In 2001 I was at a company I’d started called State Software… we produced some brilliant demonstrations and were beginning to make some progress in… Read More »Douglas Crockford on making a standard (JSON) (1)
It makes sense that one of the jobs most amenable to automation by AI must be computer programming itself. For all their complicated (as opposed… Read More »OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
Download and install Irfanview (“One of the most popular viewers worldwide.”) Go to the folder that contains the photos you want to resize. Open one… Read More »Resource: how to bulk resize images with Irfanview (resize multiple files)
I was struck by Charles Severance saying that computers are really just little machines that are waiting for us to tell them what we want… Read More »“What do you want me to do?”
Charles Severance‘s Python for Everybody is “the most popular programming course in the world, since 2014.” The course is completely free – and re-useable and… Read More »Charles Severance: Why Program?
Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi This is a recording of an hour long chat on Clubhouse about the reality of managing a… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Boss Talk and The Long Now
Here’s a great highlight from a fascinating and very entertaining podcast from a16z: Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture… or Civilization. Recommended. Sonal Chokshi: “We… Read More »Virginia Postrel on textiles and technology, nature and magic
We’re beginning to penetrate architecture and engineering and the auto design world and aerospace and other markets where they need extremely high fidelity tools. So… Read More »New tools for your industry
A decade or two ago all games were 2D because you couldn’t power a 3D game. You couldn’t do online gaming: you couldn’t connect to… Read More »John Riccitiello on technological changes in video games and the power of platforms
Googledrive/Backup and Sync has been eating a lot of resources on startup and slowing everything down… This fantastic howto from maketecheasier is the quickest crib-sheet… Read More »Resource: How to delay Googledrive / Backup and Sync on Windows startup