Technology Commentary

A series of myths have emerged around CVEs that give them a bad reputation, which spawns hesitation to report and increases the odds that vulnerabilities will go undetected.

Thank Petrov we avoided nuclear war

Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.

The value in Cloud IDEs will shift to the compute and infrastructure layers, says Codeanywhere co-founder, making them more like a PaaS.

Having covered Web3 for almost a year, I should have known that “crypto,” “DAO,” “DeFi,” “blockchain” and other terms associated with the future of the

Language wars, huh, what are they good for?

Notes and scales

Code names, for internal projects, are an easily avoided, unforced error. Naming things that way makes everything harder for new people, partner teams and th...

Every company wanted to be Apple. Then reality set in.

Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper on building the open metaverse.

Never underestimate someone’s ability

Infusing artificial intelligence into DevOps will alleviate a lot of headaches. Of course, this means working with AI.

Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f...

We like to think the git config repository is equivalent to how things change, but in reality, there is a gap between these static definitions and what actually happens.

Back in the distant web past, Jemma Gura used to run a site called Prate, which was always defined as “Prate™ Computer Channel.” I always took the “channel” thing to heart &…

A revealing interview with the industrial designer in his studio

The Magnavox Odyssey², a groundbreaking video game console, never reached the heights of the Atari 2600—but it lived plenty of extra lives.

For some big companies, the goal is to act more like a startup.

There are two things in this world that I don't understand Serverless and Serverless. And part of that could be for me...

What to learn in order to not become obsolete as a software developer, and then being forced into early retirement from programming? What platforms to prefer for building products that last with minimal maintenance?

Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches to decentralization, and explores what Internet standards efforts can do to address it.

Green status updates, hide the red problems

LAMINA1 is a layer 1 blockchain for the open Metaverse. Work with us today.

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own.