Technology Commentary

A watershed* is land that drains through a river to the sea or into an inland body of water. That’s what came to mind for me when I read this from Dave Winer: If you want to help the open web…

Have you ever decided to migrate off some playform only because some of the features you needed were “Enterprise only”? Well, I did, and that’s frustrating.

Edit distance, more formally known as Levenshtein distance, is a practical way to measure how different two blocks of text are.

Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team

The co-founder of WordPress steps in it, repeatedly, in a forest-for-the-trees fight with WP Engine that makes me feel sad for the open internet.

Word that CNN is getting a paywall feels like a sign that good information is more expensive than ever.

Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a good opportunity to reach across &#82…

Happy Friday! What's good? No surprise, this email has a slight shift of focus this morning – the new book project demands it. Typically, on Fridays, I send an email detailing the week's news about the business of health technology. For the next few months (at least), I'll be paying much

It was time to do some upgrades on the club's flyer screens. In the past, I had done that by ssh-ing in to each; turning off "Overlay"; rebooting; doing an update; turning on "Overlay"; and rebooting again. It was slow and error-prone and often ended up with a bricked system. It was a real "what the hell am I doing" moment when I realized that 32GB microSD cards are now $3.50 each, so I just ...

Autonomous observability for system monitoring and management aims to use GenAI and machine learning to automatically detect, diagnose and resolve issues.

On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ability to share and download files.

After seven years of trying, we need to change course on our adventure in the Android galaxy.

A decade of research busts the myth that high-performance software delivery isn't for the regulated.

wingolog: article: fedi is for losers

The first wave of successful AI implementations will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was dominated by large-scale enterprise installations that eliminated jobs. Consumer …

A Computer Languages diagram

OpenTelemetry offers you a big-picture view, while eBPF allows you to zoom in when you need to troubleshoot with precision.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first — in his DEFCON 32 presentation, [Dr. Mixæl Laufer] shared quite a bit of information on how individuals can make and distribute various contr…

Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.

Discover why Java remains a dominant language for enterprise applications in 2024. Learn about its ecosystem, scalability, and role in cloud computing, microservices, and more.

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Towards a bigger, better fediverse

A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.

Everything that happened after we left Substack

Open source is more than just the code.