wasm on runtime and energy efficiency. In real-world applications, WebAssembly shines.

Alphabet (Google's parent company) is reportedly looking to rein in X, a division of Google that sets “moonshots”(- i.e. big audacious projects

When it comes to optimization and implementing #CloudOps and #FinOps successfully, how can you get everyone on board? #cloudoptimization #DevOps

With all the advancements in software development, apps could be much better. Why aren't they?

The evolution of CI/CD has given us more than just faster software updates. New classes of tools provide better observability, security and more.

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has been rapidly transforming our world, affecting every industry and changing the way we live, work and…

Everything in this world seems to occur in cycles, with many patterns I’ve wrestled with years ago coming around again. In 2014, in the heart of the Oracle vs. Google, me and my partner in crime Steve Willmott created the API Commons and APIs.json to help us make sense of the sprawling API landscape we saw emerging. I’ll dive into what each of these projects were shortly, but in short, they are machine-readable open source standards for licensing and indexing APIs. I’ve kept both of these specs alive over the years, even giving APIs.json a makeover a couple of years back, and investing in potential version 2.0 or alternate forms of the API indexing standard. I haven’t done much beyond brainstorming when it comes to API Commons, for a variety of reasons I will attempt to address in this narrative.

The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or illustration and find the defects or errors. Given hard work by 1,000 trained people, it’…

Pondering the under-the-radar legacy of the TV cart on wheels, a simple object as known for its substitute-teacher value as its risk as a tip-over hazard.

Wasm will initially be judged on how efficiently it runs code, but it is the security of the component model that will decide its future.

Messi’s team may have recently won the world cup. However, his bigger victory might just be beating an egg at the game of Instagram. But more on that

A culture of documentation is vital if you want to move fast and break as few things as possible, so why are good docs so rare?

The company self-certified that it met the minimal level of risk.

Early Web3 and crypto pioneers made a bunch of promises that went unfulfilled because they simply weren’t technically possible. But now they are.

Fastly VP Anil Dash talks to us about funding Mastodon, and a new web stack he's floated based on the fediverse + Wasm + Tailscale + SQLite.

As you build a product, you will inevitably get requests for new functionality from users. Here's how to handle feedback without ruining what you've built. #techstartups #featurebloat #featurecreep

In 2023, industry leaders believe that security teams will revamp protocols to take better care of data exfiltration prevention. Data management platform makers will release features designed to spot data theft and make it difficult for people to exfiltrate data.

The Mastodon dashboards I’ve been developing and describing in this series are backed by a Steampipe plugin that translates SQL queries to Mastodon API calls. Like all Steampipe plugins you c…

Laying the groundwork for developer-enabled compliance.

I have three Kindles. One of them is a very old Kindle Fire 8 that I’d largely forgotten about. I charged it up today and discovered it still had an active subscription to THE WIRE magazine o…

A mechanism to drive strategic product discussions based on backlog is a critical tool in the product management toolbox.