2016’s top programming trends

 Last January I wrote a TechCrunch post predicting the major programming trends of 2016. But in…

Dear Air Canada: a systems analysis of a comically colossal cascading failure

 I’ll be blunt; I’m here to vent my fury. On your behalf, dear reader! Honest. When…

The cleantech conspiracy

 This, if you squint and adjust your tinfoil hat in just the right way, is the…

Tech can reshape the U.S. Peace Corps and bridge political divides

 Earlier this week, President-elect Trump met with some of the top leaders of American tech companies.…

Adding encryption to cameras won’t solve photojournalists’ problems

 When the Freedom of the Press Foundation published an open letter to Canon, encouraging the company…

Death to JIRA

 I have long held that Atlassian’s ubiquitous JIRA bug-tracker / feature-planner serves a valuable purpose in…