Forget mission statements and forget the list of values posted in the boardroom. If you really want to understand a team’s culture, start by looking at a leader’s calendar. In an era when artificial intelligence is automating more of our work than ever, a leader’s...

A year or two ago, if your AI feature wasn't performing well, the answer was usually simple. Try a better model. Teams moved from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, experimented with Claude, or waited for the next release, and many of their problems disappeared. That isn't the reality...

Why it ran hot Part one ended with the phone working, and for a while that was the end of it. postmarketOS on a mainline kernel, Docker on top, a Tailscale address, one small service that needed nothing from me. It went on a shelf behind a monitor, and I stopped...

Take a look around any organisation today. There's probably a chatbot answering the same customer question "What's your return policy?" A hundred times a month. At the same time, somewhere else in the business, employees are still manually copying information between...

Every Data Team Eventually Ends Up with a Collection of Python Scripts Almost every enterprise data platform follows a similar evolution. At the beginning of a project, data ingestion requirements are usually straightforward. Business systems need to synchronize MySQL...

Your ingest workers are queuing. pg_stat_activity shows lock waits. The blocked query is not a slow SELECT. It's your bulk INSERT, waiting on the devices table. You added a FOREIGN KEY there months ago. You added a UNIQUE constraint on the readings table to catch...

In 2024, the S&P 500 returned 25%. The average equity investor made 16.5%. Same market. Same year. An eight-point gap between the index and the people trying to beat it. That gap wasn’t bad luck. DALBAR tracks this every year, and the cause is almost always the...

The whole thing started with one plain, annoying question: how do we get real metrics out of nginx? Nginx sits in front of basically everything we run, terminating connections, proxying requests, doing its job quietly the way nginx always does. And we had almost no...

Football’s most controversial technology may be the best preview of how AI will make decisions everywhere else. Imagine it’s the 93rd minute.The striker breaks through the defense. One touch. One shot. The ball hits the back of the net. The stadium erupts. Players...

For over a decade, Plex was the main gateway into home media servers for tech enthusiasts, DIYers, and homelabbers alike. If you're unfamiliar with it, think of Plex as your own private, self-hosted Netflix or Spotify. You don't need an expensive server rack or a...

OverviewGemma-4-26B-A4B-StyleTune-V2 is a 26 billion parameter language model maintained by Gryphe that applies targeted stylistic modification to Google's Gemma 4 26B mixture-of-experts base model. The model trains only a single tensor—the lm_head output projection...

Why I chose Tauri, and what it cost meIn January I had to choose how to build Tabularis. Electron was the obvious option. Three native applications were the romantic option. Tauri looked like the compromise.Six months and 64 releases later, I still think it was the...

There was a time when owning a BlackBerry phone meant you were ahead of the curve. At its peak, the company controlled more than 40% of the U.S. smartphone market and had tens of millions of loyal users around the world. Its Bold, Curve and Pearl models literally took...