Technology Commentary

On Tuesday, my Garmin said I slept 2 minutes. One problem (or rather, the first in a series of problems with this record): it was 8am, and I get up every morning at 6. I wasn't even in bed at 8, let alone asleep. (Indeed, I think I was lacing

Something people misunderstand about "ball hogs" is that they assume they hog the ball _because_ they’re better than other players. It's the opposite! Ball hog is a personality type (and I am one of them). I want to be in control as much as possible, and as a result I spend time getting really good at what I do. Almost all of my own skill acquisition can be explained by this impulse.

One path to being more productive is to avoid searching for the information you need when starting a task. Contextual computing is a solution to this.

One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their idea. Some executives are skeptical of this idea because they don’t like the implication that they’re usually wrong, but they weren’t the audience that was offended. But the folks who got particularly upset were non-executives who felt it was unfair for them to have to debug the executives’ communication. The fair solution, some argued, is for the executives to become better communicators rather than requiring others around them to become better listeners. For what it’s worth, I agree with them, that would be more fair, but I’ve always found it much more productive to focus on how I can improve my approach than to document ways that others could improve theirs.

GenAI promises evolutionary changes in how we use observability tools, but meeting expectations means heeding the lessons of our AIOps mistakes.

This is how GPU data orchestration can open new possibilities while reducing administration costs and time burdens.

The risk of the open internet is that someone will exploit your well-intentioned openness thoughtlessly. That’s how the internet slowly stops being open.

What could be added to TLA+ without compromising Lamport's vision?

Clarity is key: being explicit makes your code more readable and maintainable.

Amid screen time concerns, many turn to simpler phones to reclaim their lives.

In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and proba...

Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. Not least [And…

If you’ve been reading Hackaday for awhile, you’ll know we’re big fans of OpenSCAD around these parts. There’s a number of reasons it’s a tool we often reach for, but …

Integrate Postman with GitHub Actions for seamless CI/CD API testing, ensuring efficient and robust API development

A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess…

By Jiangwei Pan, Gary Tang, Henry Wang, and Justin Basilico

My video streaming app needs to be compiled and linked with Opencv and specific FFmpeg. Text is describing all needed steps in Ubuntu 22.04

Learn how to build a C++ OpenCV app that streams video to VLC with GStreamer. VCPKG manager makes it faster and easier. Follow this guide!

A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and its lessons about the modern world

I suggest following ThePrimeagen’s advice on approaching your configuration. He recommends revisiting your configuration only once every couple of months, which I think is a very healthy and sustainable approach. In the meantime, take a mental note...

The traditional approach to implementing Event Sourcing comes with many challenges. In this blog post, I’ll share new ideas on how to achieve 80% of the Event Sourcing benefits with 20% effort.

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just abo…

There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers increasing. The initial idea here was social commentary exposing the addictive core of many games, but like all good commentary it’s also inadvertently spawned the genre of gacha games that focus on extracting revenue from addicted gamers.