Every team that runs software in production eventually lands on the same three nouns. Metrics, logs, traces. Engineers talk about them like they are pillars of a temple, each one sacred, each…
There is a corner of the storage market where the price per terabyte makes new consumer drives look like a rounding error. Pulled enterprise SSDs show up on eBay and at vendors…
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
The row-versus-column decision is easy to describe and surprisingly easy to get wrong. One layout keeps the fields of each record together. The other keeps values from the same field together. Neither…
Prompt optimization is often sold as a clever compression trick. The more useful way to view it is as maintenance. A prompt is an interface between a person, an application, and a…
I used to install an app for every new task. My PC got crowded with software I barely opened, and I never questioned it. Then a few browser-based tools got good enough…
A fast load time on the laptop you happen to be sitting in front of is not evidence that your content delivery network (CDN) is working for the rest of the planet.…
I kept my VPN on for most of a year because I thought it was doing the work of about five different privacy tools at once. It is not. A VPN (virtual…
I have spent the last month keeping a fresh Linux install on a secondary laptop and trying every data science notebook I could get running on it. Not a click through the…
I had a Kindle Paperwhite doing duty as a Home Assistant (an open-source home automation platform that talks to lights, switches, thermostats, and other smart devices) dashboard for a few months. It…
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