Technology Commentary

Artificial-intelligence models are typically used online, but a host of openly available tools is changing that. Here’s how to get started with local AIs.

The language Go hails from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions. My generation of strivers has a lot to learn.

Matt Mullenweg unleashed a no-holds-barred tirade at WP Engine, which has been commercializing WordPress since 2010.

Don’t buy what Zuckerberg is selling.

Most of us have some form of an on-the-go toolkit, but how much thought have we put into its contents? \there’s a community of people who put a lot of thought into this, and EMF Camp have put…

Considering the legacy of rear-projection televisions, the most efficient route to a big-screen TV in the pre-LCD era.

“Welcome aboard to BigCo!” “Thanks! I’m excited to be here. This is my first tech job, even if it is just an internship.” “We’re going to start you off wit…

Back in August, Murat Derimbas published a blog post about the paper by Herlihy and Wing that first introduced the concept of linearizability. When we move from sequential programs to concurrent on…

A while back we got an anonymous complaint that Hackaday was “elitist”, and that got me thinking. We do write up the hacks that we find the coolest, and that could lead to a preponderance of gonzo …

There are various situations that warrant additional keyboards on your desk, and inputting a second language is definitely a good one. That’s the idea behind KanaChord, which generates Unicod…

Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in the United States. That was the case with the Tandy Pocket Computers, which were in …

(This was originally posted on a social media site; I’ve revised and updated it for my blog.) The other day a friend asked me a pretty …

If you are a retrocomputer person, at least in North America and Europe, you probably only have a hazy idea of what computers were in the Japanese market at the time we were all buying MSDOS-based …

Swallowing the spatio-temporal vortex of high volume transactions in the 21st century

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that …

Raw network sockets are a curious beasts, as unless you have a strong urge to implement your own low-level network protocol, it’s a topic that is probably best left to the (well-paid) experts…

Fixing problems that shouldn't exist

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The rumor mill is picking up steam that Intel might become the target of a takeover by Qualcomm. That feels game-changing and dramatic, doesn’t it?

The original Kodak camera changed photography forever.

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.

Introduction

As an independent AI researcher, I’ve spent countless hours working with large language models, particularly those boasting 70 billion…

Paid subscribers to Second Breakfast learned on Monday that I'm toying with writing another book. And surprise surprise, it'll explore artificial intelligence, teaching, and learning – the long history of "intelligent tutoring systems," sure, but more of a series of provocations about philosophy, science, and popular culture – the kind of stuff

Powerpipe dashboards can now connect not only to Steampipe but also to SQLite and DuckDB. This creates a combinatorial explosion of possibilities, including dashboards that use SQL to visualize lar…

This article explores how autonomous agents are revolutionising dynamic scaling in API integrations.

you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike

Read how we’re scaling PostgreSQL at the petabyte scale to power our query monitoring feature, Insights.

Learn how Airbyte leverages the low-code CDK and the Connector Builder to build and maintain hundreds of API connectors efficiently.