Technology Commentary

Is there a "deeper lexicon" that could better condense the way commits are represented? Alloy.dev finds some basic changes can radically cut the number of lines that coders need to review.

How GitHub volunteers built an open source metrics dashboard for the World Health Organization and some best practices they picked up along the way.

Oracle’s form to access free cloud server space seems designed to discourage you from taking advantage of the offering. It’ll leave you frustrated.

As Elastic changes licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, its turnabout seems more like a business strategy than an embrace of the commons.

The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.

Reflections on a recent Paul Graham piece – and on the culture at Oxide

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

lsat protocol specification . Contribute to lightninglabs/L402 development by creating an account on GitHub.

DEC’s LAN Bridge 100 was a major milestone in the history of Ethernet which made it a viable option for the ever-growing LANs of yesteryear and today. Its history is also the topic of a recen…

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

And calling yourself a prompt engineer is dumb.

Telosys is a free code generator usable with different languages or frameworks : Java, JavaScript, Python, NodeJS, PHP, GoLang, C#, Angular, VueJS, etc

Yellicode, a free and extensible cross-platform source code generation engine.

Don't think of accessibility features as just for accessibility—they are features, helpful for everyone.

What do you do when a managed service runs out of disk space? Well, try everything and give up a few hours later, I guess.

Have you ever wondered how a request from a client application navigates its way to your server process? What magic do web server…

From the man who made emulators easy on Steam Deck.

Explore how continuous promotion addresses the limitations of traditional CI/CD pipelines.

Tool stacks and platforms that use a harmony-focused method can bring the fun back into development.

There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, 1most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories. This is also how I originally had used worktrees, but that didn't stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us

Oxide builds hardware but they sell hardware, culture, and expertise

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts