Everything cryptocurrency purports to solve has been “technically” solved, but it’ll become indispensable because of the elusive idea of post scarcity.

The perceived ownership of this message and the surrounding content (my blog) can be trivially duplicated a million times over at little to no cost by anyone.

I don’t care about that, but I guarantee you that a lot of other people do. Cryptocurrency brings scarcity to a post scarcity (digital) world. This is something that people desperately want.

Herd of African elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya (© Susan Portnoy/Shutterstock)

The term zero trust is a security model, also known as “perimeterless security” that has been known for a long time and that was e.g. implemented internally at Google in 2009 in a project called BeyondCorp. In recent years, mainly due to the high …

Safari Technology Preview Release 151 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.

I now think (lost a bet) that there’s a pathology that drives genres (tags) in content propagation. If you observe people “consuming” content then you’ll inevitably realize that there’s an overwhelming consensus for just more of the same, but not forever.

Diversity and homogeneity

Organizing content “strictly” into genres is a compromise. Auto–generating tags looks like a trap though. Is this even a muse?

Mount Tsubakuro near Azumino, Nagano, Japan (© Joshua Hawley/Getty Images)

For more than a decade I have been thundering against a lot of the bad practices that have permeated the software development industry, one such practice is to blindly trust code when using third party libraries, frameworks or packages. For about the …

Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park, California (© Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures)

Static vs dynamic is a marketing trick. If truth be told a lot of tech marketing is highly suspicious…

“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.”

I don’t know who said that, but that quote sums it all up.

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) in Santa Cruz, Argentina (© Adwo/Alamy)