Digital Libraries

The status quo is powerful indeed. We add layers, patches and small improvisations, all to shore up something we don't want to reconsider. If we had a clean sheet of paper, and could design so…

Interpersonal relationships and team dynamics can be tricky. We often eschew the values of team work and working together, but balancing relationships when everyone has a good idea is tough. Jessic…

How can web professionals succeed in a world where the browser is declining in relevance? (Hint: Specialize.)

I had spent 25 minutes showing a content team the many ways Airstory would improve their lives when their manager looked at me and said:

Integrate and access any form of data using a multi-model database.

An AI-first strategy will only work if it puts the user first.

Episode 8 of the Containers podcast (embedded below) is on the topic of ‘Robots, Piers Full of Robots.’ The podcast mentions the Los Angeles pier of robots, which we blogged last year v…

In the series of posts about the essence of functional programming, we’ve already seen how we can build purely declarative programs using GADTs. This is a picture of what we got (using more s…

Chapter 8(b), "Scaling Stateful Objects" from upcoming book "Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games"

Like Salesforce, but for sharing widgets

If you’re going to be a humble programmer, you need to start with the assumption that every reported bug is your fault. This is a good principle, but what if it turns out the user did something stupid? What if it really is a third-party library that is buggy, not your code? Even if a bug isn’t your fault it’s still your responsibility, and in this post I’ll explain how to apply that in practice.

Why college is a Girardian nightmare; *Big Little Lies* on HBO; Proust; memes; why America's greatest feature is both tolerance and rejection of mimesis.

Only 2 out of every 1000 mobile web users ever tap a custom share button. Don’t even bother including them in mobile sites except when users are coming from a social network.

A range of new tools is being created to allow non-coders to access the advantages of serverless architectures through a visual interface. But developers can also gain from these tools by speeding up development time, standardizing their workflow patterns, and auto-generating code, said Jeff Hollan, Microsoft's program manager for Azure Logic Apps. While they are still emerging,…

The hyperconverged system market is getting mighty crowded. Red Hat is the latest company to enter the fray with its Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) offering, providing compute, storage and networking all virtualized on the same server. Last week, Red Hat released what it claimed to be the first "production-ready open source hyperconverged infrastructure," called Red Hat…

We all take the predictability and reliability of other utilities for granted. So why is broadband such a frustrating exception? Why do our Skype calls fail mid-way? What makes Netflix buffer like crazy? How come our gaming sessions are so laggy? Imagine if the design of your electrical supply was optimised to apply the biggest possible voltage and current to anything that was plugged in. That would clearly be ridiculous!

"I don't think you can design anything just by absorbing information and then hoping to synthesise it into a solution. What you need to know about the problem only becomes apparent as you're trying to solve it." Richard MacCormac The argument here is a simple one, but one which I

There’s no doubt the 94-year-old The Walt Disney Company has embraced technology as the key factor in driving its growth in the entertainment industry. But when you are an enterprise of this age and size in the public eye, how can you scale without implosion? During the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London this June, Disney Director…

Using the same technology that makes Bitcoin possible, neighbors are buying and selling renewable energy to each other.

With WannaCry and now with Petya we're getting to see how and why some ransomware worms are more effective than others. I think there are 3 main factors:

Write and run C code using our C online compiler & interpreter. You can build, share, and host applications right from your browser!

Full-stack livecoding with Caffeine, NodeJS, and Twitter… “tweetcoding”.

The drive to find more sustainable transport fuels has been given a boost by some Dutch students.