The Generation Ship Model of Software Development
You live with your family in Area Delta-44 of floor 212. Floors 140 through 266 are your world. Your life is walls and corridors, air ducts and stairwells, and—if you’re lucky—elevators. You live…
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
Old school newspaper office libraries are sorely missed
Pre-internet newspapers contained huge libraries of knowledge and skilled experts, much of that was lost when they moved from print to digital.
Do not ask me to use Visual Studio Code or Chrome
I have been asked a couple times to switch from Emacs to VS Code or from Firefox/Safari to Chrome. Here’s why I will never do it.
Terminal Fever
In 2010, a college student wrote a piece of code that would help him start a company. Thirteen years later, he would walk away from a multi-billion-dollar public company he built, only to start tin…
You Cannot Manufacture Art
As an artist, writer, and general creative, I know that it takes many iterations to finalize a piece. I know…
ELIZA Archaeology
Welcome to the ELIZA Archaeology Project. This research project brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, artists, and programmers to explore the history and ideas around the ELIZA chatbot.
ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer
The code for ELIZA, the original 1960s chatbot, found
ELIZA is one of the most influential computer programs ever written. Developed by Joseph Weizenbaum, at MIT in the mid 1960s, long before ChatGPT, ELIZA was the world’s first chatbot; the fir…
Apple iPhone was launched, presentation | Aalto repository
Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right
To the credit of the team that put this presentation together, they mostly got it.
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
Why You Should Reconsider Your 'Big Tech' Job in 2025
Many engineers are leaving the IT industry, seeking better benefits, work-life balance and stability by bringing their IT skills to other sectors.
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes - Schneier on Security
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death. Over the millennia, we have created security systems to deal with the sorts of mistakes humans commonly make. These days, casinos rotate their dealers regularly, because they make mistakes if they do the same task for too long. Hospital personnel write on limbs before surgery so that doctors operate on the correct body part, and they count surgical instruments to make sure none were left inside the body. From copyediting to double-entry bookkeeping to appellate courts, we humans have gotten really good at correcting human mistakes...
IndieWeb
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
PESOS
PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site. It's a syndication model where publishing starts by posting to a 3rd party service, then using infrastructure (e.g. feeds, Micropub, webhooks) to create an archive copy on your site.
bradfitz - Joining Tailscale
Maybe what you’re feeling is “automation anxiety”
Issue #250: foraging, pickling, and dead husbands who haunt your dreams
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a w...
Now is the time of monsters ⊗ Trouble transitioning ⊗ Living alongside computer people
No.340 — Artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world ⊗ How AI uncovers new ways to tackle difficult diseases ⊗ Libraries positively impact community health and well-being
bliki: Two Hard Things
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton (bonus variations on the page)
The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model
The testing pyramid made a lot of sense when it conceived - but this is no longer the case.
ELIZA Makes a Comeback
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more.
4 Lessons We Learned from Bringing AI to Our Company
So, you have a shiny new piece of technology that everyone’s talking about and at least one enthusiast ready to light the fire. How do you start?
Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple
The history of color bars, the most common television test pattern out there, and what they actually do. (Also, Netflix has some weird test programming.)
Faster Horses
About Henry Ford, AI search results and building better horses for your users.
Key Strategies for Effective Connected TV Marketing
All Lisp Indentation Schemes Are Ugly
Indentation styles are a hot topic in every language. So let's see how Lisps do indentation! Uuuuuuugh!
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
Mauitron/The-River: A critique and alternative to 'best practices'
A critique and alternative to 'best practices' . Contribute to Mauitron/The-River development by creating an account on GitHub.
RaviAnand Mohabir
CTO and software developer specializing in scalable web applications, CRMs, and client-focused solutions. Driving innovation at InnoPeak, a leading FinSure startup.