Technology Commentary

Posted on Friday 29 Nov 2024. 1,600 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.

A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the ...

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024

The just-released elementary OS 8 is interesting, but its impressive but prescriptive interface paradigm lives in an ecosystem of power users. Who blinks first?

In a time when AI-powered imaging software tweaks and smooths every digital photo to appear perfect, some photographers are embracing the quirky flaws of vintage digital cameras.

When reading this story about the growing popularity of vintage digital cameras in Wired, I was reminded of this quote by Don Draper from the television series Mad Men: “Nostalgia – its delic…

Streamlined observability enables faster troubleshooting and better resource allocation.

By automating routine tasks and augmenting human capabilities, AI can streamline workflows, enhance security and accelerate innovation.

Stanford research in developer productivity has identified 0.1x engineers.

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A new book explores an intriguing idea: that there are core processes in some platforms that naturally tilt the table towards being implemented in a single company.

The proverb “good fences make good neighbours” is descriptive of why boundaries are needed in our software designs. Not only as a way to break up the problem and make it easier to comprehend and manage, but also to make the teams working in your company get along better and bring out the best in eac

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Space on the screen and negotiating control over it.

Making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs that is impact all stages of our physical and digital worlds.

Jessica Kerr, Developer Relations Engineering at Honeycomb, says observability is just the way your software communicates with you. Honeycomb is one of the companies at the forefront of championing the importance of observability, so we sat with Jessica at CraftConference and asked her to share her knowledge about some of the most often mentioned terms […]

During World War II, shipboard life in the United States Navy was a gamble. No matter which theater of operations you found yourself in, the enemy was all around on land, sea, and air, ready to del…

The company has open-sourced a tech standard that easily connects AI apps to data stores and AI tools.