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With this new approach, the adventure is truly yours to choose without the trade-offs inherent in one-size-fits-all solutions.

For awhile now, I've had the thought that an economy based on renewable energy might return to using sailing ships as working cargo ships. A...

One of the things I find most interesting about solarpunk is that it embraces technology. Not any technology, mind you; people are very…

Was building a language to properly give people credit a bad idea? If no, why did it get so much pushback? Let’s re-assess the blog era’s most hated idea.

The automation of Idea Generation Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....

In 1995 I spent some time playing with some of the original voice recognition software. It worked, but it was a pretty frustrating…

For the last couple of months I’ve had an Octopus Home Mini in the house. I thought I’d share some first impressions. Firstly, what is it? It’s a small pink device that is designe…

Engineering organizations that are already widely using Infrastructure-as-a-Service to manage their cloud resources, are now looking to manage in-house deployments through Terraform and other IaaC platforms.

Embracing a Clean as You Code approach is the only way to deliver quality code quickly and without having to backtrack to remediate old errors.

The benefits of platform engineering and the three main approaches that successful teams use to empower developers to self-service infrastructure.

Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today

Small Technology are everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits.

A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.

Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting your coding journey, these seven talks are packed with insights that will challenge and inspire you. In the rapidly evolving world of software development, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of new languages, frameworks, and techniques. But as I journeyed through my career as a developer, I found that revisiting seminal talks from industry visionaries consistently provides me with fresh perspectives and enduring wisdom.

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Production outages are great at teaching you how not to cause production outages. I've caused plenty and hope that by sharing them publicly, it might help some people bypass part one of the production outage learning syllabus. Previously I discussed ways I've broken prod with PostgreSQL and with healthchecks. Now I'll show you how I've done it with Redis too.

Complex systems are inherently multifaceted and intricate. They are often not intentionally designed to be understood in an instant. This stands true for bot...

Elon Musk changed Twitter's name to X, a brand symbol which has a 50-plus track record of disappointment or worse, from Brand X to X-rated to generation X.

NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.

I have long considered Twitter to be one of the most important APIs to there. With its former status as the town square for the world, the Twitter API provided an unprecedented view into how our world works. Similarly the Reddit API provides the same unprecedented view into the “home page” for the web, revealing how the online, and even offline world works. The recent shifts towards monetization of the Twitter and Reddit API is a common strategy from the Silicon Valley API playbook, but it is also a sign of what is to come when it comes to building platforms, accessing information online, and how the Internet works.

After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of

Posted on Friday 28 Jul 2023. 1,356 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too

Over the last decade, a small handful of large platforms have become de facto arbiters of how people communicate and share information with one another. As concerns about that concentrated power an…