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Twelve years ago, I posted The Data Bubble. It began, The tide turned today. Mark it: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Jour…

Photo courtesy of Emad/Stablity.ai via Twitter The Verge reports on the internal challenges at Meta nee Facebook and how company is trying to deal with it. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO…

Many organizations routinely make trade-offs between application quality and a need to deploy code faster, an Applitools survey showed.

What’s been your experience with architecture vs. engineering roles? Are those distinct functions or combined in your organization? How do the roles interact? Does the architecture team hand down holy designs from their ivory tower the engineering team is expected to implement them? Is the architecture and engineering function more combined, where experienced engineers are expected to create an architecture and help put it in place? Ethan Banks and guest Pat Allen share their experiences with architecture and engineering roles from organizations they've worked in.

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Log4Shell remains a national concern because the open-source community cannot continue to shoulder the responsibility of securing this critical asset and vendors are not exercising due care in incorporating open-source components into their products. A comprehensive institutional response to the incentives problem is needed.

From CD-ROMs to Star Wars trailers to YouTube, the video format technology that got pushed off to the side as standardization crept in.

Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer reminds us that the existence of words is no indication of their truth and offers timeless insights on clickbait.

What if you could merge docker images as simply as you merge branches in git? Here's how.

What would you use for a build system in a greenfield project? package.json runners are too slow and language-specific. Bazel, pants, and buck are overkill for most any company. Shell scripts are a good option, but are too freeform to provide basic tools any build system needs (like caching

docker build: The `docker build` command builds Docker images from a Dockerfile and a "context". A build's context is the set of files located in the specified `PATH` or `URL`....

“sad to learn that the DOI was a coordinated effort by publishers to crush PubMed as a free means of archiving and linking papers. "Our consensus was that publishers should be the ones doing the linking" "It was, ofc, a strategic move only, since we had neither plan nor prototype"”

Paul Allen’s Microsoft dollars helped build the Seattle Art Fair. Four years after his death, the art scene is still debating how — and whether — to engage with tech money

By: Christof Leng, SRE Engagements Engineering Lead, Google Tracy Ferrell, Sr. SRE Manager, Google Alex Bligh, Senior Director, SRE, Google Michal Gefen, Engineering Manager, (SRE) Google Betsy Beyer, Technical Writer, Google with help from Salim Virji, Site Reliability Engineer, Google Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is a specialist engineering organization focused on designing, building, […]

On the latest episode of ‘Most Innovative Companies,’ Sonos CEO Patrick Spence shares lessons he learned from 14 years of building BlackBerry.

Here’s why engineers at Meta are supporting a larger community push to stop introducing any new leap seconds.

So many addressing modes, so little space.

Turns out the robots are here to make your job more interesting.

Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies

“one of the last electronics surplus stores in Silicon Valley is closing. another victim of sky-high rent.”

Why screw around writing Verilog when you can earn tons more with Python, Java or Go?

John Gruber recently took [umbrage with Wirecutter’s pick for best laptop][]. Here’s what he wrote: My longstanding complaint about The Wirecutter is that they institutionally feti…

Compared to 1800, we eat less saturated fat and much more processed food and vegetable oils and it does not seem to be good for us: Saturated fats from animal sources declined while polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oils rose. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) rose over the twentieth century in parallel with increased consumption of processed foods, … Continue reading Science and Technology links (July 23 2022)

Hollywood sure loves a good cyber warrior flick, even if they sometimes struggle to make them enjoyable.

Link to: https://web.archive.org/web/20101126211433/http://www.techflash.com/mobile/seattle/2010/10/ads_microsoft_wants_us_to_pull_our_heads_out_of_our_phones.html

AI/ML solutions have matured enough to be very useful at helping DevOps and developers manage the flood of data and info from the firehose.

It’s not common for cable networks to pivot to traditional broadcast networks, but it’s been known to happen—especially if it can be directly monetized.

If there is one job that system architects are always doing, it is to make highly complex data and the applications that chew on it easier to use, thus