Technology Commentary

One of my early questions about ChatGPT was, “Will it have a positive second derivative?” Will the use of ChatGPT accelerate the rate at which ChatGPT improves? This is a useful question to ask of any new technology. If a technology has a positive second derivative,…

The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.

In a thread on the various socials, my friend necopinus pointed out that my essay on AI, A Camera Not An Engine, effectively maps the generative potential we’ve discovered latent in AI models of hu…

A series about hive minds, Borgs, egregores, and other emergent beasts

A speculative series on a future unified theory of AI and crypto

Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality

Computer science is about everything except I/O and application development is about nothing but I/O.

What O’Reilly Learning Platform Usage Tells Us About Where the Industry Is Headed

How Shards Transforms Game Development by Streamlining Execution, Enhancing Concurrency, and Turbocharging Performance

By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...

IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot

IoT telemetry at scale? MQTT, Zilla, and Kafka can make it happen.

The Evolution of Database Schema Management

I wrote the analysis of “useless sugar” features of Ruby for two months, and I regret nothing.

The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.

I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution

Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?

The Observability Query Language Standard working group seeks to establish a unified standard for observability languages.

Commissioned: The adage that you can’t manage what you can’t measure remains polarizing. Some leaders lean on analytics to improve business processes and outcomes. For such folks, aping Moneyball is the preferred path for execution. Others trust their gut, relying on good old-fashioned human judgement to make decisions. Regardless of which camp you IT leaders […]

In this era of heightened data sensitivity, responsible development of generative AI is not just a legal requirement — it's an ethical imperative.

I continue to be bullish on AI and that skepticism extends to the “AI-focused” products that are coming out this year. Case-in-point: a pin…

To watch an online video you can either stream or download it. Find out the differences and when to use each in a look at streaming vs. downloading.

What are the major tech trends set to redefine the industry in 2024? Michael Cote unveils his key predictions.

In the last 25 years we have delivered on our mission to make DNS more dependable and trustworthy. These are our plans for the next five years.

When it comes to the digital world we might need a device that reverses the usual charge of wants. Instead of a small thing in your pocket that gives you exactly what you want to see at any minute, this … Continue reading →