Technology Commentary

Attacking each piece of the MTTR equation and finding ways to shorten each step could be a good place to start improving.

Now that everyone seems interested in blogging again, here’s a list of early and influential bloggers that shaped the genre. Maybe you can borrow some pointers.

Just last week I predicted that Google would leverage ChatGPT to create a conversational interface to its search business, and that Microsoft would do the same in the enterprise data market. I brie…

I’ve come across any number of interesting startups in my ongoing grok of the mobile world (related posts: 1, 2, 3).  And the pace has quickened as founders have begun to reach out to me to s…

Developments in AI, Biology, Regulation, and More

Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.

In the last few days I've been fortunate to witness an interesting chapter in the Internet's history, and I'm trying to compile a timeline of what has happened while the memories are still reasonably fresh. This is incomplete and a work in progress; I'll be updating it, and n...

A post by Stuart Langridge (sil)

Hello and happy new year! It’s 2023, and Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use. Sun Valley has finally arrived, and it’s all about a lon…

We have all successfully completed another revolution around the Sun. […]

It wasn't all that long ago when I was something of a dab hand at software design. I'm happy to blow my own trumpet

Get started with Git in 2023 with these helpful articles.

USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.

I accepted your imperfections. You gave me some perfect storms.

A review of the old Katherine Hepburn film by a software engineer

A review of the legendary 80s Science-fantasy epic

The Computer History Archive Project recently shared this vintage educational video on YouTube. The video shows in impressively clear and concise detail exactly how long distance calls were made in…

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

Going into really far too much detail about the use of computers in the mid-90s Sandra Bullock Conspiracy thriller - The Net.

January 3, 2023 — Greater than 99% of the time symbols are read and written on surfaces with spines. You cannot get away from it. Yet still, amongst programming language designers there exists some sort of

Whether you’re developing your Cybersecurity career, or searching for talent - Security means different things to different people

How to set up your GitHub profile so that you stand out

Here’s why.

Lessons I learned working inside the CTO's office of a database company.

For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report monthly engineering metrics, what should I actually include in the report? Any discussion about measuring engineering organizations quickly unearths strong opinions. Anything but sprint points! Just use SPACE!

For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.