Technology Commentary

‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.

The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev

Thirty years ago, a Macintosh Portable was used to send an email from aboard the space shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-43 mission. The email in question was sent to Marsha Ivins at Johnson Space Center and said: Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a...

The history of the floppy disk, and why we don't really miss it, by @sjvn  @Enterprisenxt

Ten years ago I would have considered myself someone who was excited about new technology. I always had the latest smartphone, I would read the reviews of new Android releases with a lot of interes…

Posted on Wednesday 25 Aug 2021. 931 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

The spammers have found Substack. There’s a long history of useful tools on the internet attracting selfish con men. Substack is a platform for bloggers who want paying subscribers. They&#821…

When you think about the Amish, the first thing you probably think about is their traditional, 19th-century-esque lifestyle and especially their rejection of technology.  Yet, contrary to popular belief, the Amish don’t reject all modern technology and aren’t entirely against it. While guidelines around the use of tech vary between their communities, in many of […]

Tinker, Tailor, Data Science, AI.

Full Discloser: While reading this blog post, please put yourself in my shoes.

Privacy and safety inevitably clash on the Internet.

It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. Even if the $40 billion acquisition of Arm Holdings falls apart

Why does it suck so much to downgrade an operating system on a modern computer—particularly, on a Mac—and why do we put up with it? Here’s what I had to do.

Great set of talks from Javier Serrano of CERN, Rick O’Conner of OpenHW Group, Calista Redmore of RISC-V International, and more: One of the most advanced areas in Open Hardware is open chips…