Technology Commentary

Where we are right now, and what likely happens next

Posted on Thursday 12 Mar 2026. 1,380 words, 17 links. By Matt Webb.

We understand the impact outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.

GitHub’s been taking it on the chin on the availability front lately. Yesterday, their CTO, Vlad Fedorov, wrote a post on their blog about their recent incidents: Addressing GitHub’s recent a…

What I've been up to this month. Reading, watching, listening, collecting, and exploring interesting links across the web.

Shadow IT isn’t a visibility problem. It’s an identity failure. If devices can authenticate, your system is allowing what you think you’re detecting.

What’s the least you can do to build an effective paywall for creators that’s mostly open-source? If we can figure that out, that might help lots of creators.

Once upon a time, self-hosting used to be a cost-effective thing. Is it still a good option for fending off SaaS as the prices keep creeping up?

Hello, fellow conscientious objectors! Welcome back to more news from the Opt Out Project. This list has been quiet of late if only because it has been a...

Why autonomous systems need a deterministic runtime

A practical guide to building fullstack features faster by designing the backend API first and letting the code serve as living documentation.

What if a 60-year-old math diagram could write drum beats? Turns out it can — and the results sound surprisingly good.

Your app is slow because of the database, not the runtime. Fix N+1 queries, add the right indexes, size your connection pool correctly. Do this before Redis, before caching, before anything else.

Launching Netdriver with Docker to Automate your Network is a simple process.No need for SSH connection code or to write complex exceptions, NetDriver will make it as simple as calling a Rest API.

Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!

Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are ready for broader community use and feedback. Production profiling for all Continuously capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production is a technique that has been used for decades. It helps troubleshoot production incidents, improves user experience by making software faster and reduces computation costs by making the same work take less resources. Historically, the industry lacked a common framework and protocol for continuous profiling, even with formats like JFR and pprof being popular.

Getting sidetracked is a necessary part of the engineering experience.

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.

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

: AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity

HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that bots have eclipsed human users, with automated traffic growing eight times faster than human activity.

Why software fails and how you can practically address it with a six-step plan

Just kidding.

How to safely refactor messy CSS using AI assistance and screenshot-based visual diffing as a regression safety net.

I’ve been exploring how policy, delegation, and continuous authorization can make agentic AI systems useful without making them ungovernable. This post ties together six essays that trace that journey from foundational ideas to practical patterns.

Part 7: RAG Architectures - From Basic to Big Brain Mode

When I start a new engagement, one of the first things I ask for is a current network inventory. Not a diagram. Not a design doc. Just a list of active devices on the network. More often than I would like to admit, the operator can't give me one. This is most common in regional ISPs and