Arc Browser Company: Google Chrome and Apple Safari Face a New Challenger
The browser wars are over, and innovation on Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari has largely stalled. Josh Miller’s Browser Co. is rethinking the fundamentals of how we use the web.
My Interview with Craft VP of Engineering on Craft 2, Extensions, the Web App, and More
Craft 2.0 [https://www.craft.do/s/lEjdSXBpq9jSgg] released a few weeks ago, and it had some things I really wanted more details about, so I was really excited when Craft agreed to do an interview with me for A Better Computer to talk about the nitty-gritty details of
Overstating the Consumerization of IT – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Marco Arment, in Underscore Price Dynamics: This is the real reason why Apple doesn’t care about upgrade pricing: there’s no demand from customers. The market has shown that free apps will be downl…
Cloud-native platforms are a Gartner tech trend, at last
The inclusion of cloud-native platforms in Gartner’s 2022 Strategic Tech Trends shows business leaders are wising-up to what it takes to reap cloud success.
Netlify and Vercel are two startups growing at record pace. Both nail the developer experience and supercharge developer productivity. Tooling is everything, and in a world where bottoms up adoption is so strong, individual developers essentially pick the enterprise stack. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is AWS. But the thing about 800-pound gorillas is that they weigh 800-pounds. AWS Amplify has failed to gain the same kind of traction (that's anecdotal evidence, I don't have numbers to supp
Gartner's Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.
Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved
Shift left and shift right are core testing concepts of the agile DevOps methodology, which speeds up application development by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. As part of the continuous cycle of progressive delivery, DevOps teams are also adopting shift-left and shift-right principles to ensure software quality in these dynamic environments. All this…
Datadog (DDOG) delivered another impressive earnings report on November 4th. After a strong Q2, Datadog is showing no signs of slowing down as we finish out
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained) - Farnam Street
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...