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I was introducing a friend to Serial Experiments Lain and when we got to the episode where the Knights of the Eastern Calculus are doing an infodump on MAJIC-12, Vannevar Bush, John Lilly and Ted Nelson, I made a comment about Nelson and my friend said, "Wait, these people are real??" So then I got to tell the story about the time I met him. He came to Netscape to, basically, yell at us for ...

It's not just you – things really are getting worse

I just read two “reviews” of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, one from John Gruber and another from Nilay Patel. I put “reviews” in quotes because I think these two write ups are very different in how they approached their respective pieces. Nilay’s review is more of a traditional

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In a rare visit back to TwitterX, I fortuitously stumbled across a conversation between the prolific author Steven B. Johnson, now editorial director of Google Labs (who knew?), and This Week in…

aka “New Year, New Philosophies” (via Shop blog) In 2023, I finally got the activation energy to learn and setup Shopify and launch my o...

A headset, a spatial productivity platform, and a personal entertainment device.

Hello, welcome to the new publicinfrastructure.org! I hope you find it colorful and inviting. There’s a lot of information on this site because there’s a lot of different things we do, but my intention is to create a space that rewards curiosity while making it easy to locate just what you came here to find. […]

Musings of a dreamer who should have never left the analog era.

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Intel under Pat Gelsinger is reaping the disaster that came from a lack of investment and execution a decade ago; the company, though, appears to be headed in the right direction, as evidenced by i…

A bot can seamlessly pull project details or meeting notes with a simple chat command. Information now can come to you in real time.

Testing in production has long been regarded as a risky endeavor, often controversial among developers, testers and stakeholders alike.

Hobbes OS/2 Archive: "As of April 15th, 2024, this site will no longer exist."

The mixed-feelings reviews about the Framework 16 laptop show how complicated it is to pull off the hat trick of ambitious, powerful, and repairable.

Phoenix framework, the Elixir based web framework consistently ranks as the most admired in the world. Learn why it's so admired in our article.

We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

We built a Kubernetes cost-monitoring solution to eliminate unnecessary complexities and dependencies, support increased scaling, and provide better resource utilization.

Chromebook, ChromeOS and Google Chrome browser news

It's time to log out. I'll be putting the AboutChromebooks blog on hiatus for bit. Possibly for good. Here's what's next.

The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.

One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good.

The mouse is sorely missed.

In the vast landscape of computer operating systems, Linux stands out as a masterpiece - an art form that has revolutionized the way we interact with technology

This is the big one! Check out this list of programming design patterns you can leverage in your software development! Understand each design pattern in depth!