Ruby on Rails is the most popular web framework in the Ruby ecosystem and has a large user base, ranging from freelancers to large established companies. With an active user community and wide-ranging documentation, it can be used to build … Read more
Supabase has been open source from day one. This is one of the best decisions we’ve made. It didn’t feel like a difficult decision at the time, since kiwicopple and I are long time users and advocates of great open … Read more
“Is Rust a great fit for this project?” I get this question quite frequently so I think it’s time to write down my thoughts if it can avoid you some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: no. Coming from someone … Read more
[Note: this is a companion piece to a prior post, Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business]. There’s a poem that starts: “People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one … Read more
Finding and removing duplicate files has long been one of the mainstays of Mac housekeeping. Not only did they waste space on the disk they were stored on, but they wasted it again when backed up. For those without the … Read more
Reading the thought-provoking “Patterns & Abstractions” post reminded me of a long-held opinion I have about programming language design: we have a tendency to keep adding features to a language until it becomes so big that its sheer size makes … Read more
Happy first-Monday-of-the-month. I’m Matt Weinberger, deputy editor of Insider’s tech analysis team, filling in for Diamond Naga Siu. This particular Monday comes with something of a hangover in the tech industry, after a week that saw Meta, Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon … Read more
Alan Kay Alan Kay answered: “Actually quite the opposite, if “document” means an imitation of old static text media (and later including pictures, and audio and video recordings).” Alan Kay Wrote: Actually quite the opposite, if “document” means an imitation … Read more
In 1852 the HMS Birkenhead, carrying troops to fight the Xhosa wars, struck a rock near Danger Point in what is now South Africa. The soldiers assembled quietly at the ship’s stern, while the women and children on board clambered … Read more
