Technology Commentary

In the early 1990s I was privileged enough to be immersed in the world of technology during the exciting period that gave birth to the World Wide Web, and I can honestly say I managed to completely…

ChatGPT and the like are not nearly as good as you think. And as time goes by, they're getting worse.

Is AI getting worse? Or are we getting more picky?

Apple is well and truly a services company; hardware is necessary but insufficient for future growth.

Network APIs are the new secret weapon for developers, and CAMARA is redefining the rules by making Telco integration more powerful than ever.

Previously, we've looked at code generation in both Rails and Thrift. But unlike Thrift, the code generated by Rails is meant to be changed. Any change is...

A guide on turning your diary into dollars.

By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk

Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. This…

If you’re a longtime mobile phone enthusiast like I am, you’ve already seen a dedicated camera control button on phones well before Apple entered the smartphone market. The Nokia N95 is a notable e…

IBM got their PCs and PS/2 computers into schools in the 1980s and 1990s. We fondly remember educational games like Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. However, IBM had been trying to get into the ed…

One of the most significant performance improvements I’ve seen in a micro-services platform was moving from 🐢 HTTP/1.1 to 🚀 HTTP/2. But…

Exceptions are often a better way to handle errors than returning them as values. We argue that traditional exceptions provide better user and developer experience, and show that they even result in faster execution.

By now you’re probably hearing about OpenTelemetry quite often. Maybe you’ve already read the description at…

Developer Cory LaViska built component libraries for large companies, but he saw a need for an open source Web Components library.

In reality, staff engineers aren’t about ‘company wide’ impact but a system of patronage where managers reward behaviors they value

Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"

Scale AI’s future versus further scaling of language model performance. How Nvidia may take all the margins from the data market, too.

What is the definition of “Open Source”? In future posts, we’ll discuss harmonious paths forward, but for now we have to dig into why OSI’s Open Source Definition created division from the start

How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.

For the last few years, I had several thousand people at my disposal. In short, I was a Warlord in the ur-Metaverse.

I’ve clipped interviews with hackers from the 1980’s from longer TV news segments, you can find the longer segments linked below as well. We are talking about primary sources here, hack…

As the community struggles to define open source AI, it battles unprecedented complexity.

Roy Fielding created REST as his doctorate dissertation. After reading it at https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm, I would boil it down to three basic elements: A document that d…

On the freedom that cellular modems gave to consumers—and how mobile companies tried to claw it back during the iPhone era.

Mark Graham, director of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, joins Decoder to discuss linkrot.

The difference in security defaults between Debian and Red Hat.