Technology Commentary

Today in material science news we have a report from [German Science Guy] about a new supermaterial which is as strong as steel and as light as Styrofoam! A supermaterial is a type of material that…

Since 2023, the rise of interest rates has caused a sea change in how software companies relate to their engineers. It’s harder to be a software engineer now…

Everything will change.

Stop falsifying your motivations.

This essay explores visually how keeping data and AI on‑device could empower not only users, but also companies.

That's a long time in the microwave.

"It will make you stop and look at poles and antennas and will remind you how much digital technologies owe to the technological elements of the 19th century." –– Regine reviews latest book by art and architectural historian Carlotta Darò.

Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming, and fundamental human understanding of programming-are likely to become

The world's smallest VR headset: ultra-light form factor weighing just 107 grams with an unbelievable 116° field of view and eyetracking.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Because yes, I used to write code that “just worked”… until it didn’t.

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine and Raft for consensus. Ten years ago, I tagged the first release of rqlite—a project I started to explore distributed consensus, to learn Go, and to build something useful. I had no roadmap, no plans for scale, and certainly no…

If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that …

Protect Systems from the Foundation Up—Before Velocity Outpaces Safety

What’s a smartphone in today’s world ? It’s the object in everyone’s pocket that gets thrown away in 2.7 years lifespan. It’s a little bit more for an iPhone but that’s the industry average. And as everyone already strolls around with it glued to their hands, increasing the number of sales for this product, could mean … Continue reading "The real smartphone (and environment) killer? The Operating System."

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

Traditional tests don’t guarantee a bug-free system; a passing test only confirms that the tested scenario behaves as expected.

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special…

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

BULLSHIT! That’s what I found myself yelling at a recent board meeting, unimpeded by my usual filters of propriety or self-restraint. But I couldn’t help myself. The board was debating …

A personal mind dump on operating systems

Earlier this month we covered the brewing controversy over libogc, the community-developed C library that functions as the backbone for GameCube and Wii homebrew software. Questions about how much …