Technology Commentary

We’ve often thought that it must be harder than ever to learn about computers. Every year, there’s more to learn, so instead of making the gentle slope from college mainframe, to Commod…

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games. Whil…

When it comes to getting retro hardware running again, there are many approaches. On one hand, the easiest path could be to emulate the hardware on something modern, using nothing but software to b…

Amazon’s recent announcement of their spec-driven AI tool, Kiro, inspired me to write a blog post on a completely unrelated topic: formal specifications. In particular, I wanted to write abou…

Ethernet is how we often network computers together, particularly when they’re too important to leave on a fussy WiFi connection. Have you ever thought about listening to Ethernet signals, th…

Colbert's cancellation looks political, but it's not. The show was a ratings winner, but a money loser. And the ratings for all of late night, like all of live TV, have been in decline fo…

The best Stratechery content from the week of July 21, 2025, including exaggerated rumors of Google’s demise, content and community, and computers as entertainment machines.

The switch from analog telephone exchanges to a purely digital network meant a revolution in just about any way imaginable. Gone were the bulky physical switches and associated system limitations. …

Posted on Friday 25 Jul 2025. 697 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Introduction There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by t...

For teams invested in open source observability and search, OpenSearch v3 is a clear opportunity to take a big step forward.

The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge or consent. It’s both redundant and inconsistent. You have hundreds, maybe thousands, of fragmented digital profiles that often contain contradictory or logically impossible information. Each serves its own purpose, yet there is no central override and control to serve you—as the identity owner...

By now you've seen one of these: Note the small print in the lower right: "VRM by Admiral." By "VRM," Admiral means this: What we're looking at here is the $.5 billion Consent Management Platform business, currently dominated worldwide by OneTrust, with a 40% market share. In the US, Admiral is the leading provider to publishers, giving…

2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the death of Mario Tchou, the Olivetti engineer who designed the Elea 9003, the first Italian computer, who died in a car crash at […]

When I suggest that people will game whatever metrics we put in place, I’m often met with shocked indignation. We would never game the numbers! And yet we do.

Developers’ workflows are fragmented, knowledge is siloed and coordination work is eating away at the time saved by AI.

To support complex RAG workloads at scale, an AI search platform must do far more than basic keyword or vector matching.

GitLab launches its AI Agent Platform in public beta for DevSecOps teams, including multi-agent workflows and IDE integrations.

Discover why startups like Flarion, LakeSail, and major companies are betting on Apache DataFusion — the Rust-based query engine that's reshaping data analytics.

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving fo…

It hasn’t been that long since humans figured out how to create power grids that integrated multiple generators and consumers. Ever since AC won the battle of the currents, grid operators hav…

For a brief, buzzing moment in 1983, the Coleco Adam looked like it might out-64 the Commodore 64. Announced with lots of ambition, this 8-bit marvel promised a complete computing package: a keyboa…

Cool trick demonstrating the illusion of an SVG drawing itself, ironically displayed here as a .gif Dive into the wonderful world of Scalable Vector Graphics with this introduction from Josh W. Com…

More from the annals of disappearing knowledge. Chris Lysy offers an incredibly detailed analysis of how evaluation resources on the web have become impossible to find. (He also has a solution for …

The first draft of my "Full-breadth Developers" post included a throwaway line like "Forget 10x developers; think 100x" but then I came to my senses and deleted it. https://www.businessinsider.com/surge-ceo-ai-100x-engineers-2025-7

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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