Technology Commentary

A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine your digital rights.

Does it help? Not by itself but yes with a little more guidance.

[State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was a research computer system developed on a shoe…

[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two years later, in 1979, by the…

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish time cards and everything. I now realiz…

It is a movie staple to see an overworked air traffic controller sweating over a radar display. Depending on the movie, they might realize they’ve picked the wrong week to stop some bad habit…

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

Justin Searls quit social media by posting more. How, exactly, did he do that? By writing way too much Ruby code to cross-post his blog to all the social networks using an atom feed of his design. POSSE is an old idea: publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. That’s desirable, for sure, but not always easy to accomplish. POSSE Party is the new app Justin released so others can accomplish the same without all the work he went through.

I nominate agency as Word of the Year for 2025. I don’t nominate agentic, which is suddenly hot shit: See, agency is a noun, and agentic is an adjective. And, as Strunk and White taught us, W…

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

We are half way into Web 3.0 and there's a distinct pattern from previous iterations of the web that clue us into how it'll end.

Huge data centres are being built to handle AI computing but some experts say they aren't necessary.

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

How the virtual machine, a foundational element of cloud computing, found its modern footing after a couple of scientists proved a couple of theorems wrong.

2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones. I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone! And Fairphone will even sell you it with the G…

What the **** does that mean?

Writing isn’t just a way of communication. It is a way of learning about yourself and learning how to show up, how to speak, how to develop and wrestle with ideas. Learning to write is enabled by g…

AI is reshaping healthcare credentialing by automating verification, cutting approval times from months to days, and reducing billions in lost revenue.

The ever-enlightening Bruce Sterling recently published a piece on Medium titled Ancient Everyday Weirdness, which is part of a series of essays on different kinds of everyday weirdness. In the pie…

Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely.

Measuring the impact of Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, GPT-OSS, Nemotron, and all of the new entrants to the ecosystem.

The LEGO Smart Brick looks like any other 2×4. Same size. Same satisfying *click*. But inside? A 4.1mm ASIC — smaller than a grain of sand — running a real-time Play Engine that fuses motion, light…

The LEGO Group has introduced LEGO® SMART Play™, a new play innovation that brings LEGO creations to life like never before. The platform is powered by the LEGO SMART Brick, which is packed with gr…

The tide is going out - maybe for more than just programming