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The only thing to fear is failing to make the transition to AI-assisted programming

You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot

And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an easy

Tinyland is a project I invented in order to explore the ideas behind Dynamicland. I’ve been doing a bunch of tiny experiments with a few pals at the Recurse…

Goodhart's Law is a cruel master.

There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.

In another sign of Kubernetes maturity, platform engineering teams are bringing the self-service cloud operating model to users.

Shanea Leven, CEO of CodeSee, shares how her creative streak motivated her to solve a common legacy code problem in this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey.

Tech's most contentious debates end with people talking over each other, but they make way more sense viewed through the lens of inter-generational conflict.

Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand

Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colle…

Since Oracle has weighed in about Red Hat’s source changes, it’s time to take a look at the history of Oracle Linux. That takes us back to 2006, the world of enterprise computing, and i…

WebAssembly trajectory reflects similar cycles that happen with technologies, such as Java, containers. But when will it be ready for the enterprise?

Let’s start this with a short exercise:Think of all the places you’ve worked at, where you heard “we care about code quality”, “we’re willing to invest the time …

The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.

The End of Anonymized Data and What to Do About It

With Twitter’s stability looking less and less assured, and other social networks making decisions so unpopular as to cause overt user rebellion, many Web users are wondering how they are goi…

In this article, I will compare API Gateway with GRPC Gateway.

In the world of spectator sports, AI already has an important job: hiding, and reporting abusive comments made on the social media feeds of athletes.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.