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Frontend — Progress on the Block Protocol

Progress on the Block Protocol

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more “Progress on the Block Protocol”

JSJoel SpolskyJoel Spolsky·December 19, 2022Frontend
Engineering — Release Radar

Release Radar

We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·December 16, 2022Engineering
Distributed — What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT. - High Scalability -

What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT. - High Scalability -

DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated to offend no one yet still sounds comprehensiv

HSHigh Scalability·December 16, 2022Distributed