Technology Commentary

An introduction to SWAR using the example of binary Hamming weight calculations

In this week’s Installer: the Apple Car, a Dyson vacuum, Evernote’s back, and more.

As quiet as it’s kept, Fly.io is creeping up on PaaS providers and the Big 3, amassing a large base of developers and forming strategic partnerships.

Observability in decentralized applications poses several unique challenges that need to be resolved and traditional solutions might not be sufficient.

In this post we will cover the pros and cons of single-tenancy architecture, and how single-tenancy versus multi-tenancy is not a binary choice.

A VC-backed startup’s push for growth left little time for actual engineering

Hey there! I'm Nat Bennett, and you're reading Simpler Machines, a weekly letter about making software with other people. Thought I'd try something a little bit different this week for the header image – usually I use Unsplash if I use something at all, so I can get an image that

A popular architectural philosophy in the Rails space is (or was) to embrace the philosophy that "Rails is your not your application". In this post I explore how this was hard to get right in Rails - but in Phoenix it's more than easy.

Gemba (現場) is the Japanese term for "actual place," often used for the shop floor or any place where value-creating work actually occurs.

I’m finally trying to read through some Toyota-related books to get a better understanding of the lean movement. Not too long ago, I read Sheigo Shingo’s Non-Stock Production: The Shing…

NVDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently made very contraversial remarks : "Over the course of the last 10 years, 15 years, almost everybody who sits...

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken

Some of you know that I work in the agency business — how that translates to my technical experience is that I used to work on many highly different

A Seafaring Metaphor for Software Architects

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy…

My Linux journey has not been all sunshine and rainbows, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. A few thoughts.

This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.

Discover how business leaders can use the network to balance innovation and risk.

Innovation can be a revenue driver, yet tension between innovation and risk may negatively impact an organization’s ability to innovate, according to research published by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Securing the boot process matters more than you think.

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

Sarah Perez: Apple Has Lost Its Confidence What’s worse is that Apple doesn’t seem to think that IAP can stand up to the competition: app developers’ websites. I don’t agree with everything in this piece but it does make me think about the objectively funny way that

Bulldozers vs Lightning Bolts

The partnership will give joint customers a CPU platform on which to run computationally intensive AI workloads.