Manuel “Manu” Moreale: The Web != the Web via Curtis McHale
when tech reporters say “the web” they don’t mean the web. When these people talk about the web they’re talking about the web they’re part of: they talk about the web that is powered by advertising and
The Cluetrain Will Run from Customers to Companies – ProjectVRM
For the good of both. Customers need privacy, respect, and the ability to provide good and helpful information to the companies they deal with. The good clues customers bring can include far more than what companies get today from their CRM systems, and from surveillance of customer activities. For example, market intelligence that flows both…
Weeknotes 348 - Do we want to remove all frictions in a seamless AI presence, or do we need this for being human? Thoughts and captures from the news in human-AI-things.
exploring NABU in 2025, a Canadian cable TV network from 1984
One of the networks Lori Emerson wrote about in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is the NABU Network (or the Natural Access to Bi-Directional Utilities Network). This was the only in…
Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook was published by the art book publisher Anthology Editions on May 19, 2025 and as of July is official…
The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand
This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
Industry experts say no-code platforms are dying due to AI-powered "vibe coding." But others argue AI will transform visual development into something new.
Wire Like A Pro: Peeking Into Wire Harness Mastery
There are many ways to learn, but few to none of them compare to that of spending time standing over the shoulder of a master of the craft. This awesome page sent in by [JohnU] is a fantastic corne…
FireWire’s Introduction and Importance - 512 Pixels
If you’ve been wondering why so many of us are sad about the end of FireWire — despite it being well past its prime — you have to go back to its start. FireWire was first introduced with the “Blue and White” Power Mac G3 back in 1999. This is mine, a machine I used […]
While we know that many of you are reading Hackaday via our Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, we suspect that most people on the street wouldn’t know that it underlies a lot of the modern…