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Posted on Friday 19 Jul 2024. 1,601 words, 29 links. By Matt Webb.

Brett Solomon shares insights from 15 years as Access Now Co-founder and Executive Director.

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

The Philosophy Behind Monorepos

The Philosophy Behind Monorepos

Make your tools work better for you.

Designing combinatorial digital circuits seems like it should be easy. After all, you can do everything you want with just AND, OR, and NOT gates. Bonus points if you have an XOR gate, but you can …

The processing power of modern game consoles is absolutely staggering when compared to the coin-op arcade machines of the early 1980s. Packed with terabytes of internal storage and gigabytes of RAM…

A summary of my time at Brighton Ruby 2024.

Using spreadsheets in platform engineering is manual and error-prone, failing to provide a centralized single source of truth for development teams.

When adding or changing code, don't forget the most important thing: never mess with the main repo.

Following the lean approach can help us significantly improve Kubernetes ROI, improve workload performance, and save time spent on maintenance and troubleshooting.

The goal is to create an environment where your DevSecOps teams can thrive with AI superpowers built into their tools, backed by the appropriate leadership.

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Ars' leak analysis shows a large "Games" department and a very well-paid "Admin" team.

On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Facebook internal development started out on Subversion with a Git mirror but switched to Mercurial for source code […]

Crafting Original AI Art

An overview of the challenges in assigning field weights in a library catalog. This uses the example of a book about Hillbilly Elegy to explain demonstrate where challenges arise.

Personal blog of Marc Coquand.

Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you […]

I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.  I get it. Everybody wants something to be excited about.

What is Crossplane? If you don’t already know, Crossplane is billed as an: Open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate polic…

By bridging the gap between dev and ops teams with automated resource specifications, you can create a more harmonious and efficient deployment process.

Whether you’re sitting on a goldmine of data, looking to make things run smoother, or itching to share your top ideas, APIs are your ticket to a more connected, more profitable world.

I started programming in GW-BASIC on an IBM PC clone running MS-DOS. Back then, many so-called home and business computers came bundled with a BASIC interpreter, mostly made by or licensed from Microsoft. They all looked similar. You were greeted by a screen with a READY or OK prompt and a blinking cursor waiting for your input. The “screen editor” and interpreter were all in one in the true sense of the word – they weren’t bolted together like the separate text editors and interpreters/compilers we use these days…

We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. Imagine, for a m…