Technology Commentary

Reflections on a recent Paul Graham piece – and on the culture at Oxide

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

lsat protocol specification . Contribute to lightninglabs/L402 development by creating an account on GitHub.

DEC’s LAN Bridge 100 was a major milestone in the history of Ethernet which made it a viable option for the ever-growing LANs of yesteryear and today. Its history is also the topic of a recen…

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

And calling yourself a prompt engineer is dumb.

Telosys is a free code generator usable with different languages or frameworks : Java, JavaScript, Python, NodeJS, PHP, GoLang, C#, Angular, VueJS, etc

Yellicode, a free and extensible cross-platform source code generation engine.

Don't think of accessibility features as just for accessibility—they are features, helpful for everyone.

What do you do when a managed service runs out of disk space? Well, try everything and give up a few hours later, I guess.

Have you ever wondered how a request from a client application navigates its way to your server process? What magic do web server…

From the man who made emulators easy on Steam Deck.

Explore how continuous promotion addresses the limitations of traditional CI/CD pipelines.

Tool stacks and platforms that use a harmony-focused method can bring the fun back into development.

There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, 1most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories. This is also how I originally had used worktrees, but that didn't stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us

Oxide builds hardware but they sell hardware, culture, and expertise

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

The weekly notes on human-AI partnerships, immersive connectiveness, tech societies and thing to do and experience. And thinking about the relationsship of AGI and cozytech.

Why are all these humanoids popping up? Some thoughts. And the latest in news on tech societies and human-AI partnerships.

In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York Times, tried AI trip planners for a Norway itinerary: Overall, Mindtrip — with its polish…

When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such a role for the clas…

It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That clever and sophisticated beats basic and straightforward mos...

Containerization has revolutionized the software industry, but using them blindly for everything without considering their drawbacks or…