Technology Commentary

Posted on Thursday 12 Feb 2026. 1,020 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

The coming of AI means that humanity's destiny is (mostly) out of our hands.

On the modern poor.

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

Type systems verify properties of programs. Production correctness is a property of systems. The gap between these is where the interesting failures live.

My recent rumination about “The Greatest Invention Is…” triggered some thinking around my long-held beliefs about the duality of technology. It left me brooding over the weekend about t…

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Une suite cohérente d'outils open source, sécurisés et simples d'utilisation, conçus pour aider les agents publics à créer, organiser, décider et collaborer en toute confiance.

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How we built a YAML-to-C++ code generator in PgScript, eliminated 559+ lines of boilerplate, and made ECS components 6x faster to create

Ah man, here we go again.

A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.

Last week I started using some of the new coding agents properly. Not in a careful, experimental way, but properly -- for three days on rqlite. Claude Code. Copilot CLI. Tools I had yet to fully integrate into how I write software. If you know the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine -- where Kirk…

Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.

For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …

A lot of people in the small web space have a tendency to get intimidated by the idea of making their website accessible. This, of course, results in many websites being inaccessible for many people. But when you’re just one person, meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is

Kirsty Roth is CTO of Thomson Reuters, the content-driven technology powerhouse that provides information and tools for the professions, a position that puts her in ...

If you need something to run every week and you’re tired of being the scheduler… Use GitHub...

In 1988, Donna Haraway proposed the concept of "situated knowledges" grounded in individual and community perspectives, as opposed to knowledge grounded in "a conquering gaze from nowhere". Gary Marcus has criticized Large Language Models and what Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna call their "synthetic text-extruding machines" (STEMs) for lacking

Following the prompt registry idea to its logical conclusion.

The rise of AI coding tools is a stress test on open source software business models.

After I published my “velocity is the new authority” essay, a reader and dear friend emailed and asked if my framework explained the fraught relationship between media and the technology …

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A tech worker's reflections