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Apple announced it i discontinuing the iPod, and Google annoucned its new Pixel 6A smarthone will not have a headphone jack.

A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.

We can do better than writing HTML manually, but there are no developer-focused solutions.

Our experience implementing OpenTelemetry at Equinix Metal offers some valuable insights in both the technical and cultural realms.

Cable companies survived the great unbundling thanks to selling Internet service; they may be best place to make the bundle of the future.

When digital identity ceases to be a pain in the ass, we can thank Kim Cameron and his Seven Laws of Identity, which he wrote in 2004, formally published in early 2005, and gently explained and put…

When we want to visualize the relationship between two continuous variables, the go-to plot is the scatterplot. It’s a very intuitive visualization tool that allows us to directly look at the data…

If the intergalactic spacecrafts from our favorite sci-fi shows were to incorporate the core beliefs of Zero Trust when securing their critical systems, they would have successfully prevented a substantial amount of systems attacks and malfunctions.

Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more respect, a feeling of progress – and even if you care deeply about other things (your product, your users, etc), you can’t really avoid caring about promotion as well. This post talks a bit about the (well-known) issues with this type of culture, and suggests some alternatives for startups not looking to replicate it.

We launched Pebble on Kickstarter 10 years ago today! It was an amazing ride and I learned a lot from the experience. Story time…

Eric Migicovsky, a co-founder of the now-defunct smartwatch company, writing about why his company failed: I struggled over and over to define a strong long term vision for what Pebble as a company would accomplish. In some ways we were spoiled…when our Kickstarter in 2012 was super successful, we never had to go through the...

This twitter thread blew up on twitter yesterday and I thought I’d go over some of the author’s points in a longer format so we can clear…

What are engineers actually spending their time on? What do they want to do more of and less of? We surveyed 600 software engineers to find out.

A few ways cathode ray tubes were used that you might not have been aware of by simply watching the boob tube.

How do you share the wealth with your employees without going public? SAIC created an internal stock market that outperforms Wall Street.

KarTrak, an innovation originally built for the rail system, was quickly discarded by train operators. But without it, we wouldn’t have modern barcodes.

If you work with cloud technologies — whether that be developing, deploying, maintaining, or other roles — you know that there are not enough professionals in the market with these skills. Those who hire cloud professionals are likely even more acutely aware of this challenge. While it may seem surprising, cloud technology adoption is continuing […]

We spoke with Open source software developer and advocate Evan Prodromou about setting up a decentralized open source Twitter killer.

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“Why I like shell scripts Every machine has bash installed Other languages change faster Maintenance cost of bash scripts is lower Figured out something in the terminal? Paste it into a bash script verbatim Perfect glue language To glue together commands, nothing beats bash”

This is the reverse post of my highly popular Top 5 Worst Programming Languages post. 1 C A language for getting things done. It's finished and final. It will not change. There will be no new surprises, no new operators, and no unpublished packages. There are just source files. Write, compile, ship, repeat. You used it...

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The home team talks about Elon Musk’s big purchase, what counts as art, and why engineers become managers for the wrong reasons.

What Really Happened: Steve Jobs @ Xerox PARC '79

I found a really exciting video lecture by Guy L. Steele that I'd like to share with you. The title of the lecture is "Growing a Language". The main thing Guy Steele asks during the lecture is "If I want to help other persons to write all sorts of programs, should I design a small programming language or a large one?"...

1 Haskell The ultimate dont-get-anything-done language. You will spend all your time pretending to be clever by matching types and don't get the work done. Absolutely useless language made for exobrain academics to write papers no one will read. 2 Rust A language that is a syntax error. It looks like syntax error, it...