Favorite New Office 2016 Feature: Tell Me
“Tell Me” is Microsoft’s infamous Clippy finally done right, and somehow I hadn’t paid attention until very recently. It gives unobtrusive help when you need it, focused on task completion… Read more »
Integrating Judo and BJJ for Effective, Holistic Grappling
When I was learning judo as a kid while growing up in France in the early 80s, ground work (aka newaza) was a significant component of the art, especially as… Read more »
AI Reading of Human Emotions is a Tough Problem
It’s tough enough to properly read nonverbal cues among us humans, now imagine programming software to do it. That’s what Lex Fridman and his MIT colleagues are trying to accomplish…. Read more »
Website Hosting Tech: Shared, Dedicated, Cloud – What to Choose and Why?
If your head is spinning from the deluge of tech product announcements that make you feel like you’re always trying to catch up, no matter how close you stick to technology… Read more »
Web Services and APIs Need to Advertise Their Health Status
It seems everything is now being turned into an off-the-cloud service, and as a case in point StatusPage.io launched in 2013 to let companies outsource their availability dashboards. They already have lined up a… Read more »
Smartphones: Time to Go Direct
The likes of Dell and Gateway exploded on the PC scene in the late 80s/early 90s by streamlining their supply chain, thinking of themselves as OEM assemblers rather than manufacturers,… Read more »
Turbo-Made in China
I first posted here in 2007 about Andrew Shane Huang’s great coverage of manufacturing and technology in China, especially the street availability of electronics components. I hadn’t kept close tabs… Read more »
Out-of-Left-Field Idea of the Day: Google Broadband
Over the past decade, the headline of this entry, first published in October 2004, seemed less and less outlandish. By March 2014, Larry Page had made that a very explicit… Read more »
Why You Want to Develop in Production-Like Conditions, and How to Do it with Vagrant or Docker
Note: entry originally published in March 2014, with numerous edits and additions since then. As of September 2016 I’ve moved to Docker for my local dev needs. Like many people… Read more »
Apps and Shortcuts to Power Search All Document Types [Windows 10]
After a lot of trial and error, here’s the combination of Windows programs that I use to search very quickly through mountains of documents. Overall, I pick the tool most… Read more »