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This assumption is the core of post-cyberpunk’s body politic. We are subtly conditioned to believe that the optimal way to fix the world is to fix the system — luring us into a state of realism...

The web is now an irrelevant alternative and we must do better

The FCC has ordered the excommunication of one carrier that failed to comply with new anti-robocalling rules — perhaps the first of many.

Posted on 2022-11-22

GraphQL is designed to handle numerous data use cases and and is particularly we suited to adjust to potentially changing data structures and content. But there are situations where the challenge is quite the opposite: we want to be able to expose harmonized and stable schemas and querying mechanisms across disparate data sources or even metadata standards. While I’m still learning about GraphQL, I believe the specification also has the potential to meet such requirements.

Verifiable credentials have a number of use cases in healthcare. Using them can reduce the administrative burden that people experience at the hands of the bureaucracies that inevitably develop.

Five years ago, I was all-in on Mastodon. I deleted my Twitter account, set up a Mastodon instance, and encouraged my friends to join. A year later, I wrote my own Mastodon client in an attempt to …

After posting the following AI-generated images, I got private replies asking the same question: “Can you tell me how you made these?” So, here I will provide the background and “how to” of creatin…

We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. Mostly because of our high-documentation, low-meeting work culture. We'll tell you exactly what that means.

After countless years pondering the idea, the FCC has finally announced that it’s going to politely ask the nation’s lumbering telecom monopolies to affix a sort of “nutrition lab…

I was frying a couple of dozen walnut crunch when I first got in trouble at Tim Horton’s.Tim Horton’s is a donut and coffee place, and I worked the...

A discovery at University of Limerick in Ireland has revealed for the first time that unconventional brain-like computing at the tiniest scale of atoms and molecules is possible.

Brooks is famous for many things. Many people know him best as the author of The Mythical Man-Month, his musings on software engineering and why it's so very hard. Some of his prescriptions seem quaint today -- no one these days would print out documentation on microfiche every night to distribute to developers -- but his observations about the problems of development remain spot-on. But he did so much more.

Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.

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On the time for rest.

Refugees and low-income populations are at the frontline in absorbing the risks and failures of Web3 technological development such as cryptocurrencies.

A good lead programmer is a bridge between your development team and the other business units in your organization.

Like most things online today, I am striving to not be emotional about what is happening with Twitter right now. I have signed up with an existing Mastodon node, with the intent to set up my own server instances within the kinlane.com and apievangelist.com domains. I believe in federation. I like the way I am able to manage my own email, news feeds, and now social feeds within my own domain. This is definitely the future I envision. However, I will not be giving up on Twitter anytime soon. I understand why folks want to exit the toxicity of this environment. My wife has left and will not be coming back. I support you all in doing what works for you. But I can’t help but thinking that we are all just validating the playbook of the toxic bros, which they will adapt to the Fediverse, and that it might make more sense for us to step up, push back, and work to make Twitter less toxic—-let me explain a little bit.

There’s no competition for cookbooks on making food out of soccer balls and hockey pucks. There’s no competition for software that charges you to find out the temperature on Mars. There…

Steve Sanderson takes us on a tour of the history of web development, ending with some practical takeaways for the future of the web.

Despite decades in school, how many of us were taught the best ways to study?

This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost

Why Big Tech’s glory days are coming to a close.

Once Jeff Bezos's pet project the mounting losses and massive job cuts underscore a failure in the hardware business model the company once pioneered.