I’m very sorry, but you’re going to have to learn to love the blockchain

I apologize. I get it. You hear “blockchain” and you immediately think “shady get-rich-quick schemes” or…

What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity?

I looked at the TIOBE index today, as I do every so often, as most of…

Our Precious

I’ve long theorized that one’s moral character is inversely proportional to the number of syllables in…

What is the meaning of LinkedIn?

Thanks to John Biggs for inspiring this piece; I cosign most of what he says here.…

Optimistic

I spent TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt extravaganza asking questions of various notables onstage, and what struck me…

Burning Man: sympathy for the turnkey devil

The most interesting thing about Burning Man, says me, is that it’s a testbed for a…

Hating the wrong tech people for the right reasons

The slings and arrows aimed at tech’s titans these days are almost too numerous to count.…

What the **** is the deal with Tether?

It was a simple concept: a cryptocurrency whose units were always and constantly worth exactly one…

Voatz: a tale of a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea

Let’s get the fish in the barrel out of the way. Voatz are a tech startup…

Hackers on new ‘secure’ phone networks can bill your account for their roaming charges

I have good news! The infamous SS7 networks used by mobile operators to interoperate, e.g. when…