Technology Commentary

A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.

A major studio is apparently treating YouTube as a place to drop some of its archive films that have lost their cinematic luster. My mind is admittedly blown.

Following these suggestions could help today’s organizations fully realize the promises of agentic AI in 2025 and beyond.

From the user perspective, a slow digital experience is no different than one that’s down. Here are five actions you can take to improve performance.

For enterprises that are stuck in contracts with observability or other platforms that don't provide data federation, it's time to consider new solutions.

Learn several strategies to mitigate the impact of networking issues in mobile apps.

An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform

One of the best things about adulthood is that finally we get to, in most cases, afford ourselves the things that our parents couldn’t (or just didn’t for whatever reason). When [Yakroo…

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is that it was a system fo…

Which would you rather feel? The blast of a fire hose, or a cool, digital rain? That’s what we thought. Introducing Blue Rain — the fire hose that is the BlueSky feed, falling semi-cryp…

Occasionally, we get a tip for a project that is so compelling that we just have to write it up despite lacking details on how and why it was built. Alternatively, there are other projects where th…

Though it is many decades since paper tape was commonly used as a data input or storage medium, it still holds a fascination for many who work with computers. Over the years we’ve featured mo…

You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint and yellow paint makes …

Automated validation is key here — it involves running tests that compare your actual environment with what you’ve defined.

How we got Manila folders and envelopes, and what “Manila” means in the context of said folder. Hint: It’s not a color, and you may find the source surprising.

This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. ![A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THEREFORE A …

In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although thes…

This came up today at work and I realized that over my now-decades of cloud engineering, I have developed a very specific way of using tags that sets both infra dev teams and SRE teams up for succe…

On large language models, artificial intelligence, DeepSeek, and trying to find the middle lane between skepticism and surety.

Water from the melting polar ice caps could be subtly affecting the earth's rotation, throwing off the ultra-precise atomic measurements of time.

We take the idea of copying files across folders and drives for granted today, but the guy who invented the original tool considered it a leap of faith.

They say you don’t know what email’s all about until you’ve built a webmail client of your own. I guess I kind of get it now.

If you enjoy your Vision Pro, don't let this post imply that i think you're wrong to enjoy it. This is a personal blog with my personal experiences, not some neutral outlet trying to assign an objective score to each product. It’s been one year to the day since

I’ve held many different roles in my career, from developer to CEO and just about all kinds of positions in between, but I’ve always…

A few months ago, Hackaday’s own Al Williams convinced me to buy a couple of untested, returned-to-manufacturer 3D printers. Or rather, he convinced me to buy one, and the incredible success of the…

Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…

For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever used. They were everywhere, powerful for their day, and relatively affordable for schools and businesses. These minico…