In the recent Odd Lots AMA episode, financial journalist Tracy Alloway said …I coined the term ‘ China’s Great Ball of Money.’ This idea that you just have a bunch of extra money …
I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…
Well, this is new. After ten years building a company around the Cucumber open source project, I suddenly find myself out of a job. I...
Confession: I’ve never felt like a very productive person. During the mobile app explosion, circa ~2009, I remember trying all kinds of different…
Executive Summary of Bi-temporality
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People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
An overlooked part of the Nordic tech-ecosystem
The embarrassing investor meltdown surrounding Silicon Valley Bank should drive us to consider new models.
A critical security vulnerability in Gumroad's API allowed anyone to generate unauthorized license keys for paid products without making a purchase.
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
Some tips on writing a cold email.
Friday was my 9 year anniversary of starting as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Monday I was laid off.
There is something about having your product installed in over twenty billion instances all over the world and even out of the globe. In my case it helps me remain focused on and committed to working on the security aspects of curl. Ideally, we will never have our heartbleed moment. Security is also a generally ……
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea – known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water – changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such…
The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.
I know a bunch of you already have your pitchforks out, so let me start out by establishing some goalposts for my premise. When I’m done, you may still want to skewer me, but at least it’ll be for the right reasons, if you do. Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw...
Hashicorp recently announced they’re changing the license of Terraform to a source-available license, BSL1.1.
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we manage instead of the outcome, from the Empire State Building up.
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
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What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a single answer. That said, for a long time…
the studio has always played to critics instead of children and manipulated with cheap sentiment
