Technology Commentary

Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level.

A running service provides runtime data so we can understand a service in the context of its environment, deployment and status.

With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, but now we’re back! This series is a monthly casual discussion with a team using OpenTelemetry in production. The goal is to learn more about their environment, their successes, and the challenges that they face, and to share it with the community, so that together, we can help make OpenTelemetry awesome!

Hello, You may already be aware of this, but HiCA is injecting arbitrary code/commands into the certificate obtaining process and acme.sh is running them on the client machine. I am not sure if thi...

Using new techniques, every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.

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Sometimes we lament how boring tech has become. I’ve definitely felt that blogging about tech is less fun than it used to be. So much of the conversation has had to move to market power, antitrust, and content policies as those have become more important than the cool new

Posted on Friday 9 Jun 2023. 1,205 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Ahead of PulumiUP, a virtual user conference on June 15 dedicated to IaC, presenters talk about how their organizations are enabling faster application development and navigating the challenges of legacy systems.

Seam carving (also known liquid rescaling) as is the most popular technique to crop and rescale images. Learn how it works and how you can implement it.

There is a common thread in the torrent of words that have followed the announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro headset — it portends a dystopian future and social isolationism. Most, if not all, picked…

I have been in Silicon Valley long enough to see it transform from a group of outlier revolutionaries to play-safe career chasers. Recently, I have watched arrivistes who, if not in technology, wou…

“Dust is a problem,” says Dyson — and for the company, a gateway into people’s lives.

Considering the reputation that pagers and beepers had as a tool for drug trafficking, especially in schools. Did it smother a legitimately useful technology?

In the beginning, there were harms. No, not yet. First, there’s an idea, a product, a company. You’ve made an app where people can express themselves in some way (text, images, videos, something el…

To restrict the spread of fake news on social media platforms, researchers designed an algorithm that can flag potential misinformation.

Understand the assembly code generated for various Rust concepts like enums, match, self-passing, arrays, option, and smart pointers. Learn how the Rust language is translated to assembly and how the compiler optimizes the code. Also, discover the performance implications of static and dynamic dispatch in Rust.

An Open Source Financial Switch to make Payments fast, reliable and affordable - juspay/hyperswitch

Tech companies want us isolated and constantly staring at screens because it drives profit

A look at Flatpak madness

The biggest criticism I’ve gotten about my reactions to the Apple Vision Pro have been around my suggestion that wearing a visor all day, including during your kid’s birthday party, is weird and no one is going to find that normal. Of note, several times in the article

A look at the differences, what they do, how they benefit the business and why organizations need all three to succeed.

Joining a new digital community can be an exhilarating and empowering experience. This has been observed on numerous occasions when people join new platforms such as Nostr, BlueSky, Farcaster, Post…

Why I am so excited about the Vision Pro, and why so many other people aren't.

Apple Vision is incredibly compelling, first as a product, and second as far as potential use cases. What it says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic.

One of the most important parts of a platform engineering strategy is one often overlooked. Take lessons from sales to boost adoption