Technology Commentary

Photo by john mishael Calimoso on Unsplash Given our ever-increasing digital lives, what I am about to say makes little sense — recently released numbers show that there might be a historic slowdow…

Why I chose to use WebAssembly for my analytics tool, and how it could change the future of application development.

Open source may shift and transform, but it’s as strong as ever — and likely to remain so for generations.

Broadcom research reveals that network teams experience increasing levels of network complexity, a shortage of skilled workers, and a lack of visibility into internet and cloud environments.

Learn how the OpenTelemetry community is collaborating to adopt OTel’s "events" construct as a way to effectively model mobile crashes.

Thoughts on the sudden surge of success Bluesky has seen this week—without a network-dampening algorithm in sight.

Some brand names become the de facto name for the generic product. Xerox, for example. Or Velcro. Teletype was a trademark, but it has come to mean just about any teleprinter communicating with ano…

“You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.

Examples of Postgres constraints using a schema and data requirements for a reservation system.

I recently saw a meme about async and await, and honestly, it hit home.

The more stressed the world’s water supplies become, the greater the likelihood that water costs will rise for the data center industry. This relationship is just starting to create compelling opportunities for investors.

This week’s thoughts are triggered by the graduation work of Lisa. And next to that some highlights from the tech societies and futures news.

Code is an asset, but each line is a liability. Let’s explain.

Attractors

A guide for your holiday season and beyond!

Con·tent (as an adjective) in a state of peaceful happiness. (as a noun) contents of a book, television program, or website, or even a container. Daylight saving time can play havoc on on…

First published June 2017.

Custom URL Protocols integrate websites and desktop apps via unique identifiers in the Windows Registry

A lot of people are looking for ways to get off networks run by dipshit billionaires right now, and also for refuges online that don't come with their own terrible problems. I want to help them find some.

The IndieWeb is more than just webmentions. It's about having your own website, sharing links to other websites, and being part of communities that work towards building a better web.

By embracing chaos engineering, companies can avoid outages and ensure a seamless experience for their users, even when disruptions occur.

Posted on Friday 8 Nov 2024. 410 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

Hello AI enthusiasts.

This week’s system design refresher:

MVP is such a misused term in product development that it’s now almost useless. In many organisations, it describes the initial version o...

We held the 39th edition of Internet Identity Workshop last week. Like always, it was a great week.

Although generative AI and large language models have been pushed as direct replacements for certain kinds of workers, plenty of businesses actually doing this have found that using this new techno…