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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

In the past decade, we've seen the rise of powerful social networks of unprecedented scale, connecting millions or even billions of people who can now communicate almost instantaneously. But many of the promises that were made by the creators of the earliest social networking technologies have gone unfulfilled. We'll take a look at some of the unexamined costs, both cultural and social, of the way the web has evolved.

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Bill Joy went to Aspen to think small. His latest little idea: dynamite the computer industry as we know it. Wired: What do you see as your job? Joy: I like to create technology dislocations. How much dislocation they ultimately create depends on how well they are executed by the organization that I have some […]

Pete Corey is an independent consultant, web developer, and writer based out of Denver, Colorado. He writes weekly articles on software development and his eternal quest to build Cool Stuff™.

Inspired by Tom Whitwell's annual list (here is 2022's), I kept a list of interesting things I learned this year. There are suppos

I have a real bee in my bonnet today, following a lunchtime conversation with an idiot who is convinced that the software industry.

We analyzed Digital Ocean to understand where its traffic comes from, how it grew so fast, and the marketing decisions made along the way.

Everything anyone could ever want to watch is probably streaming right now. Which services you choose depends on whether you’re a Walmart person or a Wawa.

One of the great duds of console gaming history.

Count 'em on one hand.

Here are four examples of how open source creates a more accessible environment for those on the neurodivergent spectrum.

A few months ago, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the “Global Freedom of Expression” program at Columbia University discussing decentralized social media and regulations aro…

Here is a look at six vital technology trends that have gained momentum in today’s hyper-digital world and that will shape the coming year.

To optimize business applications, DevOps teams must understand the full potential of microservices and event-driven architecture.

Supply chain security is critical for software to run well. Here are the top 5 supply chain security trends you should know.

We made significant improvements to the throughput of wireguard-go, which is the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. What this means for you: improved performance of the Tailscale client on Linux. We intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard as well.

A few tips on how to stay “surprisingly responsive” from a busy software architect.

Walled gardens can be great: we all like it when Stuff Just Works because a single company oversees all its elements. Walled gardens can be terrible: when all of our data, our social relations and our educational, romantic, professional and family ties are trapped inside a company’s silo and the...

From ChatGPT:

Let’s say you’re writing some front-end code. How many options are there for programming languages? I’d say there’s three camps. There’s plain old JavaScript, there’s languages that compile to WebAssembly, and there’s languages that compile to JavaScript. Plain old JavaScript requires the least tooling, at the cost of being rather frustrating to debug and even more annoying to read. It can be a great, low friction option to start, but beyond some obsession around “minimalism”1, I don’t see many benefits.

[By a professor, for students. As of August 2021, this post has been visited by more than 750,000 readers from at least 135 countries and te...

In an end of year email, Eike Schmidt the director of the Uffizi has directed employees to better observe rules of grammar and punctuation.

When imitations flood the market, the expert creativity that acted as a catalyst is diluted.

The C++ 2023 standard won't have an asynchronous algorithm feature called senders and receivers.