Will Twitter Fail?
You've Never Been Taught How to Learn - Scott H Young
Despite decades in school, how many of us were taught the best ways to study?
ISP Column - November 2022
The End of Localhost: All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t just a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset.
Why Big Tech’s glory days are coming to a close.
Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on 'a wasted opportunity.'
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.
ZeroBanana – Senior Engineers are Living in the Future
Four Thoughts On Rejection: We Can Learn From it, If We Let Ourselves
How rejection shapes the way we think, for good and bad—and if we let it, we take important lessons from it. (Tylenol helps in this process, we hear.)
The Forty-Year Programmer
Technical Debt: The Math Behind The Biggest Obstacle to Modernization
In this webinar moderated by Bob Quillin, author Mike Amundsen, and vFunction CTO, Amir Rapson, discuss the math behind calculating technical debt, and where to start when theory meets practice.
Cozy Data
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
Some thoughts on Mastodon
It is, by far, the fastest-growing social network in history, growing more than 20% in about a week. And yet it didn’t stutter much. How can this be? It’s a network in the real internet…
The future of content is AI - A Beautiful Mind
I personally never counted myself as a content creator but apparently, I always have been counted as one. Why you may ask? The answer is easy. I have a habit of filming my work, writing blog posts (mostly in Persian), posting my work and code on twitter and stuff. All of these are behaviors from … Continue reading "The future of content is AI"
Bus factor of top GitHub projects
What is the bus factor for the top one thousand GitHub repositories with the most stars?
FCC orders ISPs to show broadband 'nutrition labels' with all fees and limits
ISPs must soon show a "nutrition label" with all fees, catches, and caps clearly stated for any plan you're considering, the FCC ruled.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Departed Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Launching a New Social Network
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claims to be closer to launching Bluesky Social, a new "decentralized social network" that allegedly seeks to reclaim user data.
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. And while the collapse of
Debuggable explanations
I’ve been reviewing Greg Wilson’s current book project, Software Design in Python. Like the earlier JavaScript-based Software Design by Example it’s a guided tour of tools, techni…
The future of GPS
The government's Global Positioning System program has been wildly successful, and more technology enhancements are on the way. However, the success of GPS may help explain why it's in peril. @Enterprisenxt
DuckDuckGo’s anti-tracking Android tool could be “even more powerful” than iOS
App Tracking Protection blocks outbound traffic to listed tracking firms.
Lets Talk Mastodon
My observations on Mastodon, based on my past experience and how it has triggered my nostalgia.
Out-Teach Your Competition | Rework | Episode 40
Throughout its tenure, 37signals has consistently grown without spending much on marketing.
How to address challenges with community metrics
Consider this advice for addressing the organizational and technical challenges of implementing community health metrics for your own community.
How open source powers innovation
Where do people come together to make cutting-edge invention and innovation happen?
Low Code vs. No Code
Both low code and no code automation platforms allow faster application builds and applications builds where they may not have been possible at all.
Copy-Protection Schemes: Weird Formats, Wacky Encryption Tactics
A few copy-protection schemes, of varying levels of success, you’ve possibly run into over the years. Don’t lose your code wheel.
Discuss the problem, not the solution
As a tech guy, I love to discuss technologies. And as discussions go, it’s generally the comparison kind: JVM vs. Net, Java vs. Kotlin, Go…
The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off)
Solving the Simple Case