System Architecture

In Al Williams’s marvelous rant he points out a number of the problems with speaking to computers. Obvious problems with voice control include things like multiple people talking over each other, d…

News rivers were a brilliant idea in the first place. Perhaps, now that at least one high-profile publisher has embraced them, the rest might follow. But first, some history, in the best chronologi…

Dave Winer is up to something important... again. He has been talking about wanting "rivers of news" -- that is, headlines stripped of the packaging...

News isn't just a product, it's a community, and news organizations should take advantage of what's happening around them, the web pioneer argues.

Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?

Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use case…

A 100-percent jargon-free guide

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.

If you want to learn about the technical aspects of VirtIO, then this is the blog for you.

If you're wondering on how to document Event-Driven Architecture, or you don't know that you should, I have something for you. We discussed with David Boyne, why data governance practices and documenting is essential on building maintainable and evolvable systems. David also showed us also how EventCatalog can help in that. Watch this hands-on webinar to learn more!

At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18 months, and a flurry of IPO-readiness activity kicks off. This strategy focuses on a company working on IPO readiness, which has identified a gap in their internal controls for managing access to their users’ data. It’s a company that wants to meaningfully improve their security posture around user data access, but which has had a number of failed security initiatives over the years.

How does Russian Morse code compare to International Morse Code? How hard would it be to switch from one to the other?

How to Solve Linear Diophantine Equations with Multiple Variables

Comprehensive resources for decentralized social web protocols including ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, and more.

The public mainnet for Story Protocol, a network for licensing and maintaining IP assets, is now up and running following its testnet phase.

An explanation of two-way sync, how it can help your business, and the best tools for the job

Realtime data synchronization in Meteor.js relies on three core mechanisms: Pub/Sub Model: Server publishes data subsets, clients subscribe to specific dat...

In praise of the humble indie app.

Dispatches from the Hudson Valley creative community.

Are you tired of the repetitive process of downloading PDFs manually, extracting their content, and then inserting the parsed text into your PostgreSQL database? If so, you’re not alone. The traditional approach—downloading files, using external tools to extract text, and then importing it into a database—is cumbersome and time-consuming.