Technology Commentary

Are we entering a new phase in AI with Apple Intelligence, capitalizing on embodied intelligence? And other news on human-AI partnering and robotic performances ao.

Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models "thinking different."

Posted on Tuesday 11 Jun 2024. 1,874 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.

Simple Mobile Tools was purchased and now does everything it used to refuse to. Fossify is a privacy-respecting fork.

Princeton is famous for its university, but the town is also known for its amazing ice cream shops. There are…

How should you structure your engineering organization? What are the boundaries of a team? In this blog post, we discuss organization design in the context of software development teams and explain how your business context should play into those decisions.

Posted on Friday 7 Jun 2024. 745 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Posted on Wednesday 20 Mar 2024. 2,867 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Is it a lifestyle?

Neatnik Notes

With the performance of modern CPU cores plateauing recently, the main performance gains are with multiple cores and multithreaded applications. Typically, a fast GPU is only so mind-bogglingly qui…

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for so…

Am feeling three distinct types of model emerge as I model the domain of bookings and appointments. The first two are well established, the third a pleasant surprise Business Logic Model: This mode...

Hardware hackers come from a variety of backgrounds, but among us there remains a significant number whose taste for making things was forged through growing up in a farm environment. If that&#8217…

[sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format, equipped with 64MB of RAM. This isn’t just a showpiece – this card …

The left hand, right hand, and jazz hands of the AI gods

Thoughts on the misadventure of udm14, or what I hope to gain from successfully reviving the single-serving site for a couple of weeks.

Yes, there's a PID 0! An explanation of what it is, and a quick walk through linux early boot code.

How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper

It turns out that the Spotify Car Thing is already open source, but you can't use it for anything else for a different reason.

If you were around when the IBM PC rolled out, two things probably caught you by surprise. One is that the company that made the Selectric put that ridiculous keyboard on it. The other was that it …

It was the dawn of the personal computer age, a time when Apple IIs, Tandy TRS-80s, Commodore PETs, the Atari 400 and 800, and others had made significant inroads into schools and people’s ho…

Don Estridge broke all of Big Blue's rules to create the home computer. The company would never forgive him for it.

We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The tit…

Four ginever glasses sit on a mirrored table at Distilleerderij’t Nieuwe Diep in Fevopark, Amsterdam. Only one manufacturer makes these glasses, and it’s closing. The distillery stockpi…

We use Req, but the internet speaks curl. CurlReq is the go-between.