Technology Commentary

I truly loathe Markdown Truly But given the widespread use of Markdown it might seem strange that I have such aversion to it If you somehow really like it or are so used to it by now you might

They conducted extensive research into the personality traits of great software engineers. This was the result.

"At Google scale, million-to-one chances happen all the time," observed Google Cloud Reliability Advocate Steve McGhee.

Berners-Lee is working on a new data-sharing standard, Solid, to deliver on his Web 3.0 vision, and a company, Inrupt, to commercialize it.

Many people are looking for alternatives to Twitter. Can the IndieWeb step up? How can we build better social media for people without technical knowledge?

Posted on 2022-11-12

Elon has started a monthly $8 fee for verified twitter users. A verifiable credential-based solution would be a better way to increase trust in the platform by authenticating users as real people without attendent privacy concerns.

Monokle Cloud helps engineers improve the quality of Kubernetes deployments by providing powerful features of open source Monokle Desktop for free in any browser.

The State of the Octoverse explores a year of change with new deep dives into developer productivity, security, and how we build communities on GitHub.

Hi! Tell us about who you are and what you do. I’m Bozhidar and I love computers in general and programming in particular. My fanatic devotion to Emacs is known world-wide. I spend a lot of my (free) time on GitHub, contributing to various open-source Ruby, Clojure and Emacs Lisp projects. My most notable open-source projects are RuboCop (a linter/formatter for Ruby) and CIDER (a Clojure IDE for Emacs). I’m a constant learner when it comes to programming and I love playing with new programming languages - right now I’m learning OCaml.

It’s all about function, not form.

Management of our data requires us to think differently, to stop perceiving infrastructure as boring and to risk being perceived as geeks in mixed company.

Software stacks are a dime a dozen these days, and picking the right one can seem somewhere between difficult and impossible. But while some people say choosing the “right tool” doesn’t matter, we think there is an advantage in choosing the best stack for the job.   Although it may take a bit of legwork to […]

Explore the top programming languages on GitHub—and what languages are growing the fastest.

It never should have begun.

We've often been accused of being unambitious with Basecamp. Why didn't you just raise a bunch of venture capital and go for The Big Time? Why were you taking profits when you could have invested in growth? Don't you want to own a unicorn? Don't you want to be a billionaire?! This is the Silicon Valley way. Ride the big money to the mo...

Doing commoditized things in-house makes sense at some scales. But it's not a political act; it's an economic one. Don't let nostalgia convince you otherwise.

Digital advertising has turned millions of people and organizations into not just the target of ads, but the advertisers as well. But it doesn’t easily answer the obvious question: Did that a…

TrustCor Systems, which vouches for the legitimacy of websites, has connections to contractors for U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement, according to security researchers, documents and interviews.

As the proportion of bot traffic across the internet grows, organizations are becoming more proactive and investing in bot management.

A Jamstack Conference panel explained why developers should embrace the edge and how it will change development for the better.

A look at what incidents are, why you need to care about response, how to use an incident response platform and what should be done afterward.

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly changed the way we utilize the web.

Protocol as investigation and critique.