Technology Commentary

I continue to work through my worries about where whe are. I’m still thinking about where I stand in an industry that no longer seems to care about what it makes.

How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases

Uncover the power of data architecture patterns and tools in Part 3. Discover the future of data modeling and engineering.

Mike Morgan uses his skills as a master luthier to build kayaks and other small skin boats by hand, based on traditional designs.

The Coder’s Playbook

The skills that we seek so furiously are skills that we can teach. Mission Cloud explains how it built its own training program.

How much is a degree from a prestigious university worth? The answer is a bit difficult to answer because there are many cofounding factors: people from the connected class  (folks that ‘know people’) tend to attend the most prestigious universities, and they also tend to do well professionally. It is likely that highly connected people … Continue reading Peak credentialism

In the midst of change, every once in a while, take a breather, consolidate gains and create meaningful standards for your organization.

Maybe the reason why social networks fade away over time is simply generational. Picnic, an emerging social network with momentum, exemplifies this point.

RailsGraph: Interactive and queryable graph, making it easy to explore, and unlock insights from complex applications with ease!

Harry McCracken: How I Finally Learned to Love ChatGPT When I struggled to come up with a brief, clear headline for last week’s newsletter, I pasted the text into the chatbot and asked for suggestions. I liked one of its ideas more than any of my own, and used

Yeo Kheng Meng is a Singapore-based embedded security researcher who mixed the past with the future, by building a DOS client for ChatGPT and HuggingFace.

With all the significant changes in the industry, one thing has remained the same: companies are committed to driving productivity and efficiency throughout their organizations, and we continue to help our customers and community deliver both.

Many companies are undergoing budget cuts and layoffs, but what if this instability could be used to improve development practices?

Don’t worry, colors are simple! As simple as numbers, dates, names, addresses… uh-oh.

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Sara Korolevich: Insights From American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace This study is full of fascinating numbers, but I wanted to call out a couple in particular. 57% of American workers — 53% of Boomers, 49% of Gen Xers, 59% of Millennials, and 65% of Gen Xers

by Robert M. Pirsig

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

Here On The Ground Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

David Pierce: The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose In a way, I’ve come to see “24 hours + of pure black screen in HD!” as a perfect microcosm of YouTube. YouTube is part entertainment platform, part information library… and part tools repository. It

It’s 24 hours long, it’s just a black screen, and it has 40 million views. WHAT.

Over the past few months, hundreds of tech workers have taken to social media to discuss low-stress job options. Some say they're burnt out.

I heard about these mythical programs that find optimal code through a brute-force search, but I didn't know how they worked. So I made one.

This is a guest post from Jamie Tanna. Enjoy. Dear new developer, Our jobs and lives are full of repetition, and one of the beauties of being developers is that we can take steps to automate away s…