Technology Commentary

I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...

It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing...

Why I think Slack and Slack-clones are actually a net negative for most organizations that use them.

This letter was led and organized by Fight for the Future, which is organizing actions against invasive ID checks through stoponlineIDchecks.org. A broad coalition of organizations dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access, rights for youth, privacy, and freedom of speech have issued a letter to US lawmakers warning that online ID check bills, which would […]

The untold story of betrayal, billion-dollar bets, and AI models that negotiate their own prices while Silicon Valley burns

Am I panning for gold or working at the sewage treatment plant?

In this episode of the IPv6 Buzz, we dive into two RFCs for discovering IPv6 prefixes: RFC7050 and RFC8781. Why these two? First, 8781 is being proposed as preferential to 7050. Second, I happen to be a co-author on the draft that proposes the preference for 8781 and as usual, I have “insights” to share. We start with some background on RFC 7050, including the limitations that led to the development of RFC 8781.

Looking back at Gamergate, a flash point in internet history, and what it has to tell us about our current moment.

HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...

The other day I was slicing a big loaf of dark Italian bread from a bakery; it is a pleasure to carve thick hunks of hearty bread to ready for the toaster. While I was happily slicing the loaf, the … Continue reading →

My popular single-serving site that works around Google’s AI snippets could, unfortunately, see an infusion of AI soon. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Discover how Warp terminal's AI-powered debugging feature can automatically detect, fix, and explain coding errors in your scripts.

I’ve been pondering something for a while now, but have held off “thinking out loud” about it because I was worried I might sound like a guy yelling at the kids to get off his law…

The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? [Ian Bogost] …

I have been on the phone a lot today—talking to Katie Fehrenbacher, Stacey Higginbotham, and Chris Albrecht. Surj Patel popped into town, and we had coffee. Call it kismet—…

If Bluesky were to disappear or be bought by a billionaire, their open protocol wouldn't help users replace it.

Clear, consistent semantic conventions for telemetry signals unlocks more sophisticated approaches to observability across the open source ecosystem.

IaC's scope has evolved far beyond simple automation, with implications that are reshaping how organizations manage their full IT infrastructure.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a bridging technology for AI agents and APIs. We speak with API management vendor Speakeasy about its uses.

Testing is a tough skill to master. Learn how Jim Weirich's necessary and sufficient rule can guide you to better test design and avoid common test smells.

DeepSeek’s Real Impact

Tapestry - Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.

How Jack Tramiel's Commodore invented the mass market computer

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Companies like Amazon and Apple do business in so many spaces that the cracks really show. Hence why Apple Intelligence looks like a hot mess right now.

Unicode's private use areas are used for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from coroporate logos to fictional languages. Example of Tolkein's Tengwar.