Technology Commentary

The weekly notes on human-AI partnerships, immersive connectiveness, tech societies and thing to do and experience. And thinking about the relationsship of AGI and cozytech.

Why are all these humanoids popping up? Some thoughts. And the latest in news on tech societies and human-AI partnerships.

In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York Times, tried AI trip planners for a Norway itinerary: Overall, Mindtrip — with its polish…

When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such a role for the clas…

It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That clever and sophisticated beats basic and straightforward mos...

Containerization has revolutionized the software industry, but using them blindly for everything without considering their drawbacks or…

Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CPU or a simple flipflop (the fundamental building blocks of a microchip).

Gathering and processing customers’ data via distributed cloud enables real-time experience no matter where the customers are on the globe.

As AI and API reliance soar, companies must shift from reactive oversight to proactive API management to enhance efficiency, security, and scalability.

Scott Galloway is a lead developer and software engineer with a passion for building web applications.

Design patterns help document software as an engineering discipline, but implementing examples is still the best way to solve new problems.

In most cases, aiming for a lower availability target might be worthwhile to attain a better balance, offering sustainable operations and a healthier work culture.

fruitful.school is an independently-run independently-run workshop series founded in 2020 by John Provencher and Laurel Schwulst dedicated to exploring ways artists experiment and publish to the world wide web.

For the final episode of our Good Web series, artist, designer, and educator Laurel Schwulst joins Mike to talk through her proposal for a PBS of the Internet. She describes how a PBS-like body that intentionally crafts the spaces, software, and information for a public good could crucial for creating an environment that rewards curisoity […]

Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas]…

Xe returns while on vacation where they built a new PC, made a SaaS to check web server headers, and re-evaluated how they think about complexity.

In The Soul’s Code, James Hillman says each of us is born with as much of a destiny, calling, mission, or fate, as an acorn has within it an oak tree. He also says “Reading life backwar…

Mastering the art of creating pull requests takes years, this article contains some tips and tricks that can help you supercharge your Pull Requests.

Allison Johnson for The Verge: Google’s AI tool helped us add disasters and corpses to our photos In our week of testing, we added car wrecks, smoking bombs in public places, sheets that appear to cover bloody corpses, and drug paraphernalia to images. That seems bad. As a reminder,

A look at why going multicloud is so vital for the stability, reliability and accessibility of your data.

In a modern car, your speedometer might look analog, but it is almost certainly digital and driven by the computer that has to monitor all sorts of things anyway. But how did they work before your …

For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets to ID badges. But the BBC reports — unsurprisingly — that the mag stripe’s days are…

If you’re like us, you’ve studied the mathematician [Euler], but all you really remember is that you pronounce his name like “oiler” and not much else. [Welch Labs], on the …

Serena OS is not just another operating system—it’s a playground for hackers, tinkerers, and Amiga enthusiasts pushing vintage hardware to new limits. Born from modern design principles and f…

Although Ethernet is generally considered to be a settled matter, its history was anything but peaceful, with its standardization process (under Project 802) leaving its traces to this very day. Th…

To preserve the benefits of open source, consider nuanced licensing approaches that balance openness with sustainability and security.

An overview of options to deploy mTLS on Kubernetes

Many as a service software that needs to deal with taxes, paychecks have their own way to receive and send files. Usually you upload them via some sort of forms, and then you can download paychecks them from some webpage.