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Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all, computers are good at math, and making a calculator isn’t exactly blazing a new trail, right? But [Chad Nause…

Actor, released by The Whitewater Group, Inc. and later Genesis Development Systems, is an object oriented programming language and environment similar to Smalltalk. It is a completely Windows-native environment, and was among the early applications written for Windows. Actor 2 ran under Microsoft Windows 2, and Actor 1.0 runs under Windows 1.

Posted on Tuesday 11 Feb 2025. 2,995 words, 24 links. By Matt Webb.

Design, deploy, and grow feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

You just haven't noticed yet, says journalist Matt Muir

We’ve spent more than two generations and trillions of dollars building the internet. It is, arguably, humanity’s most ambitious technological

The message hidden inside DeepSeek's R1

No.343 — Archigram keeps the dream alive ⊗ The META Trending Trends ⊗ AI to revolutionise fundamental physics ⊗ Inventing the Renaissance

wingolog: article: baffled by generational garbage collection

Digital technology and algorithmic recommendations have, as the story goes, segmented society into a million little data-driven designations, where we all watch and listen to different content – a radical individualization that has shattered any shared consensus about culture or politics, about reality. Even the classroom, particularly thanks to "personalized education,

BuzzFeed, the ultimate social media team player, decides that it needs a social media platform of its own. In the process, it gave us a crazy new buzzword.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

As databases scale, data distribution and consistency become harder to manage.

The object store, once a somewhat niche technology, is now becoming a fundamental building block of the modern cloud.

Agentic AI uses the collective intelligence of multiple agents to automate decision-making processes, revolutionize industries, and drive transformation.

According to the federal government, WebAssembly could and should be integrated across the cloud native service mesh sphere to enhance security.

Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

The avatar library you've always been looking for. Create avatars for your profiles, designs, websites or apps. Piece by piece or based on a seed.

Create your own free avatar online and share it with your friends!

Opt in vs. Opt out email and marketing preferences - which method should you choose for your web form?

Explore the tech predictions from 1999 and how they shaped today’s technology, from smart gadgets to artificial intelligence advancements.