technology trends
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
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Let's Talk About The American Dream
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to?stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask us to confront
technology trends
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
space
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much
programming languages
I Fight For The Users
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment to celebrate that Elon Musk
self-driving cars
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use
programming languages
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line.
hardware
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the
battery technology
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is?a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs?must?be decreasing, because it’s not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an?electric
cars
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I’ve never thought of myself as a “car person.” The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the?first?new car I ever bought) was the?quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then, we bought a VW station wagon in 2011 and
web development
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote about?App-pocalypse Now?in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot…?fatter.
cloud computing
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer
When we started?Discourse?in 2013, our server requirements were high: * 1GB RAM * modern, fast dual core CPU * speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I’m not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were OK with