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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.
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We Looked for Work as a Software Development Team
Part of this story is a common one. Established company in an industry undergoing major disruption hires developers to innovate back to viability. Management lacks clear vision of what that means and so chops and changes ( not pivots, that’s something else) technology strategy several times. After two years of hard…
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Nginx, Inc. announces its Series A funding
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the global one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize and runs associated events and initiatives.
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Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 21, 2026 – The Computer History Museum (CHM), a leader in decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity—announced the launch of OpenCHM, a new digital portal providing global access to its unparalleled collection. “OpenCHM is designed to inspire…
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Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member
Unity Technologies has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member!
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The Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.
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Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.
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AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
The AI boom is more likely a marker of the end of the 50-year digital boom than the start of a new wave of innovation.
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Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation
The state of California has some of the most expensive housing in the country. In new research, Kristoffer (Kip) Jackson investigates why homes in the Golden State have come to cost so much. He finds that it's down to how land use is regulated; each new land-use regulation reduces a Californian city's housing supply by
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What does my engineering manager do all day?
I officially transitioned from a lead frontend engineer to a senior engineering manager this year and wanted to provide some insight into…
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Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Press release 10/2023 3 April 2023 Finland will become a Member of NATO on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. President of the...
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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our departure date for the final leg of our cloud…
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The field of longevity biotech is a mess
Right before the Thanksgiving break, while simultaneously attending the SfRBM annual conference (an event featuring lots of hard core wet-bench science grounded in reality), I had the dubious honor of also attending the Longevity Summit . The latter is a new online event featuring talks from leaders in the burgeoning…
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Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Launching the most powerful version of Vivaldi yet. Today’s update includes Sync and over 1,500 other improvements since the first version of Vivaldi.
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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eBay customers’ personal data was compromised in March
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.
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Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
DRUPAL Bootstrap Upgrade: MIKE IT
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When someone says they hate your product
How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study
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Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
We are happy to announce that the European Commission has awarded €2 million to Proton AG, the parent company of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, to develop a suite of encrypted services.
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Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
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Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
I recently went down a very deep rabbit hole to understand why, some months, Cloudflare was charging us 3x what we were expecting for their Cloudflare Images service. I’m posting this write-up because back then, a quick search didn’t turn anything up; and Cloudflare support has totally ghosted us for more than 8…
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Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic and new driving nuances associated with operating in one of…