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Refuting the common and flawed argument of

“I built a Redis-compatible cache that handles 25,000+ concurrent connections on my Laptop. Here’s how Elixir made it possible.”

Discussing pros and cons of different approaches to handling software versions

Explore the original 6502 BASIC—now open source! Dive into retro code, history, and emulators. Fork it, run it, and relive computing's roots.

A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

Exploring the surprising parallels between football and software.

Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?

My system worked exactly as I hoped it would.

Posted on Friday 22 Aug 2025. 649 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Proposal for SXSW 2026 on Crafting Collective Protocols for Immersive AI Worlds

Accountability is a mechanism that achieves better outcomes by aligning incentives, in particular, negative ones. Specifically: if you do a bad thing, or fail to do a good thing, under your sphere …

What I like best about Keith Teare’s latest essay, Who Owns The Front Door to AI? If it isn’t you, its game over, is that it sounds like he’s setting up the case for personal AI. …

Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple, on Mastodon: What causes bad passkey experiences By listening to lots and lots of feedback, I’ve learned that if someone’s main experience with passkeys is with a password manager that doesn’t natively integrate into the OS it’s running

The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New York papers almost immediate…

I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.

Reading back over my preceding posts on this topic, it's fair to say I've been fumbling around quite a bit since first deciding to take on my project of building a language server for OPL, which makes

: Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts

Microbloggoverse entanglement Not long ago SocialHub featured a long thread about fragmentation of SocialHub discussions due to the forum being federated. My own observation was that “becoming part of the fediverse” was a mixed bag (and on itself a fairly meaningless statement). On one hand we finally removed the member sign-up barrier, so that any fedizen can participate from their own fediverse account. On the other hand the “sense of community” deteriorated and AP-related developer discus...

Blender-inspired node-based image editors like PixiEditor and Graphite are looking beyond the Photoshop paradigm.

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