A plasticky sounding vibration on my wrist gets my attention, followed in canon by alerts on my phone and the open tab on my browser. It has only been 75 days since I accepted the temporary mission of keeping this ship on course. The ship is the English department of my university. I am not alone on...

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FILE - Audience members gather at Made By Google for new product announcements at Google on Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada, File) U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominan...

At Oodle, we use Golang for our backend services. In an earlier blog post (Go faster!), we discussed optimization techniques for performance and scale, with a specific focus on reducing memory allocations. In this post, we'll explore the profiling tools we use. Golang provides a rich set of profilin...

My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. She had just arrived in London on a coach from Oxford and was run over by a bus outside Victoria Station...

Once you get a bunch of data that you want to put on your site, it's common to reach for a database. Then you'll write an app that consumes that database and renders a dynamic site. What if, instead, you could create a static site from that data. What would that buy you? But what if you could use...

I've been building websites for over twenty years now. I started freelancing in the very early 2000s as a teenager, building websites using XHTML, CSS and PHP. That's a long time. (Not that it's a contest; know many people who predate my experience and many who are far more accomplished given less t...

How close are we to realizing the vision of The Matrix (1999), where AI crafts a fully immersive, interactive world, blurring the line between reality and illusion? Imagine a limitless digital universe, created in real-time with visuals that rival reality itself. This project i...

When Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company (again) earlier this month, it did so b...

I’ve always been the kind of person who can get a lot of things done in a single day. But for the past 6 months or so, I’ve been operating under a near-constant state of hyper-productivity, largely enabled by my prolific usage of AI tools that allow me to shave hours or minutes off of every sing...