A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Open-Source Risks and Streamlining Your Development Process with SBOMs — What is an SBOM? A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is an inventory of all components and libraries that make up a piece of software. This typically includes extensive third-party code, but may also consist of libraries and code written internally by your organization, particularly if it is a large organization.

The web is about to become wilder than you ever thought it could. — Web 1.0 was… well the web. You could read and research (if you could find what you were looking for) and that was it. Web 2.0 introduced user-generated content, networked websites, web apps, and robust interaction. It spanned everything from Flash websites to Instagram. If you are generous with your…

The economy has been rough. Crypto companies collapsed. Scandals abound. Recently we have seen some rebound, but not the adoption anyone in the industry was hoping for. And yet, blockchain tech is still, as they say, “early.” I spent 18 months leading engineering at a blockchain startup and have three…

Artificial Intelligence is ready for your day-to-day use. Introduction GhatGPT, Notion’s AI features, image generation from Dalle2, StabledDiffusion, and other services are capable of giving you the information you need, generating relevant content, starting your research, and more. There is only one barrier between you and getting successful output from these…

The Ethics of Digital Humans in the Workplace and Online — Michael Keaton’s character in Robocop (2014) is Raymond Sellars. He was supposed to be a villain. Still, watching this movie nearly a decade later, he feels more like a hero by contemporary yardsticks. He’s a successful billionaire leading a massive tech company, doing whatever it takes to increase the stock…

You’ve heard of refactoring code, but do you know how to upcycle services? — What do a social network, a dog grooming service, and a hotel booking app have in common? A lot. For each of the above, a user needs to create an account, there are security considerations, data processing pipelines, and probably even forms of payments. When you find yourself in a…

How to decide whether you should self-host, go with a SaaS option, or bundle your choice of CI tool through a vendor — Your monthly bill comes in for CircleCI. How can it be this expensive? Thousands of dollars a month just to have it available, which doesn't include the cost of your engineers’ time working with it. You have a DevOps team. What are they doing again? …

Lensa, Bing, ChatGPT, and other tools have made everything beautiful and easy, but also… evil? — The team and I were working on an AI model to filter out the bottom percentage of candidates that applied for jobs. We didn’t want to filter everyone out, just the applications that would clearly not make it, or were missing that special something. Of course, it's tough to know…

Avoid these common mistakes when asking your boss for a promotion. — Getting promoted feels like you have been rewarded for all the hard work and heroic feats you have accomplished. You excel in your job and want even more, and the next step feels like it's just a conversation away. Daily, on LinkedIn and Twitter, I see posts about how to…