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We had two repos of Elixir, seventy-five LiveView components, five sheets of high-powered Phoenix channels, a saltshaker half-full of SQLite databases, and a whole multicolored collection of Burrito deployables, Tauri binaries, WebView wrappers, hot-reloaders… Also, a quart of WebSockets, a quart of GenServers, a case of Ecto queries, a pint of raw BEAM bytecode, and two dozen supervisors. The only thing that really worried me was the WebView. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a developer in the depths of a cross-platform binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ultimate goal of any data effort is to enable better decisions and drive meaningful organizational outcomes.

M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser's Back. His problem starts with OpenAI's GPT Atlas, which some publishers won't let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you a…

A repost, with some updates.

Six months on, the industry is converging: code-execution over tool registries. Anthropic’s data and Cloudflare’s Code Mode show the path…

The first Agentic Internet Workshop (AIW1) took place on October 24, 2025, the day after IIW 41, bringing together a global group to explore how agents, identity, and infrastructure intersect. With 40+ sessions and participants from 10 countries, AIW I marked the beginning of a focused conversation on building an internet that acts on our behalf—securely, transparently, and with human agency at its core.

When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the paradigm switch from analog to digital transmission. At the dawn of the n…

Introducing pg_lake, a set of open-source PostgreSQL extensions from Snowflake that allow you to query, manage, and write to Iceberg tables in your data lakehouse.

A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.

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A short survey of compiler targets like assembly, LLVM, C, JVM and Brainfuck.

Using AI agents, the incident commander isn’t a micromanager but more of a strategist, offloading context gathering and synthesis to focus on high-stakes decisions.

Our industry loves acronyms. In fact, sometimes it feels as if half our job is simply keeping up with them, while the other half is explaini...

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, p…

It’s a word I admit I’ve not really thought of, until in recent weeks it became news that ‘Pebbling’ is the new term for when people share memes and gifs to...

Everybody notices when something big fails—like AWS’s US-EAST-1 region. And fail it did. All sorts of services and sites became inaccessible, and we all knew

Here is a question for you. What is more difficult: predicting the weather thirty days out or what global AI infrastructure spending will be out to the

Most dev teams don't need 47 dashboards or petabytes of logs—they need answers at 2 AM. Explore the evolution from APM to observability.

: When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors

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The screens we've installed everywhere have started to turn against us.

To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what…

In this episode of Version History, the fight to win the music wars.

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Why organizations must evaluate values, not just features

Returning from vacation turns into a tech horror story: an empty data center database, looming deadlines, and how Replay saved the day.

When code stops being written by humans, does beauty still matter?

The evolution of workload identity: Kerberos to X.509 to SPIFFE to TWI. Why credentials should expire faster than your containers run.