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A problem with the hiring pipeline and the industry

Strategic Roadmaps and Data: Part one

Before you port everything to containers, consider if you need to; think about if it offers any benefits and what the ROI of such a move is.

Since the industry realised how the 5G Network Architecture will look like, Network Slicing has been touted as the killer business case that...

And how should we fix it if it is?

Standards, like RSS for podcasts, have enabled emerging technologies to spread far and wide in the information age by making it easy for…

Adding another feature is cheap compared to the benefits it offers to new users or existing ones.Once a feature is added, it is almost never removed.When enough features are added, the system break…

That’s the flyer for the first salon in our Beyond the Web Series at the Ostrom Workshop, here at Indiana University. You can attend in person or on Zoom. Register here for that. It’s a…

In one of his typically trenchant posts, titled Attentive, Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) compares human attention to oil, meaning an extractive commodity: We used to refer to an information econom…

Measuring the popularity of different Vector Databases. By Ben Lorica and Leo Meyerovich. Introduction Vector databases and vector search are on the radar of a growing number of technical teams. A key driver is that advances in neural networks have made dense vector representations of data more common. Interest has also grown due to theContinue reading "The Vector Database Index"

We’re fueling a healthy Internet by supporting big ideas that keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. What will you build?   Mozilla and t

Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.

What Microsoft Collaborative Apps are and why they matter: An explainer.

The law is simple to describe, fair and useful: It should be as easy to unsubscribe from an online service as it is to sign up. Other than powerful brand bullies, who is against this? It took me fi…

Cooking is something many of us love to do at home, but it can also be challenging. Find how Arduino can make the cooking process easier.

Back in 2014, when Webpack was first released, the JavaScript ecosystem was quite different. Today, times have changed.

A few weeks ago, I started a discussion at r/experienceddevs with the question, “Has a corporate engineering blog made you want to join the company?” I wanted to share some key findings: The majority of experienced developers who responded to the thread applied for a job or joined a company after learning more about it […]

Another (rightful) victim of Apple’s component cutting

Boing Boing contributor Clive Thompson has a specialty search engine which allows you to search on public domain books published prior to 1924. Clive is a big proponent of “rewilding” o…

Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just like many startups, they also balanced equity incentives with other mechanisms that would be familiar to a startup employee today, such as bonuses. These...

Saturday afternoon as I was working in the yard, I found a padded yellow envelope sitting on the hood of my truck, and immediately knew what it was: a letter from my friend Phil, who I first met on a rainy Sunday morning many years ago when he was locked behind the gate of the empty lot next to us and I luckily knew the padlock code. Phil, whose real name is not Phil, has lived for more than a decade in an abandoned building not far from here, at the edge of an industrial site near the river. He is a gifted maker who crafts useful objects from the things he finds, and a book lover with whom I have been carrying on an exchange for close to a decade. I made my last drop to him on last year’s freakishly hot Christmas Day,

In the last decade there have been enormous advances in infrastructure and ops, so why does it suck to build stuff? That’s the question Tanmai Gopal kept asking himself before founding his company, Hasura. Now, as Hasura’s CEO he’s channeling his chaotic energy in order to solve this problem.

Posted on 2022-09-14

A number of new artificial intelligence systems turn simple text prompts into striking images.

The explosion of AI-generated art has taken the internet by storm, and is poised to continue growing for a long time. In turn, that's sparked a lot of conversation (and a lot of backlash) about the im

A cell phone causes me more pain.

Why Hollywood is Destroying Itself With Reboots & What Can Be Done About It