I didn't see that John C. Dvorak passed away last month until a couple of days ago. It was sad to see. I grew up with ZDTV and then TechTV throughout high school and early college. Dvorak, along with Leo Laporte, Sumi Das, Jim Louderback, Patrick Norton, and

I was thinking about Digg's misfires recently and got to pondering alternatives that might actually catch on. Digg has something strong going for it: a rabid, small fanbase and a dedicated founder. But it's been drifting the same tired direction as everyone else: easy (read: lazy)

The Odin Project is one of the better things on the open internet: a free, rigorous, openly maintained curriculum that takes someone from zero to employable developer. The part I appreciate most is the branch. Partway through, you pick Ruby or JavaScript and the curriculum reshapes itself around your choice.

I've been running a data function for ten years now. A couple of quick notes on how titles have changed, as a way of illustrating how far the field has come. 1. The lexicon didn't exist yet. When I first laid out the structure of the

I held off on this longer than I probably should have. The case for an AI-facing interface has been obvious for a while. The case against it (hallucination risk, data security, governance exposure) was obvious too. What moved me was straightforward: I've spent years building tools for

LinkedIn is textbook ens—ification. Is anyone going to make a serious argument that the deck is stacked against the normies of LinkedIn? Worse yet, imagine being a person at an organization that is a recipient of daily sales pitches. There's a baseline desperation that most people sense

Thanks to some heavy recommendations from Macbreak Weekly, I ordered David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years. I’m about a third of the way through and it’s a denser read than I was expecting. I’ve seen some speculation online that it might be too technical, but