Technology Commentary

I don’t like HDMI. Despite it being a pretty popular interface, I find crucial parts of it to be alien to what hackers stand for. The way I see it, it manages to be proprietary while bringing…

A dozen years ago (how can it be so long? How can he have been so prescient?) Anil Dash wrote “the Web We Lost“. This isn’t our web today. We’ve lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we’ve abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To […]

The latest artificial intelligence use cases appear to be built specifically for managers and executives, and literally nobody else. That’s a problem.

How to navigate the "half-life of knowledge" and create a fulfilling career through focusing on fundamentals and building a personal vision.

We use it to enhance efficiency and ensure integrity A new report says few people are using “much-hyped” artificial intelligence (AI) products such as ChatGPT.  Researchers surveyed 12,000 people inRead More »How Agilebase Uses AI

Practical calculation using numerical tables is not simply a matter of looking up numbers. You had to be more sophisticated than that.

I have often complained about the lack of good modern tooling for systems development. I finally decided to sit down and write up a collection of ideas and concepts I wish someone would steal and develop into a fully fledged modern integrated development environm

Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.

14 of the best papers out of the 2260 papers presented at the 2024 ICLR conference, in 4 sections covering Image Generation, Vision Learning, Extending Transformers, and State Space Models.

This week, another round of AI news. I am thinking about applying agonistic pluralism in generative things and urban robots. And others -more-than-human- news and events to visit.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

A piece of growing internet.

Inventing new materials is only the first step. Getting them into mass production and use is just as hard.

Startup Userfront takes on the complexity of scaling customer accounts for SaaS companies as they grow.

This weekend, I shelled out $5.99 for a month-long subscription to the streaming service Peacock. I wanted to watch the Prefontaine Classic, the annual track and field event held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. In particular, I wanted to watch Sha'Carri Richardson in the 100m and

WebAssembly has been the new hotness for what feels like ages. The creator of Docker tweeted that Docker wouldn’t have been necessary if WebAssembly existed in 2008. People have made talks speculating that it will eat the entire programming model. Almost every language has been compiled to WebAssembly. So why are people not using WebAssembly over 7 years after its release? Standardization Is Slow First and most obviously, WebAssembly has been very slow to standardize.

Fly.io is a highly visible cloud provider in the Elixir ecosystem and they put forward an interesting promise. They don't deliver on that promise currently but I think it would be very compelling if they get there. Especially for Elixir. Let's dig in.