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Last updated June 20th, 2025 Like a lot of the Ruby programming community (and despite having a real blue checkmark and over 20,000 followers), in late 2022 I…

You could tell from the API that the designers really understood the tech.

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

Machine learning technologies are revolutionizing industrial operations across sectors, creating unprecedented opportunities for efficiency and innovation. Today's manufacturing landscape is being res

Bill Gross has been here before.  Back when the Internet was young, when the dot-com wave broke across the monied shoals of Wall Street opportunism, Gross built a world-changing company, took it pu…

In the politics of the future, left vs. right will yield to “up” vs. “down.”

Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science

To create truly regenerative communities, we must integrate critical life-support systems into the foundation of every village or neighborhood

If you care about performance, reliability and preparing for a more mobile-first future, it’s time to test and enable HTTP/3.

An “agentic” org is not an autonomous robot but a steerable power armor giving empowered humans more time to focus on the hard (or even fun) problems.

Why API marketplaces are for suckers and how developers can monetize their APIs using one of three options.

Given the advantages of declarative desired state and the tools that reconcile it, why aren't organizations adopting it faster?

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Explore why sharing thoughtful opinions on trends fuels personal growth, sparks meaningful discussion, and helps make sense of a noisy world.

One bad config in Google Cloud led to a worldwide outage, highlighting the need for strict validation, feature flags, and staged rollouts.

I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing …

To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know if someone is a Rust developer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. There is a move to put Rust everywhere, even in the Linux kernel. Not going fas…

The last time we checked in with the ELIZA archeology project, they had unearthed the earliest known copy of the code for the infamous computer psychiatrist written in MAD-SLIP. After a lot of work…

Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

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MOHAI’s annual Innovation Exchange brings together leaders and influencers from the Puget Sound region to take part in vital civic conversations that explore how this region’s diverse history has impacted innovation.

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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