#tech (22 links)
- What Even Is An OS Now? — A Final Ward sockpuppet.org
We’re building a phone that isn’t designed to run fixed-function applications. I doubt anyone will ever get up on a stage and show off a AAA mobile game (that nobody plays) on it. It’s not for TikTok and short-form video, though I guess you can ask it for that. You can ask it for whatever: it’ll build apps for you, on the phone, whenever you want.
- Why do we keep lying about growth? alexmhsmith.substack.com
Great mini-essay on business and market growth.
AI is the best thing that ever happened to a company like ours. Not because it changes what we believe, but because it stops us having to compromise. The reason we couldn't stay small, flat and senior at enterprise scale was that making at that scale needs bodies. Now, it doesn’t.
- The Last Technical Interview. Today we will pour one out for the… | by Steve Yegge | Medium steve-yegge.medium.com
Great diagnosis, not great solution.
- A plan for Europe’s tech fightback economist.com
As American and Chinese technology becomes more deeply embedded, there is much talk in Europe’s capitals about the importance of tech sovereignty. But the truth is no European country, including Britain, is big enough to stand on its own feet across the full range of ai-related technologies. The tech supremacy of America and China is in large part a function of their hemispheric scale. European nations will need to learn to act at hemispheric scale themselves if they want to compete.
- The OpenAI Keynote – Stratechery by Ben Thompson stratechery.com
The best UI, though, is no UI at all, or rather, just one UI, by which I mean “Universal Interface”.
- Tech Independence sive.rs
Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software. The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone, and can run on any computer.
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
- UK tech industry not immune to Brexit, trade group warns theguardian.com
- Tech's tunnel vision (Phil Gyford’s website) gyford.com
<blockquote>Trying to imagine a tech conference that would embody an alternative viewpoint — a more “socialist / social democratic” alternative — actually seems like a good way in. I don’t have to imagine a whole new society and economic model, but only try to imagine what kinds of topics might be talked about at a conference along those lines. Some topics I quickly wrote down...</blockquote>
- Tech for the Parent Who Didn't Want to Use Tech theatlantic.com
This is really good.
- Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies instagram-engineering.tumblr.com
- Seth's Blog: Bring me stuff that's dead, please sethgodin.typepad.com
The drive-by technorati are well-informed, curious and always probing. They're also hiding... hiding from the real work of creating work that matters, connections with impact and art that lasts. I love to hear about the next big thing, but I'm far more interested in what you're doing with the old big thing.
- Advanced Beauty advancedbeauty.org
There is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.
- Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware - Security Fix blog.washingtonpost.com
Absolutely insane.