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A useful productivity measure?
In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?”
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The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
The future of Coursera's only credible alternative for universities rests in the hands of 2U's creditors.
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Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?
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Google banned me from Google Voice
After 15 years, Google banned me from Google Voice . This post is a summary of what happened, with the hope that it might help someone in the future who runs into the same situation. At the end , I have some thoughts about the latent danger of being banned from Google at any time with no notice.
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
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Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign…
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Win for copyright user rights in Canada: Digital locks do not trump fair dealing
The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing…
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How I think about debt
Japan has 140 businesses that are at least 500 years old.
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An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about her path to AMD, turning around the chip maker, the AI opportunity, and competing with Nvidia.
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Marketing to Engineers (2001)
I am a chemical engineer and have been writing copy designed to sell products and services to engineers for 10 years. Here’s what I know about appealing to this special audience:
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
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It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
Discover the challenges of migrating from Google Domains and Container Registry. Explore Google Cloud's strengths and pitfalls, plus read why strategy is key.
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
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The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
I wrote a decade ago about the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, a strategy for corporations to evade taxes that was widespread and large-scale enough to come to the attention of the International Monetary Fund. But due to various changes in national and international tax agreements, the strategy seems to have faded…
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First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
World first: Clinicians have implanted an electrical nerve stimulation device into a Crohn’s disease patient to stop post-surgery inflammation recurring.
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes
I’ll get to the good and bad news of the week, but first I want to note the big story - Donald Trump’s conviction by a jury in New York - and a little story with big implications - the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a corporate landlord in cahoots with a nation-wide rent-fixing cartel that affects up to 16…
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Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit skywhopper…
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NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
NHS England has confirmed that it will investigate whether Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform, after the tech giant covertly launched an influencer campaign which targeted Good Law Project.
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Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
For over a century, lawmakers have exempted politically favored organizations and industries from the tax code. As a result, the tax-exempt nonprofit economy now comprises 15 percent of GDP, roughly equal to the fifth-largest economy in the world.
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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
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We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Frugly vs. Freemium
uglify the UI for non-paying consumers
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What happened to the US machine tool industry?
Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization.
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The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
Dorothy Bishop has the story about “a chemistry lab in CNRS-Université Sorbonne Paris Nord”:
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Firefox search update
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a
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Financial systems take a holiday
Ever wondered about what happens when banks are closed or why some apps have operating hours? It's fascinating.