Technology Commentary

Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.

A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.

Etymology is fun!

I have been immersed in the Mastodon universe since Thanksgiving. I have been growing my network for both my personal and professional domains, and have been playing with the Mastodon API daily. I have been slowly automating much of my curation, posting, filtering, and other information activities I historically conduct via Twitter, but now I am automating using the Mastodon API. To help me automate using the Mastodon API, I am using a single OpenAPI definition, from which I generate a single reference collection, and use to spawn a mix of capability collections. These collections do one thing for me, helping me accomplish common tasks like posting a message, pulling statuses, and searching for users. I then manually run these collections, schedule using monitors, and bake into CI/CD pipelines for a variety of projects. I have one set of collections I use, and then when I switch between the kinlane.com domain and the apievangelist.com domain, I simply use environments to make the switch—demonstrating the beauty and usefulness of federated APIs (and Postman).

learn now — success later

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you accidentally pushed secret keys or huge files while using Git? Did you know that removing those keys even 20 seconds after might be already too late?

There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit and loss statement, but there’s one narrow topic that causes a surprising amount of frustration between engineering and finance teams: how do you capitalize software engineering costs?

GPTZero: The Future of Plagiarism Detection

Doors, in a variety of shapes and styles.

Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower knows full well what deprives software developers of their superpower. | Software developers' 'kryptonite' weakens their coding superpower, according to Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower

Today I’d like to ponder something Kevin Kelly – a fellow co-founding editor of Wired – said to me roughly 30 years ago. During one editorial conversation or another, Kevin said &…

This call is open to all, but is focused on implementers, following the IETF's rough "consensus and running code" ethos. The IPVM is an effort to add content-addressed computation to IPFS....

Whether you're just getting started with DevOps in your organization or simply want to improve your existing culture, consider these tips and how they relate to your organization's future.

These historical codebases built the foundation of today’s computer technology

How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

In this article, we will look at some of the key differentiators between the roles of platform engineers and software engineers.

In this article, I will explain how I used GPT-3 to integrate AI into a simple productivity application. Before I go into the code and…

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into a tawdry reality show in which he is the star, the villain, and the comedian, everyone has been talking about a new decentralized web. New …

Enterprises will continue their cloud journeys, but they want to get smarter with their cloud consumption. That demands simplification, and with it, rethinking how the modern data stack is packaged and delivered.

No staff and no equipment ready after over a decade of nuclear denial

Research firm predicts this will be the year that citizen developers — empowered by low code/no code tools — create a major security breach.

Machine learning uses data structures that don't always resemble the ones used in standard computing. You'll need to process your data first if you want efficient machine learning.

A question: what’s the difference between nearline disk storage and an Active Archive system only using disk drives? An answer: none.

Wasm is now enjoying as much (if not more) success beyond the browser than within it. And this trend underlies much of what will come in 2023.

It's dark and funny and unlike anything else

In the early 1980s, when the Apple II came out, a company called Franklin made a knock-off version of the same computer. It was a pretty blatant copy, which Apple wasn’t happy about, but the law wa…