Mr TIFF – from Inventing The Future
Inventing The Future
Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software t...
 <- tracing Stephen Carlsen, the man who invented the TIFF picture file while at Aldus, just before he died
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages: The Leadership Blindspot: How Identity Drives Multi-Million Dollar Technical Debt
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Why Engineers Can
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
 <- this is THE dominant factor explaining 21st century computing
Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
./techtipsy
Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.
 « I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set… but no matter how hard I try… it feels slow. […] It’s the Javascript. »
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
Jana&#x27;s cozy corner
Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more
 2025-11-01 - Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more <- a sequel of sorts to the earlier post
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review)
MIT Technology Review
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a m...
 The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely & you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
 <- there are arguably signs that the writer used an LLM to tweak this, but the core point stands, nonetheless.
Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection
Xubuntu website downloads section gets malware
: Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users
 Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users <- by me on @npub1p4kx...wfhv
The latest from @npub1pk4u...yeh8 is splendid. (As ever.) image