Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today’s "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical prac...

I was headed to London the other day. It has been a couple of years since I’ve been and I admit I wasn’t up on the latest visa requirements. I arrived at JFK with plenty of time to get through securit...

The European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy ​and water, as concerns grow over their consumption of resources.

The 21-year-old platform matched workers with small digital tasks and once served more than 500,000 workers

I have been working on my APIs.json specification since 2014. The specification hasn’t been a smashing success like OpenAPI, JSON Schema, AsyncAPI, or MCP. T...

The books that deprogrammed me. Forty-eight titles that rewired how I see this country, technology, and my own work.

For most of the last six years, if you opened a JSON Schema 2020-12 document in VS Code, the editor quietly fell back to draft-07 behavior and hoped for the ...

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

98% of the people who ride bikes in Central Park manage to ride past each other without speaking. There are 2% of the people who insist on yelling “on the right” or “on the left”. Which I find fascina...

I have a hierarchy in my head of people, bikes, and cars as I make my way around NYC. When it comes to cars, I don’t like most of them, I tolerate some, and I constantly shake my fist at the rest. I t...

An amazing summer in NYC, doing exactly what I wanted, and finding the balance I so needed.

You might have noticed the shift in my focus over the summer, but I want to be explicit about my departure from Naftiko for anyone who was away doing summer ...

A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998.

This is the vote. Every candidate name is posted below as its own comment so it can be reacted to individually — 👍 for yes, 👎 for no, and a reply if you have an argument. #7 is where the criteria l...

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Join API industry leaders at Nordic APIs Summit 2026, our flagship event, to tackle the many challenges facing API-heavy enterprise software architectures.

The Core Narrative: In 2026, the primary consumer of a UK bank’s API is no longer a human with a mobile app—it is an Autonomous Agent. From automated mortgage refinancing to real-time treasury managem...