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The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
Cloudflare’s Zero Egress Fee Object Storage, R2, Is Now GA
R2 is now generally available!! R2 gives developers object storage minus the egress fees
Compaq and Coronavirus
Compaq’s descent from a company of action to a brand is a frightening parable for the the West’s focus on talk over action.
Agentic AI Foundation
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agentic AI safe, accessible, and beneficial for everyone.
GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging…
Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts
Since the initial launch of Qubes OS back in April 2010, work on Qubes has been funded in several different ways. Originally a pet project, it was first supported by Invisible Things Lab (ITL) out of the money we earned on various R&D and consulting contracts. Later, we decided that...
Lessons for Early Stage Founders
In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were unique to our own special snowflake of a founding journey. I chalked it up to us being new grads and first-time founders.
The Facebook F8 Story No one is writing: Nothing works.
If you develop Facebook applications, or have a website you’d like to integrate with Facebook connect, you have undoubtedly seen at least some of the videos from the F8 Conference this weeken…
Google is joining the Open edX platform
Posted by Dan Clancy, Director of ResearchA year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since the...
The Noob Guide to Online Marketing
“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…
Some lessons learned
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
Why I run my business like an open source project (2013)
When I first started consulting, I used to squirrel away in my corner and code. Some weeks later, I’d deliver my perfect shining gem to the client after, quite frankly, trying to talk to them as little as possible throughout most of the process. It wasn’t that I didn’t like people, I especially enjoyed talking with…
Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA
To: John Isley, Executive Vice President, Higher Education & CEO Pearson Technology Group
Going All in on the Mac App Store
Why I stopped selling Unbound directly via the web site.
My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
Everyone mocks the Microsoft stack until they see the bills. What our .NET and SQL Server setup really costs to run, compared to the cool-kid alternatives.