Technology Commentary

Today brought so many stories worth “notes and observations” that I thought I’d try something new – a flash newsletter of sorts, with commentary on stories that pushed my ey…

What happens when demand exceeds supply? A 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract Perspective

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The hidden architectural choice that makes big platforms bigger—and how we could change the rules for AI

There’s a fundamental architectural flaw in how the internet works that most people have never heard of, but it explains nearly every frustration you have with modern technology. Why your pho…

An off the cuff ramble

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and while I was listening to a discussion about the latest updates coming from Google and their …

Manuel “Manu” Moreale: The Web != the Web via Curtis McHale when tech reporters say “the web” they don’t mean the web. When these people talk about the web they’re talking about the web they’re part of: they talk about the web that is powered by advertising and

For the good of both. Customers need privacy, respect, and the ability to provide good and helpful information to the companies they deal with. The good clues customers bring can include far more than what companies get today from their CRM systems, and from surveillance of customer activities. For example, market intelligence that flows both…

Explore how you can set Copilot coding agent up for success with custom instruction and Copilot setup steps.

By Sergey Fedorov, Chris Pham, Flavio Ribeiro, Chris Newton, and Wei Wei

The New Stack interviews Kent Dodds, web developer, about his development decisions on his professional site and why he'd still choose Node.

We must dispel the myth that security, speed and innovation are competing priorities. A balanced, integrated approach proves they are not.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Weeknotes 348 - Do we want to remove all frictions in a seamless AI presence, or do we need this for being human? Thoughts and captures from the news in human-AI-things.

How to transform the internet's most toxic platform into essential infrastructure.

Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like

One of the networks Lori Emerson wrote about in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is the NABU Network (or the Natural Access to Bi-Directional Utilities Network). This was the only in…

Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook was published by the art book publisher Anthology Editions on May 19, 2025 and as of July is official…

No.365 — From futurephobia to futuretopia ⊗ Computing, life, and intelligence ⊗ Robots “walk” historic building complex ⊗ The wild within the walls

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Positioning AI contenders — and losers — by their tech philosophy and business potential.

This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?