Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)

Let’s walk through the process of building a dead simple Phoenix application from the ground up.

Days after Uber began selling stock, the National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer gave the company a huge gift. In an advice memo, the general counsel’s office determined that Uber’s drivers are independent contractors, not employees. If drivers are legally…

I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24 hour timespan in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account.

Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem

The Apple event tomorrow morning (US Pacific time), takes place at Town Hall, Building 4, Apple, Inc. in Cupertino. It has been almost 15 years since I visited there the last time. 'Hint: It&...

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Firefox 67 is now available in general release, bringing a faster and better JavaScript debugger, support for CSS prefers-color-scheme queries, and the initial debut of WebRender in stable Firefox. Dan ...

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital

Update: You can find a newer version of this article on Python Morsels. In every Intro to Python class I teach, there’s always at least one & …

For years I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around how silicon chips actually work. How does a purposefully contaminated shard of glass wield control over electrons? Every once in a while, som…

Getting started programming using a new language or technology can be daunting and difficult, but if you have a good tutorial to take you though the learning curve step-by-step, you're more likely to learn and get up to speed quicker. Assembly is the lowest…

Pythia is a new open source deep learning framework that enables researchers to quickly build, reproduce, and benchmark AI models.

For months, Australia warned the U.S. about the destructive potential of 5G technology. Now, America is aggressively campaigning against Chinese telecom giant Huawei.

A Turkish translation of this article is available as Breen, John. “Japonya’nın Emperyalist Geleceği: Bir Imparatorun Ikilemi.” Turque Diplomatique 24 (June 2019), pp. 25-28.
 
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