It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer. Johannes was one of the most prolific and respected contributors … Read more
I run a lot of stuff locally. Jekyll blogs, Flask APIs, Next.js apps, AI tools, little scripts that do one thing well. Each one lives on some port. Each session, I’d open a new browser tab and think: was that … Read more
The following is the text of an email sent today to all IBM employees by Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna: IBMers, I am saddened to share that Lou Gerstner, IBM’s Chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2002, passed away yesterday. … Read more
iOS 26 was released last month, but the software train never stops, and iOS 26.1 beta testing is already underway. So far, iOS 26.1 makes both Apple Intelligence and Live Translation on compatible AirPods available in additional languages, and it … Read more
On October 23, 1911, some 400 guests sat down to one of the most pivotal meals of the 20th century. The setting was the Louis XVI room in Chicago’s Hotel Sherman, a “luxurious meeting place for the elite” that catered … Read more
A memory and a dream. How it was I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent’s medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS. The network started off … Read more
Opinion Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. Way back in 1993, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature review on … Read more
Mario Romero worked at one of the busiest, most high-profile research laboratories in the world for 30 years. But, if you ask him, it never felt much like a job. “Let me tell you, I never felt I was going … Read more
It was definitely a “you’re on my turf” kind of response. And I wasn’t sure what to expect from Doug. But a few days later we had a long call with Doug and some of the senior members of what … Read more
The cover of Prudence Peiffer’s new book, The Slip, features the kind of photograph New York City dreams are made of. In the 1958 shot, taken by Hans Namuth, a bohemian-looking group – many of whom would later become giants … Read more