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In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without it.

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There’s nothing like working with cloud managed services. Everything is a breeze, it’s quick and easily monitored. But what happens when…

I added nix support for the blog's development environment, including support for both the upcoming flakes feature and current/legacy nix. Here we dive into why it's neat and how it was done.

Open sourcing your core business product is a bad idea. If the project you've built starts competing too directly with your core offering, you will be left dissatisfied with it regardless of its success.

Work somewhere or do something you can be passionate about. Passion will get you to work early and eager, then keep you focused for years…

Git was born from the collaboration problems in the Linux kernel. Nearly a decade later, new problems arose when Kubernetes (the operating system of the cloud) brought open-source collaboration to a new level. I saw the pain points of git (and GitHub) firsthand working on Kubernetes open-source. Will a new

From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all

'Play' monkeys and cats like 'little electronic toys' that yawn, hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleep on command

Data science, AI/ML, and HPC have been influential in tackling complex issues like the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, these kinds of large-scale,

The biggest news in the camera industry this month is that Nikon is reportedly halting development of new SLR cameras, marking the end of a 63-year run..

Rarely ever one page long.

Author Pamela Paul recalls what the world was like before it was connected — and how privacy and personal memory have transformed since.

Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too.

Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking.

I was listening Linux Downtime episode 51 and meanwhile it was nice to hear that Copilot has been helpful for open source developers.. It still worries me.

Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We've found critical vulnerabilities allowing us…

After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.

via Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org Let’s start with what happened to TV. For decades, all TV signals were “over the air,” and free to be watched by anyone with a TV and a…

In the days of the Concorde -- thus far the world's only supersonic passenger jet -- noise complaints from residents kept the aircraft from faster-than-sound tr

Toaster vs. Smartphone

The majority of CEOs in the U.S. and UK said it’s acceptable to release software without proper testing. Less than half of IT pros agreed.

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Programmers in the US are well-paid and companies report difficulty hiring programmers. At the same time, while it’s less reported, there are a lot of people who are good at programming but can’t get programming jobs.There’s a simple explanation, and it’s one that I’ve validated in several ways since realizing it: companies only want to […]

If there’s one ‘takeaway’ from my 50-year IT career, it is to always use the right tool for each scenario

GDE Enrique Fernandez Guerra on open sourcing his NGO HelpDev.

The 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey is out!And what’s fascinating to me is which popular programming languages are either loved or dreaded.1Th...

There’s almost always a better variable name or value than ‘foo’. It’s useful as a placeholder, but it almost never belongs in production code, even and…