Despite sounding like a really bad Marvel rip-off, ActivityPub and the Fediverse might in fact be the next big platform shift for the internet.
State of the AI Nation 1: Google I/O 2023 Recap
On 4th May 2023, a leaked memo from a Google employee declared that the company “has no moats” when it comes to AI (artificial intelligence). A moat, in business strategy circles at least, means a competitive advantage that you can use to protect your business model. It means different things Continue Reading
Why Google Will Win the AI Wars
In 2003, Michael Burry predicted that the US housing market would collapse in 2007. As we all now know, he was right…
Deconstructing the New Inner Loop for Single Page Applications (SPAs) in .NET 6
Microsoft’s two major development platforms, .NET Framework and .NET Core, have converged in .NET 6, with major changes to .NET SPA web application development. You can hit F5 and be confident that everything just works, however, I couldn’t help spending some time digging into what’s going on under the hood… Continue Reading
Software Companies are the Wild West
Between the 1600s and the late 1800s, thousands of people set off from the edge of the new American civilisation and headed West…
Orienting Teams around the Axis of Change
Tech is a very fluid and changing world, but one of the most lasting truths in technology is Conway’s Law.
A Shortcut to Continuous Delivery
“Continuous Delivery” is a concept in software development where updates to IT products are promoted to production on a rapid cadence. Each organisation and industry is different, but delivering changes at least once a day is a commonly accepted definition. While there are obvious risks to releasing code at such Continue Reading
Can you make a Raspberry Pi Security Camera?
This weekend’s geeky challenge: Making a Raspberry Pi Security Camera. TL;DR – Here’s a basic, practically-ready-to-deploy, open-source Raspberry Pi security camera. Brief Mostly because I’m cheap (but partly to reduce the scope and therefore increase chance of success) I added a few constraints: Periodic still image capture is OK (streaming Continue Reading