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Let me state my bias up front so you can apply the appropriate discount to everything below: I don’t like Apple. Not in a casual “ew, wood desks” way. In a “my antivirus has …

This week a meme did more accurate technical writing than most vendor blogs, so I want to talk about it. Mark Zuckerberg posted an internal announcement at Meta announcing a company-wide AI hackathon. …

Microsoft held its developer conference this week in a converted fish cannery in San Francisco with roughly 2,500 humans in attendance. Let me repeat that number. Two thousand five hundred. For …

I fell for it. The siren song of productivity content. “Build a second brain.” “Create your personal knowledge management system.” “Organize your digital life.” I …

I did something stupid. I decided, in full earnestness, that I was going to go fully open source. No proprietary software. No closed-source drivers. A completely libre, ethically sourced, …

Dear Terminal, I know I don’t say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for not judging me when I fat-fingered rm -rf ./ instead of rm -rf ./build/. You watched me delete my entire project and you …

Every time someone says “just put it in the cloud” I involuntarily twitch. I dont trust the cloud. The cloud is just someone else’s computer, and Ive seen what people do with their …

I went to a tech conference last month. It was held in a convention center so large that I’m pretty sure it has its own weather system. I saw a man in a Kubernetes t-shirt argue with a man in a …