10% of the Top 1 Million Sites are Dead
Top 1 million domains? More like the top 1 million lies
Why Digital News Outlets Haven’t Nailed Alt-Story-Form Journalism
Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.
The Future of the Cloud? Make it Optional
Most apps today are cloud-only, but why? Why can't apps send data directly between devices? Why isn't the cloud optional?
Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?
In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American.
August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com)
A work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009.
Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?
The Most Important Database You've Never Heard of
The Preprocessor Iceberg Meme
If Software Ain’t Broke, You Still Have to Fix It
If you don’t change a running system, it will break itself
El optimismo de los influencers en IT
Take heed: these are events surrounding an Argentinean IT influencer. You might extrapolate it to your local version of the software industry. And yes, it involves Twitter, drama and politics. In the…
Nikon will reportedly join Canon in ending development on high-end DSLR cameras
Smaller, lighter mirrorless cameras have mostly caught up to DSLR image quality.
Money that moves at the speed of information (Ep. 462)
The home team chats with Devraj Varadhan, SVP of Engineering at Ripple, about crypto companies bracing for economic uncertainty, how Ripple’s solutions might help to expand financial inclusion in underserved markets, and why companies should take the long view rather than getting distracted by hype.
Big Ten Blame
The Big Ten’s recent expansion is being blamed on Fox and ESPN, but it is actually an example of content extracting maximum value through consolidation
You will always have more Problems than Engineers.
How to deal with a sad reality.
Where Do Data Practitioners Prefer to Collaborate? GitHub
Although the collaboration tools space is getting more crowded, machine learning and data practitioners still prefer GitHub to other tools, says the latest survey by Kaggle. #MLOps #ML #AI #datascience #GitHub
What Makes a Senior Engineer? Writing Software vs Building Systems
Junior Engineers care about writing Software. They value code quality, employ best practices, try to adopt cutting-edge technologies. They invest a lo
The Case For (and Against) Software Engineering Titles
Should we have them?
-Page 1- The Pay Phone Museum
Ghost In the Machine
In Search of the Philosopher's Keyboard
What if your keyboard had access to your memories? What if it could complete your thoughts, not based on what you'd previously typed or learning generic responses or dumb rules, but based on a personal database of places, books, web pages, and notes of all kinds?
Report: 95% of employees say IT issues decrease workplace productivity and morale
Organizations can improve DEX in a remote work environment – it will just take time, strategy and full company support.
Doug's Home On The Web
Writings from a Philadelphia Software Engineer...
Ray Kurzweil Wants to Upload Your Brain to the Cloud
I don’t think I’ll be sent to another Ray Kurzweil talk. And I am not going to merge my brain with the cloud though, if I am still around when people start doing that.
SFC urges developers to quit GitHub
The SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) has quit GitHub and urges other developers to follow.
Coding vs Programming: An In-depth Comparison
Coding and programming may seem the same, but the two terms vary a lot. In our article, we see how coding vs. programming compares in depth.
Why specs matter [dive into mark]
Why Do Modern Computers Have So Many Marketing Stickers?
How Intel turned the PC industry into its collective co-op marketing partner through a strong sticker game, an idea Microsoft used to push Windows sales.
For the Love of the Wild Web 🖤
Beneath tech’s shiny veneer, there are engineers, coders, and skilled advocates like EFF fighting for the users. Member support allows EFF to continue bringing nuanced technical, legal, and policy expertise to generation-defining questions that don't have easy answers.
Can You Live without Kubernetes?
The container orchestrator may be popular, but it's also complex. Here are the pros and cons of alternatives like Nomad, Cycle, and more. #Kubernetes #K8s #containers #cloudnative #Nomad #Cycle #Hashicorp
The Cultural Changes Zero Trust Security Demands
Zero trust means forcing security decision-makers to think more like CEOs — or to get CEOs involved. Check out this excerpt from our latest ebook, sponsored by Torq. #security #DevSecOps #zerotrust