Technology Commentary

Dig in to the original goals of the Postgres academic project at UC Berkeley and how they shaped the Postgres we use today.

Tech leaders weigh in on vibe coding: What it is, what it’s not, and how to use it safely in production software.

Data from Australia confirms that the high cost of scalability and agility is forcing some enterprises to rethink their cloud strategies.

By: Molly Struve

How the drum machine, despite being a machine, proved just to have just enough heart to dominate the pop charts.

The quiet was unsettling. The lack of concrete things to do was stressful. Me and my wife had been fretting and flitting around the house for most of the day making sure everything was staged, that we had the various prints, checklists were ready, lots of bags and boxes were packed. The event wasn't even starting today, not even fully tomorrow. The quiet after intense preparation.

Ed Stack built Dick’s Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an empire of more than 800 stores and billions in sales. Along the way he nearly lost everything. Multiple times. This episode is the story of what he did, how he did it, and the lessons you can learn. Coming Soon: Apple Podcasts …

Open source software is often the unglamorous workhorse in your server rack, the silent operator in your stack, and the punk soul in your operations pipeline.  It's thoroughly tested and trusted for all the right reasons. But when your business depends on it, you still need a lifeline. "Having enterprise-grade

The average knowledge worker gets hit with 117 emails a day. With a few key shifts, you can prevent email from sabotaging your week.

Learn what are binary files, how they are different from text files and why do we need them. Use the tools like xxd and file to read and interpret binary information and solve bandit level 5 challenge.

Sort of an update on my exploration of a future of programming

Write your first hypervisor from scratch, in 1K LoC.

I recently learned about a new way to leak your privacy, and it’s a scary one. Before going further, know that I’m not a network engineer: perhaps if you work in this field, you’ve known it for your whole career, but it’s quite new to me. Let me share my findings, and you can judge for yourself. Since the original post was quite lengthy, I have broken it down into two installments: the problem and the solution. The situation I own my own domain. I’ve created mu

When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic eng…

How a gem was cut and then lost

Desktop environments are the norm as computer interfaces these days, but there was once a time when they were a futuristic novelty whose mere presence on a computer marked it out as something speci…

How can we design better platforms?

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

Apollo Research & OpenAI find that anti-scheming training in frontier AI models significantly reduced covert behaviours, but did not eliminate them.

Together with Apollo Research, we developed evaluations for hidden misalignment (“scheming”) and found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests across frontier models. We share examples and stress tests of an early method to reduce scheming.

E-bikes and what they can teach us about AI

Your All-in-One Learning Portal: GeeksforGeeks is a comprehensive educational platform that empowers learners across domains-spanning computer science and programming, school education, upskilling, commerce, software tools, competitive exams, and more.

Learn about the history of databases in an easy-to-read timeline, from the first computerized databases in the 1960s to the powerful technologies of today.

Before we were watching Netflix movies, video-conferencing with our friends, and playing real-time video games on the Internet, we were using online services, such AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie to talk about movies, type letters to our buddies, and play ASCII, turn-based games.

Understanding the Core Challenges of Asynchronous Architectures

from the FreeBSD Journal "Letters" column