Technology Commentary

Is it possible to build software that respects and reinforces a “sense of place,” rather than regressing to some placeless, generic style?

Can software feel rooted in the place where it was made?

How my Hudson Valley projects have gotten me thinking about how to imbue software with local flavor.

The definition of a subgroup is obvious, but the definition of a normal subgroup is subtle. An alternate definition and generalizations to category theory.

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual al…

AI tools are already automating large parts of the software engineering role – but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics?

S3's interface doesn't allow it to stand in for a filesystem

Listen, everyone lives different lives so I can’t speak to anyone else’s specific situation, but the biggest hurdle I currently have with using the Vision Pro is that I can’t use it while I’m around my wife. I can hang out with her and use an

Have you heard of the concept of Database Sharding?

Marques Brownlee’s viral Fisker Ocean car review highlights the all-too-common pitfalls of shipping before the firmware is ready.

Stryker Mutator: Test your tests with mutation testing.

Enterprises should insist on a standard model for application networking that works as well for hypervisor and bare metal-based workloads as for Kubernetes.

A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI

Open source code makes a lot of difference when it comes to how you can tailor an OS, adjust it to meet your needs, and fit it to the required tasks – whether large or huge.

Code is type-checked, interpreted, linted and/or compiled, automatically finding issues and errors. Why not do this for configuration, too?

Maritime Morse code was formally phased out in 1999, but in California, a group of enthusiasts who call themselves the “radio squirrels” keeps the tradition alive.

Discover the ideal JavaScript bundler for your projects! Explore the differences between Rollup, Webpack, and Parcel in this article.

Collaboration and new research on productivity

Golay codes are practical error correcting codes. They were used, for example, on the Voyager missions. They also have deep mathematical connections.

Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner

How much data can you reliably store on a piece of paper? Experimental results.

Are you looking for the real computer revolution? Join the club! Future of Coding is a podcast and community of toolmakers, researchers, and creators working together to reimagine computing.

Learn from architectural design decisions made when bringing open source vector database technology to the cloud.

Over the past few months, I've been thinking a lot about intellectual property and the underlying moral and legal issues. In blogging and tweeting about these thoughts, I've tended to use the word...

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

Happy Friday! What's good? I am doing a bit better than last week, thanks for asking, although I haven't written anything and, more shockingly perhaps, haven't run all week. This is the first time since I started running (in 2022) that I have missed runs. Considering the injury rates among