Technology Commentary

How the learning curve of a developer can be correlated to the scalability of a startup.

If you want reach and engagement, optimizing for small screens is usually the way to go. There are more mobile devices in the world than we can count, and large numbers of people spend their days c…

The internet doesn’t have to be this way. It seems like the structure we live with and struggle with and sometimes work against is pre-ordained and obvious, but much of it is the result of th…

Our industry deserves a complete retrospective into the incidents behind the criminal case against Uber’s former Chief Security Officer.

By Alex Willemyns Two of China’s biggest chipmakers, Yangtze Memory Technologies and Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment, are among 36 Chinese companies effectively banned from importing component…

how developers should organize ourselves to do our best work.

Having a reliable data backup strategy is a crucial step for compliance with regulations and achieving business continuity.

A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work without getting distracted by more interesting or energizing work? Why can’t you build a team that operates rationally to the businesses interests rather than their own?

A finite element reminder.

The word "blockchain" has become quite common since its introduction in 2008. After beinginitially embraced by the tech community

A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability

Science developed out of philosophy. Before we had Copernicus’s planetary tables or Newton’s equations of motion, we had Aristotle’s rhetoric. That medieval natural philosophy was wrong, but it still...

The last reports count 23.9 million software developers a number that is expected to grow to 28.7 million in 2024. What languages will develop most

Pitches storage, cloudy software compliance to twitchy EU customers thinking about GDPR

A look at past predictions and Cantrill’s expectations for the future. He’s focusing less on things that will be created and more on the evolution of things that already exist.

Customer relationships don't have to last forever. Keeping your hands wrapped around every customer will only lead to trying to evolve into something you're not is the death knell for your business.

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.Only the original author may remove content they produce.Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter …

Some days, everything seem like it’s hard, and getting harder. Credentials, and configurations, and audits, and provisioning, and checklists…

All you ever wanted to learn about websites in one place. Number of websites worldwide (updated), stats, facts, data, charts, and much more.

After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I'm so proud of what we built—and I'm still proud and awed by

“Stop introduce more technology. Just use X for everything. It will be much simpler.”