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The Year’s Best Online Video: A Complex Take On Empathy
The Year’s Best Online Video: A Complex Take On Empathy
One of the best videos of the year came from someone who once publicly quit YouTube. It’s a multi-hour epic—and it’s stuck with me for months.
·tedium.co·
The Year’s Best Online Video: A Complex Take On Empathy
Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt
Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt
Many AI apps are built on "vibes" — tweaking prompts until a demo works. But they fail in production. Real AI requires a full engineering ecosystem.
·thenewstack.io·
Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt
Nuon's Keyboard Culture
Nuon's Keyboard Culture
Nuon strongly encourages the use of split keyboards, which has fostered a passionate hobbyist culture among employees.
·nuon.co·
Nuon's Keyboard Culture
Communication Protocols
Communication Protocols
HTTP, WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, REST, and GraphQL
·systemdesignbutsimple.com·
Communication Protocols
What is Cloud FinOps and How Does it Work?
What is Cloud FinOps and How Does it Work?
FinOps practices accelerate business value realization, drive financial accountability, cost efficiency, trust and collaboration across organization
·netcomlearning.com·
What is Cloud FinOps and How Does it Work?
We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human
We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human
The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.
·windowscentral.com·
We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human
The Fall 2025 newsletter
The Fall 2025 newsletter
In this Fall edition of “Of Trees and Tries” we’re excited to share what we have been up to since the summer. If you were at IETF in Montreal earlier this month hopefully you got a chance to say hi to Benno (busy times as Nomcom chair), Luuk & Jasper
·blog.nlnetlabs.nl·
The Fall 2025 newsletter
A MyTerms Summary – ProjectVRM
A MyTerms Summary – ProjectVRM
MyTerms will give strength to the Internet’s fabric of human connections, through agentic agreements between people and the organizations that serve them. The Internet is peer-to-peer, by design. It supports agreements between equals, for the good of both. On that equality a massive amount of new and better dealings can be built, on stronger foundations…
·projectvrm.org·
A MyTerms Summary – ProjectVRM
The time element should actually do something
The time element should actually do something
A common UI pattern is something like this: People do lots of stuff with that “4 hours ago.” They might make it a permalink: Or they might give it a tooltip to show the exact datetime u…
·nolanlawson.com·
The time element should actually do something
Netflix Live Origin
Netflix Live Origin
Xiaomei Liu, Joseph Lynch, Chris Newton
·netflixtechblog.com·
Netflix Live Origin
Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS
Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS
This architectural shift gives customers control over their data and costs while vendors focus on innovation. A win-win for cloud software of tomorrow.
·thenewstack.io·
Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS
SQLite DB: simple, in-process, reliable, fast
SQLite DB: simple, in-process, reliable, fast
I love simplicity. Complexity is our eternal enemy and Simplicity is beautiful; rarely something is as simple as SQLite: a single-file, in-process database. It runs inside our application, there is no need for a separate database server.
·binaryigor.com·
SQLite DB: simple, in-process, reliable, fast
On insight debt | ByteSauna
On insight debt | ByteSauna
Insight debt is the hidden tradeoff of AI-generated code: faster output today, harder maintenance and lost flexibility tomorrow.
·bytesauna.com·
On insight debt | ByteSauna