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Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation
Earlier this year in July, Servo received a NLnet grant to enhance several aspects of Servo.
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11 years of hosting a SaaS
Lots of mistakes, some uptime too.
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports
I read 1,000 investor reports last year.
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Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
And how can you figure it out what they really need
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter.
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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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No Source Code == No Patent
How we know you "have' the invention
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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximise employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
Just 2 years after laying off 80% of their team and being left for dead, we estimate Docker is now at $135M+ ARR growing roughly 150% YoY—and rebuilding Docker 2.0 as a bottom-up, developer-first company. For more on Docker’s future, check out our interview with Docker CEO Scott Johnston along with our Docker profile…
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
The title says it: if you’re involved in drug or medical development and have experienced the FDA’s torpor, or vengeance, consider getting in touch; anonymously is fine. I want to make …
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is researcher attitude (e.g., they are unwilling to venture into the…
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Does Google need a new CEO?
Whether it is botched and haphazard layoffs, anti-trust regulators baying for its blood, or opportunistic saber-rattling by long-time rival Microsoft and its outsourced AI unit, OpenAI — 2023 has b…
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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
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Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
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The Failed Commodification of Technical Work
The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with…
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One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here
Update (July 17, 2026): It’s three years since I wrote this article. It went viral and has been reshared and discussed. And curiously, AI…
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What Reddit Got Wrong
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
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Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians
Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.
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The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
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I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to
Exposing the dark side of GitHub and open source projects
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Why construction projects always go over budget
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the 1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly unbearable from the tangled str
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We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it
An AI Public Service Announcement
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Incompetent but Nice
A question I’ve never been able to answer to my satisfaction: how do you manage people who are nice but can’t do the work?
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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September
Google's monopoly is going on trial starting September 12. This is the big one. Or rather, it's the start of a series of big ones.
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Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers
How Companies Use Drip Pricing to Overcharge Consumers
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Welcome to Datasette Cloud
Datasette Cloud is the new SaaS hosting platform for the Datasette open source project. It enables teams to create a private collaboration space, upload and share data securely with each other, and then selectively publish that data to the world.
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Tech's Elite Hates Labor
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.