Technology Commentary

A reflective take from Alan on why DevOps endures, adapts, and remains a human-centered practice in an era of platforms and AI.

The jQuery team has released version 4.0, described by lead developer Timmy Willison as the “first major release […]

How ego-driven decisions cause software teams to fail, and how egoless development builds trust, better collaboration, and stronger products.

Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…

The moderate case on AI

Hardened containers are like patching a leaky pipe rather than truly solving the problem. The real fix is building trusted software from the source.

In production, autonomy can lead to serious problems like runaway costs and silent policy violations. Learn why a control-first architecture is the key.

The context gap is what actually determines how much of AI's potential productivity gain your team captures this year.

A zero-click vulnerability in the tasks.json file allows attackers to silently hijack Cursor’s instructions across code repos.

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

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.