System Architecture

While working on adding process identification to the network monitoring tool RustNet, I discovered interesting differences in how macOS and Linux tackle a quite common challenge: mapping network packets to processes. Especially tricky seem to be those short-lived processes that traditional polling approaches often miss.

What happens when AI agents stop just chatting and start acting, collaborating, and transforming business - powered by developers behind the scenes? Magic!

From simple weekly hours to complex patterns with exceptions, holidays, and seasonal changes - explore how to properly model business availability using modern standards like iCalendar.

Entangled tokens help explain subliminal learning.

Advancing and preserving bitcoin knowledge

Miniaturization and orchestration of human capabilities with AI and protocols

Really Simple Licensing

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called Global Positioning System (GPS) – listening to a flock of sat…

Business Rules In Database Movement Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Did you know that there was an entire movement in software development, complete with its own …

MyTerms (IEEE P7012 Draft Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms, unpacked here) has a simple conceptual structure that is open to many different protocols and roles for them. Note the arrows in this graphic: Protocols are required for those. Here is an alphabetized list of some protocols that I know so far, and what…

Feed readers view RSS as inbound, and blogging tools regard it as outbound.

If you’ve never used a PDP-11 before it’s probably because you simply weren’t around in the 70s and 80s. Although they started as expensive machines only in research labs and indu…

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Explore the use of functional options and default arguments in Elixir to create flexible and maintainable code. Learn how to use keyword lists for options and set default values effectively.

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.

Explanation of Stardates and their relation to actual dates on Star Trek.

Tincat Group, Inc. History of Computing, MultiValue GIRLS Papers.

Tincat Group, Inc. Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System User Requirements Specification by Don Nelson 1965

This is the first part of a three-part look at the software I worked with at the start of my career.

Reality, the original NoSQL, MultiValue Database SQL enabled for interoperability