Remind me later – The Secret Knots
Understanding and Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
Learn how code review anxiety impacts developers and organizations, hindering collaboration and productivity and discover actionable insights to foster a positive code review culture.
After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?
Introduction to the λ-calculus
The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp
First a small detour # I program in Objective-C and Swift daily, because those are the languages that Apple requires developers to use to build software for their platform. It’s not a strict requirement to use any of these two languages if you go cross-platform, but for good integration you would eventually have to write platform code in them.
After using Swift for more than 5 years I can confidently say that it’s getting worse with each addition, very similar to how C++ ended up being the monster it is.
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades | Arduino Blog
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel efficiency and performance. But that requires computer oversight, which is why Kenyan engineer Peter Mbiria developed his own […]
Beyond the link tax: journalism and the changing nature of the internet - Halifax Examiner
By Philip Moscovitch This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, September 17, 2024 By now, it feels like we have heard most of the arguments and theories about the decline of journalism: The industry was too slow to respond to the new ways of doing business ushered in by the internet; the people […]
Offline Is Not An Error
Stop treating it like one
Cloud vs. Data Center vs. Basement: The Programmers’ Self Hosting Delusion With The Cloud
AWS is now 18 years old and Google’s first cloud compute service, App Engine, was released 16 years old. One might think that cloud…
How to accidentally DDOS yourself
We had some performance issues last week. Entirely of our own making but not in the usual way. We nearly DDOS ourselves by sending out emails. We do a lot of analysis in Energy Sparks and, to be ho…
XML is almost always misused | Hacker News
Fundamental challenges with Infrastructure as Code imply the language doesn’t matter
All Infrastructure as Code tools face common fundamental challenges regardless of their supported configuration generation languages.
Attribution as the foundation of developer trust - Stack Overflow
The changing state of the Internet and related business models - Stack Overflow
Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models - Stack Overflow
Something About The SWF Makes Me Feel Icky - deadsuperhero
An idiot (Sean Tilley) talks about his feelings regarding the new Social Web Foundation. He's probably wrong, and you should flame him.
Roll up Terminals Into A Knowledge Base • RUNME
Isn’t it frustrating that remediation steps always disappear when we close the terminal after troubleshooting? Rollup terminals from Runme solve this issue and help in building your knowledge base.
Adventure Driven Development
Adventure Driven Development™ (ADD)Based on Courageative-Explorvelopment Methodology Draft 3 - 9/27/24 ©2024 Chris Athanas, All Rights Reserved. https://github.com/realityexpander https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisAthanas Link to The Epic Quest Chart PDF "For everything there is a sea...
Boredom Is the Silent Killer in Your IT Systems
An environment that values creativity, continuous learning, and calculated risk-taking can prevent boredom while building a resilient, adaptable team ready to tackle whatever challenges come their way.
Tech Is Eating Culture for Breakfast — TOBY ROGERS
There was a post on Farcaster recently talking about the movie Dazed & Confused and the time difference between when it was set and when ...
Post flow
A watershed* is land that drains through a river to the sea or into an inland body of water. That’s what came to mind for me when I read this from Dave Winer: If you want to help the open web…
On Enterprise Paywalls · @radekmie’s take on IT and stuff
Have you ever decided to migrate off some playform only because some of the features you needed were “Enterprise only”? Well, I did, and that’s frustrating.
Levenshtein edit distance applications
Edit distance, more formally known as Levenshtein distance, is a practical way to measure how different two blocks of text are.
The Other Bubble
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom.
In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team
WordPress Vs. WP Engine? It Doesn’t Matter. It’s Bad For The Internet.
The co-founder of WordPress steps in it, repeatedly, in a forest-for-the-trees fight with WP Engine that makes me feel sad for the open internet.
CNN’s Paywall: A Harbinger For Free News Access?
Word that CNN is getting a paywall feels like a sign that good information is more expensive than ever.
Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a good opportunity to reach across R…
AI for Breakfast
Happy Friday! What's good?
No surprise, this email has a slight shift of focus this morning – the new book project demands it. Typically, on Fridays, I send an email detailing the week's news about the business of health technology. For the next few months (at least), I'll be paying much
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of fingernail clippings
It was time to do some upgrades on the club's flyer screens. In the past, I had done that by ssh-ing in to each; turning off "Overlay"; rebooting; doing an update; turning on "Overlay"; and rebooting again. It was slow and error-prone and often ended up with a bricked system. It was a real "what the hell am I doing" moment when I realized that 32GB microSD cards are now $3.50 each, so I just ...
The Path to Autonomous Observability
Autonomous observability for system monitoring and management aims to use GenAI and machine learning to automatically detect, diagnose and resolve issues.