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At what point does it make sense to 3D print a part compared to opting for injection molding? The short answer is “it depends.” The medium-sized answer is, “it depends on some bac…

You are guaranteed to make someone upset.

Feature flags and preview environments are popular for managing microservices rollouts and testing. Learn the pros and cons for specific situations.

Balancing intellectual property rights with technological advancement as AI evolves remains a significant issue.

Thinking about the globalization of the computer industry through a tech company so American it prominently promoted its birth on an Iowa farm on its packaging.

Jason Kottke, one of the blog elders and author of Kottke.org, celebrated Dave Winer’s 30th blog anniversary by calling him “one of the purest of the pure bloggers.” To that, Dave asked Jason what …

Why CTO, biggest challenges faced and how Gregor overcame them

The following observations were compiled with software engineering in mind, as I identified them while working in that discipline. However, these practices apply universally.

Posted on Friday 11 Oct 2024. 942 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

The lack of objective definition of good search creates huge hazards when creating search, RAG, AI solutions

Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago...

According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim ...

No.328 — The destructo test ⊗ Seeding futures for wellbeing ⊗ AlphaChip transformed computer chip design ⊗ Tiny prairies for sustainability boons

Meet the Lab and the Crowd

Based on my experiences convincing people it's cool

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

'We're not just a company, we're a family!' It's a nice sentiment, sure. But it's also a load of crap.

An opportunity to learn new things is a great reason to pursue side project.

This article explores how autonomous agents could be applied to API caching to enable intelligent data retrieval.

Cozy is a human-centric, open source and french personal cloud that gather all your data for more services, control and security.

We withdraw to private spaces to feel safe, as Maggie Appleton writes.

Coziness can drive the care and cooperation needed for a world’s inhabitants to design and build systems geared towards emergence and interestingness together. In this sense, Autonomous Worlds are uniquely compatible hosts for cozy games.

An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web

Happy Friday! What's good? I've picked up many, many new subscribers to Second Breakfast this week. Welcome. And thank you all for making me feel like my decision to re-enter the ed-tech fray and write another book is a good one. I started Second Breakfast because I very much didn't

In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript

Jason Rodriguez is a slightly jaded—but ultimately hopeful—tech worker. Working at GitHub.

No.327 — What’s a Brain? ⊗ The world’s weirdest library ⊗ A strategic simulation ⊗ Nvidia just dropped a bombshell

The tale of the founder of GoDaddy, a Vietnam vet who figured out the formula for getting regular people to buy domain names.