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AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it's building its own web browser. It'll be called Comet, and it's set to arrive 'soon.'

Adding AI Chat to the Python Tutor Code Visualizer: A Case Study

As brands look to hold onto the internet of the past, the term “community” will become a loaded word.

Given recent political upheaval in the US, I decided to spend some time looking at how feasible it was to move my public facing services away from US based service providers onto European alternatives

I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready

Forget WINE; a fascinating technique to make Photoshop work on Linux involves chopping up a remote access client into a windowing interface. It kinda works.

Did you know that the land of flat-pack furniture and Saab automobiles played a serious role in the development of minicomputers, the forerunners of our home computers? If not, read on for a bit of…

Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how to solve the problem at hand before you know the problem’s nuances and constraints. If you ever find yourself wanting to skip the diagnosis phase–let’s get to the solution already!–then maybe it’s worth acknowledging that every strategy that I’ve seen fail, did so due to a lazy or inaccurate diagnosis. It’s very challenging to fail with a proper diagnosis, and almost impossible to succeed without one.

No.345 — Principles for the permaweird ⊗ Corporate foresight ⊗ The NYT and internal AI tools ⊗ The Luddite Club

Summary: Hewlett-Packard (HP) has filed several patents covering standard Continuous Delivery (CD) practices. You can help to have these patents revoked by providing ‘prior art’ example…

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

Pre-NEMA plugs and sockets

It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only game in town. Ethernet seems ubiquitous today, but it had to fight past several competing standards. VHS and Blu-…

We get it. We also watched Star Trek and thought how cool it would be to talk to our computer. From Kirk setting a self-destruct sequence, to Scotty talking into a mouse, or Picard ordering Earl Gr…

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently bee…

Summary: Human populations will start to decrease globally in a few more decades. Thereafter fewer and few humans will be alive to contribute labor and to consume what is made. However at the same historical moment as this decrease, we … Continue reading →

The Forge Laboratory is a communications research lab developing software, standards and architecture for open-source human-based computation networks, but what does that mean?

Consider the emerging expressions of human-AI interactions and what that means for our interpretation of AGI. And lots of other notions as every week.

If you go to secondary school in Germany for the last 2 years you have to pick a bunch of specializations, subjects you want to focus on to a degree. You spend more time on these subjects and your final grade is strongly influenced by your results in those courses. When I picked math as […]

Generative AI is not a calculator. Thinking of it that way misses the point.

The hype around serverless computing has died down, and now we can evaluate it more clearly.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Enterprises are finally discovering that serverless computing is not a universal remedy. A mix of serverless and traditional architectures is almost always a better approach.

Posted on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025. 1,844 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society by Ben Werdmuller

A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Competitive Potential of AI

A few years before USB took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.