Unexpected license changes, rotating sponsors for projects and shrinking numbers of maintainers roil the open source world. Balance risks in choosing tools.

While Flux lost Weaveworks-employed Flux contributors, most of them continue their work on the project and it continues to have a significant and active contributor and user base.

A Web Developer's secret weapon

In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while.

"Were 'In the Penal Colony' to be written today, Kafka could only be speaking of an exercise machine. Instead of the sentence to be tattooed on its victims, the machine would inscribe lines of numbers. So many calories, so many miles, so many watts, so many laps." So begins Mark

By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.

"Reclaim Your Brain" acknowledges "the effect that the news cycle is having on us psychologically."

Algorithms feed content, not creativity. How the campaign for clicks has drowned true artistry amidst the noise!

Apr 07, 2024 — Topic: personal Note: This is not prescriptive advice. It is not meant to be read as: "How to land a job at Microsoft." It simply cover…

Can Google find solutions to the two challenges it has in the AI driven future? The transition it faces is hard, but necessary.

I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking… The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and

Free and open source software has become a modern commons, but now it's vulnerable. Freedom isn't sufficient to secure it for the future.

Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, shares the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.

Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it's not a recipe for success—it's survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.

There are good reasons to believe that – left to itself – the market for foundation models trends towards consolidation, says Max von Thun.

How Silicon Valley’s Race for Monopoly Inhibits Product-Market Fit

Dangers of DISTINCT and implicit assumptions in SQL queries

By Ricky Gardiner, Alex Hutter, and Katie Lefevre

Uptime Institute finds networking problems are the root cause of most IT service-related issues, while power is the primary source of data center downtime, and cyberattacks are becoming a significant contributor to outages.

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By getting more innovative with how we use git history, we've turned it into our secret weapon for faster, more insightful reviews.

A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to i…

Thunderbolt has always been a functionally proprietary technology, held secret by Intel until “opening” the standard in a way that evidently wasn’t enough for anyone to meaningful…

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications