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Evan Prodromou talks about ActivityPub's creation, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for developers in the fediverse.

We’ve seen a boom in programming language tooling in the past few years. Language servers, formatters, and linters have become commonplace in most languages. I’d call it a golden age, but I suspect this is only the beginning. Fulfilling Developer Expectations This explosion has in turn raised the bar for developer experience. No longer is it satisfactory to provide a basic syntax highlighting scheme for a programming language and call it editor support.

Does Microsoft or Elon Musk have the best shot at getting a WeChat-like super app on the iPhone first? It may become a battle.

Today, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founders of 37signals, discuss their chapter in Rework on why estimating is not the road to completing projects and what has helped them get things done in their business for over twenty years.

I was determined to write my Mastodon #introduction today. To get started I used the tag search in the dashboard I’m building. The idea was to look at a bunch of other #introduction posts to …

Rackspace is in a crater right now, on fire. So are many of its customers. I’m one of them. What happened, Rackspace says, was “the result of a ransomware incident.” Damaged, lost…

I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they…

Introduction Project Goals What are we trying to build? Setting up a basic single node client Adding Replication Adding Sharding Can…

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Biometrics are supposed to be a fundamental pillar of modern authentication. Unfortunately, for a wide range of reasons and in a variety of ways, many biometric implementations are wildly inaccurate.

Popular Science's 35th annual Best of What's New awards include the James Webb Space Telescope—and 99 other technologies shaping our future.

Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.

Keep the state of multiple nodes synchronized by using a write-ahead log that is replicated to all the cluster nodes.

A short rundown on virtualization vs cloud computing.

Besides firing most of Twitter's technical staff, new owner and CEO Elon Musk has dropped support for Twitter's open-source efforts.

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The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.

AWS is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors.

Cybersecurity is transforming to address an expanding list of threats. Here are the six cybersecurity trends driving that transformation in 2023.

Hey friends, A few weeks ago I was scrolling on LinkedIn and came across a post by Brad Harper, who runs the UK-based design recruitment firm Design Truth and hosts an industrial design podcast of the same name. He posed a simple question: “Why do industrial designers earn less than their digital counterparts?” The fact […]

We’ve noted for a long time how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide …

If Musk gives up on it, there’s a way to keep Twitter online, useful, and, crucially, fun.

Just as America transformed the lives of its citizens and its economy with its 20th century electrification projects, we need universal broadband for all to do the same in the 21st Century.

In the ’90s, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, suggested something to help us sort through information.

These examples show how different kinds of sustainability influence each other in open source.

The story of the Curta Calculator, a stylish portable mechanical calculator that doesn’t use electricity and has a surprisingly dramatic origin story.

There’s a great post by Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive blog with the title “Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books“. He makes an important point about the work involved in provid…