Technology Commentary

by Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman Traditionally, field guides focus on the natural world, offering descriptions of different species or families that help readers identify them. As this field guide is focused on social media, we will need a different locus than species or families for our taxonomy. We’ve settled on “logics.” We use “logic,” […]

We’ve still got time to make it better before it does

When working on Airbnb’s infra team, I struggled to grow from an L4 engineer to a senior/L5 eng. I came early, stayed late, and said yes to working on anything that needed help - I was as eager as a new grad could be.

Regular Expressions power many modern systems. But they are also very complex.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

I’ve known Larry Lessig for more than 25 years, and throughout that time, I’ve looked to him for wisdom – and a bit of pique – when it comes to understanding the complex int…

It’s now been 20 years of fighting with it sporadically and I still can’t figure out how to use launchctl to successfully automate tasks reliably on macOS. Such a frustrating piece of software.

On February 14th, it feels appropriate to express some love and appreciation for the many packaging efforts for our projects.

Don MacVittie explains we're in the 'dream world' of data - where the cloud-native stack realizes the dream of portable programming.

The vibe around generative AI is still one of a land rush since OpenAI unleased ChatGPT into the public sphere in late November 2022, with investors

I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author's thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…

No, Never Do isn't a new loop type though it can be what happens when you ASS-U-ME a default value for a loop variable. These are some . . .

Unmitigated API growth can bring negative consequences that could exacerbate insecure coding practices.

DoorDash introduces a fractional factorial design framework for business policy experiments that have demonstrated improvements in experimentation velocity.

Thoughts about the outcome of the NYT versus OpenAI copyright lawsuit

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

The biggest source of waste is not low performers or having too many employees. The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists. The number of skilled pragmatists in any given company is much larger than people realize and, therefore, represents a HUGE opportunity. But almost by definition, they are less visible.

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations

If you handed me the iPhone 16 Pro today and told me that I needed to have a written review of it done by tomorrow that helped people understand if it was a phone worth upgrading to, I could do it no problem. I’d have to leave out battery

I think it’s safe to say Kubernetes has “won” the cloud mindshare game. If you look at the CNCF Cloud Native landscape (and manage to not go cross eyed), it seems like most of the projects are some…

While the potential is staggering, AI development confronts a significant challenge: actually getting it into products.

24 hours is a long time

What is an API Gateway ? Benefits and Downsides of API Gateway

You can use this guide to get up to speed with Kubernetes as a developer. From its very basics to more intermediate topics like Helm charts and how all of this affects you as a dev.

What the **** does that mean?

Utilising the CPS transformation for code maintainability

It should shock no one to learn that Open AI's newer, better language model is an improvement over the old one, but if you aren't an active user of any of this newfangled AI stuff, it can be easy to lose track of just how much better things are getting and how quickly. If you subscribe to GPT Plus, ChatGPT will also implement the ReAct pattern for requests it thinks can be formalized, which is one way to mitigate hallucinations.

Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Can’t Find a Use for Anybody Else’s Though I’ve come to depend on my GPT, it’s the only one I use. I’ve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store

Discover how to reduce MTTR to boost service reliability. Find out how parallel scheduling from Checkly can directly minimize mean time to repair.