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After many, many years of great service, I’m looking to replace Fastlane with plain Shell script files, which I hope will result in faster builds and…less Ruby.

Choosing the right policy agent to handle your authorization is not a simple task - each offers its benefits and has its drawbacks. How to choose? Read here.

I’m hunting for the woman whose use of an early chatbot turned the inventor against his creation.

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Learn how code review anxiety impacts developers and organizations, hindering collaboration and productivity and discover actionable insights to foster a positive code review culture.

Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?

I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismi…

First a small detour # I program in Objective-C and Swift daily, because those are the languages that Apple requires developers to use to build software for their platform. It’s not a strict requirement to use any of these two languages if you go cross-platform, but for good integration you would eventually have to write platform code in them. After using Swift for more than 5 years I can confidently say that it’s getting worse with each addition, very similar to how C++ ended up being the monster it is.

The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel efficiency and performance. But that requires computer oversight, which is why Kenyan engineer Peter Mbiria developed his own […]

By Philip Moscovitch This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, September 17, 2024 By now, it feels like we have heard most of the arguments and theories about the decline of journalism: The industry was too slow to respond to the new ways of doing business ushered in by the internet; the people […]

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AWS is now 18 years old and Google’s first cloud compute service, App Engine, was released 16 years old. One might think that cloud…

We had some performance issues last week. Entirely of our own making but not in the usual way. We nearly DDOS ourselves by sending out emails. We do a lot of analysis in Energy Sparks and, to be ho…

All Infrastructure as Code tools face common fundamental challenges regardless of their supported configuration generation languages.

An idiot (Sean Tilley) talks about his feelings regarding the new Social Web Foundation. He's probably wrong, and you should flame him.

Isn’t it frustrating that remediation steps always disappear when we close the terminal after troubleshooting? Rollup terminals from Runme solve this issue and help in building your knowledge base.

Adventure Driven Development™ (ADD)Based on Courageative-Explorvelopment Methodology Draft 3 - 9/27/24 ©2024 Chris Athanas, All Rights Reserved. https://github.com/realityexpander https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisAthanas Link to The Epic Quest Chart PDF   "For everything there is a sea...

An environment that values creativity, continuous learning, and calculated risk-taking can prevent boredom while building a resilient, adaptable team ready to tackle whatever challenges come their way.

There was a post on Farcaster recently talking about the movie Dazed & Confused and the time difference between when it was set and when ...

A watershed* is land that drains through a river to the sea or into an inland body of water. That’s what came to mind for me when I read this from Dave Winer: If you want to help the open web…

Have you ever decided to migrate off some playform only because some of the features you needed were “Enterprise only”? Well, I did, and that’s frustrating.

Edit distance, more formally known as Levenshtein distance, is a practical way to measure how different two blocks of text are.

Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team