Technology Commentary

Free and open source software has become a modern commons, but now it's vulnerable. Freedom isn't sufficient to secure it for the future.

Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, shares the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.

Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it's not a recipe for success—it's survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.

There are good reasons to believe that – left to itself – the market for foundation models trends towards consolidation, says Max von Thun.

How Silicon Valley’s Race for Monopoly Inhibits Product-Market Fit

Dangers of DISTINCT and implicit assumptions in SQL queries

By Ricky Gardiner, Alex Hutter, and Katie Lefevre

Uptime Institute finds networking problems are the root cause of most IT service-related issues, while power is the primary source of data center downtime, and cyberattacks are becoming a significant contributor to outages.

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By getting more innovative with how we use git history, we've turned it into our secret weapon for faster, more insightful reviews.

A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to i…

Thunderbolt has always been a functionally proprietary technology, held secret by Intel until “opening” the standard in a way that evidently wasn’t enough for anyone to meaningful…

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty…

I planned and started to write a series about personal productivity systems, but I’m abandoning the series. Here’s why.

We have a tendency to believe that anything we see in a chart is 100% accurate, although that’s often not true. To understand the accuracy of the chart, we have to understand a couple of things: How accurate the initial data was. How much of the original data set was used in the chart. How good the chart is at communicating the right message.

I think I will be the last person in Bloomington to try getting free over-the-air TV from what’s left of all the major networks. But that’s just my style, so roll with me while I explai…

While the tools are all out there, the journey from concept to a fully operational chatbot is steep, filled with considerations both technical and ethical.

Over the years, I’ve developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of…

When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don’t need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn’t matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked o…

The need to converge the management of NetOps and DevOps workflows has never been more critical.

After a few years of Amazon promoting a grocery shopping experience without checkout lines and frustrating self-checkout experiences, it is now ditching its Just Walk Out technology. Conceptualized…

The overhead of performing even simple tasks online is getting larger and larger. I question the security of almost all these supposedly

Seventy-eight percent of people surveyed in a new report by Puppet by Perforce said their organization has had a dedicated platform team for at least three years.