Where are we at with WebAssembly adoption? Eighteen months ago, The New Stack published an article asking what was holding Wasm back; just last month, 51% of respondents to a poll by The New Stack sai
Being the guy who’s always shouting about impending disaster is frustrating, thankless work. If nobody listens to you, and the disaster happens, you’re a useless Cassandra. If nobody listens to you an
I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite cor
On the morning of Saturday 3 June 1843, the Edinburgh police made their way past Calton Hill to the tenements of Haddington Place. Their target was the residence of Thomas Finlay, a former cabinetmake
May 2008 Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surpris
I have been a fangirl of the container ecosystem since 2014, when I started working at this new startup named Docker, but it's time to talk about where we are today, how we got here, and what matters
Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Kurian joined Google to lead the company’s cloud division in 2018; prior to that he was President of Product Dev
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this pa
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as c
It’s almost outrageous to say that I don’t like distributed systems while working in a company that advertises as being cloud-native, headless and what not. And probably every SRE with some buzzword c
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SALT LAKE CITY — It was 1929 and Gus Weller, a recent German immigrant and the owner of the secondhand shop Salt Lake Bedding, Furniture and Radio on 100 South, found himself in possession of a large
In the basement of the University of Colorado Boulder’s main library, an 85-year-old stone fortress built in the Italian rural style, the archives of the school’s Rare and Distinctive Collections occu
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns social media is fueling a mental health crisis. POLITICO illustration; Photos by iStock By Marc Novicoff 03/24/2024 12:00 PM EDT Marc Novicoff is an associ
March 2024 (This is a talk I gave to 14 and 15 year olds about what to do now if they might want to start a startup later. Lots of schools think they should tell students something about startups. Thi
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