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"Herbal notes." "We feel that crypto has abandoned the early days of organic blockchain crafting when bored math geeks would mine 10 Bitcoins in an afternoon and then blow it all on IPAs and pizza later that night," said 26-year-old Hash & Moon co-founder Cody Silas. "Today's Bitcoin investor is savvy and looking for a hand-crafted crypto currency to launder money or pay to have someone ...

Bill Joy’s six Webs are:

In 2022, my visual vocabulary found appreciation for error and blur, and, more importantly, I learned that reality is just a perception.

We really enjoyed this recent interview with top A.I. researcher Yejin Choi from The New York Times. It goes a long way to temper a lot of the hype and fear surrounding A.I. while also shining ligh…

Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires

Biggest tech trends of 2023

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Let’s start our 2023 predictions off with some thoughts on artificial intelligence. With ChatGPT, Silicon Valley seems to have gotten a bit of its mojo back. After two decades spent simmering…

I love advertising – particularly digital advertising. There, I said it. Was that so hard? Well, yes, the industry I’ve partnered with for more than three decades can be very difficult …

My first two long form prediction posts focused on big topics – artificial intelligence and digital advertising. This one, my last, will focus on a grab bag of market-related topics that have…

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

ActivityPub isn't just what we've been doing over the Christmas break

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been engaged in as […]

How modern software became completely dominated by self-contained platforms

How is this possible.

Hollywood's "Silicon Age" of AI filmmaking is almost here, and we are not ready

A grassroots AI art cloud called Stable Horde allows you to tap into other PCs GPUs to make AI art, or contribute your own to the cause.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Go expert, I might get some things wrong. Background Golang's been a player in cloud-native software since it's…

The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

Have you ever wondered how modern source control systems manage to automatically merge different versions of a file? Were you…

In Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I’m building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list…

A conversation that's been ongoing between myself and many other developers I know over the last few years has been around the question....

Plus: A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Standards-based interoperability makes a comeback, sort of.

In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride , it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...

Measuring development team productivity is an extremely tricky problem. But it's one that comes up time and time again