A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them · GitHub
The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
I’m a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast. One thing I couldn’t have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve’s experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming up time and time
Google Cloud release notes | Google Cloud Documentation
The following release notes cover the most recent changes over the last 60 days. For a comprehensive list of product-specific release notes, see the individual product release note pages.
A guide to platform engineering | Google Cloud Blog
At PlatformCon 2025, we talked about “shift down” — one of the guiding principles behind Google’s approach to platform engineering.
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes | Google Cloud Documentation
You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the Google Cloud page, browse and filter all release notes in the Google Cloud console, or programmatically access release notes in BigQuery.
Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus
When a company makes a promise, the public should be able to rely on it. Today, nearly every person in the U.S. is a customer of either Amazon or Google—and many of us are customers of both
Seed Hypermedia
Publish documents, connect ideas, discuss them in context, and preserve verifiable authorship and collective memory over time.
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…
@bnewbold.net contributed design feedback on the file sharing lexicon — referencing git-annex special remotes and WebTorrent as prior art, and suggesting thumbnail blobs, additional hash types for cross-database compatibility, and appview-side proxying for bandwidth distribution.
FISL — Finding Internet Structures & Links
fisl.devAye > Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people (..). > Instead of arguing for what kinds of data we ought to be able to download from the corporate silos, the platforms should be asking us what kinds of data they may copy from *our* servers.
Erlend Sogge Heggen
The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
knowledge management
Intellectual Property - Quick Docs
Post-Archive-Everything
For me personally there is a journey here - I was a firm believer in archive everything. This peaked in a period where I was very interested in IPFS, CIDs, CAS, etc. Now, the next step. Post-Archive(-Everything). Through a series of conversations I came to the conclusion that forgetting is probably more powerful than remembering. The links in this collections play a similar note, or are related to my understanding of this.
Ditch Platforms
Guides, stories, and reasons to leave platforms in favor of protocols
Reams
Portent
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Memex AI Journal App — Open Source, Local-First, iOS & Android
How I Write Blog Posts with Obsidian — Unattributed
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?
FOSDEM 2026 - Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future
Willow - Home
I Deleted My Second Brain
The Music Industry is Broken
Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
How to ACTUALLY Quit Spotify.
Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
EFF is Leaving X
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
Stripe Atlas | Incorporate your startup in Delaware: C corp or LLC
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