Technology Commentary

GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ...

Dogpile is a metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing, and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.

A multi engine semi-parallel search interface automatically searching 20+ search engines 3 at a time. Allows for continued searching options and Boolean/proximity operators.

Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of the shuffling of bits and allocating in memo…

I don’t like HDMI. Despite it being a pretty popular interface, I find crucial parts of it to be alien to what hackers stand for. The way I see it, it manages to be proprietary while bringing…

A dozen years ago (how can it be so long? How can he have been so prescient?) Anil Dash wrote “the Web We Lost“. This isn’t our web today. We’ve lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we’ve abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To […]

The latest artificial intelligence use cases appear to be built specifically for managers and executives, and literally nobody else. That’s a problem.

How to navigate the "half-life of knowledge" and create a fulfilling career through focusing on fundamentals and building a personal vision.

We use it to enhance efficiency and ensure integrity A new report says few people are using “much-hyped” artificial intelligence (AI) products such as ChatGPT.  Researchers surveyed 12,000 people inRead More »How Agilebase Uses AI

Practical calculation using numerical tables is not simply a matter of looking up numbers. You had to be more sophisticated than that.

I have often complained about the lack of good modern tooling for systems development. I finally decided to sit down and write up a collection of ideas and concepts I wish someone would steal and develop into a fully fledged modern integrated development environm

Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.

14 of the best papers out of the 2260 papers presented at the 2024 ICLR conference, in 4 sections covering Image Generation, Vision Learning, Extending Transformers, and State Space Models.

This week, another round of AI news. I am thinking about applying agonistic pluralism in generative things and urban robots. And others -more-than-human- news and events to visit.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

A piece of growing internet.

Inventing new materials is only the first step. Getting them into mass production and use is just as hard.

Startup Userfront takes on the complexity of scaling customer accounts for SaaS companies as they grow.