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Better than Free (2008)
[I’ve revised and condensed this short essay into an updated version, which you can read on my Substack here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we … Continue reading →
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It's Never Too Early to Fire
I have never fired anyone too early. How many founders have been in the position of hiring a senior executive — having gone through all the interviews, reference checks, board approvals, and negotiations — only to have doubts creep in all too soon after they start? Your hire doesn’t seem to be delivering on the...
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Chrome Won
Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup. Mozilla published a blog post two days ago h…
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Twilio Functions – Public Beta
Write and run Twilio code without dealing with servers. 10k free invocations every month—$0.0001/invocation after. Now available to everyone in public
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Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
The past week or so a lot of discussion and introspection has been happening in the Clojure community. Eric Normand responded to my one year Lambda Island post with some...
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Bringing back the Somali shilling
Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored the...
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Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
Great news! Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and completely free. Download the mobile documentation browser again.
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Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
Did you hear the one about the tulip bubble? It’s almost certainly a myth. It is myths, though, that explain why cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug
I hate writing blog posts like this. In Arq 5.7.9 we changed the way Arq caches the list of objects at the destination for AWS, Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage. For those 3 destination types, all non-packed objects were stored in one “objects” directory. If you had years of backups and/or terabytes of data, […]
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SaaS Pricing (2013)
SaaS pricing is a mystery to many developers. Here is how to do it better.
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People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2016)
Understanding the features vs benefits phenomenon is one of the hardest things to do in product marketing. Here're some examples for features vs benefits products
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Engineering management lessons (2014)
Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. Here is a short guide to get you started.
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Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram
Introducing new video messages and Telesco.pe, a video hosting for public channels.
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]
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Working at Netflix 2017
Working at Netflix, 2017: a personal update from a performance engineer about working at the company.