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The Great Untangling: Part 2 – Paving a path to the new frontier. I've been feeling a growing sense of anxiety related to account lockou...

The Great Untangling: Part 1 – Shaping the foundations. To sufficiently express my identity as a netizen I require: global group messag...

This post is the preamble of a 5-part series called The Great Untangling. The following four posts have already been published and are li...

I've previously written about the multi-app platform of my dreams as a community professional: The Community OS stack. While undeniably ...

By Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman Content moderation is at the heart of operating a social media platform—removing, promoting, demoting, and labeling content factors significantly into users’ experiences. It’s inevitably controversial, difficult to do accurately and safely, and a focal point for external pressure. A young man in Manila, Philippines, explains his work as a […]

Infrastructure teams will benefit hugely from increases in standardization and automation — and no more ticket ops.

There’s an article in the Register this week about Bruce Perens’ “Post-Open Zero Cost Licence”. In brief, Perens is aiming to try to fix one problem that some people have wi…

The problem that’s bugging me about the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin dunk-fests: A seeming discouragement of hardware innovation.

If you ever wondered just what it takes to build a modern device like a phone, you should have come to last year’s Supercon and talked with [Jose Angel Torres]. He’s an engineer whose p…

The energy sector is undergoing a monumental shift as the power grid struggles to accommodate growing demand and the complexity of modern energy systems.

Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

If we shift our observability focus to the left, we can address issues in CI/CD before they escalate, as described by two Grafana engineers.

GitHub is working with the OSS community to bring new supply chain security capabilities to the platform.

Tech’s past tells us that the future doesn’t unfold along a predetermined timeline. Despite the rocky starts of Humane’s AI Pin & Rabbit’s R1 device, we’re heading to a promising e…

What is DevOps, anyway? It's been around for 15 years, and has grown into an industry - generating countless tools and quite a revenue. And yet, many people can't answer the question with certainty.

Meta is once again facing investor skepticism over its spending; I can understand reasonable doubt in the short and medium term, but the long-term bet on Mark Zuckerberg still seems worth making.

Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in scale is a change in principle.

Some of you may know but I’ve been working on a book putting all the best practices, anecdotes, code samples, and experiences I’ve had over the last handful of years into a book to help others grow and scale small companies in a way that is resilient and sustainable. My book,

Unleash Your Coding Potential: Why the Terminal Beats the Mouse Every Time

The Llama large language model claims to be open source, but OpenInfra COO Mark Collier says it is anything but.

As it grapples with massive scaling, Pfizer has added a principal engineer layer and a platform to drive and measure developer satisfaction.

Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner in extra time in a crucial match—an FA Cup s…

How can we save time switching from one approach to another? Ideally everything would be decoupled and independent, right? Just hide it behind an interface!

Introduction

Where did the IMEI number come from, why is it so freaking long, and why does your phone need it? If you’ve ever wondered, we’ve got you covered.