Month: November 2022

  • big+fast reduces to anti-human

    Choosing between big+fast and small+slow is just a facade on choosing between the few and the many; everything that is human scale is small+slow.

  • Feckless Engineering

    Chaos engineering is when you intentionally introduce random failures to build the resilience of a large system. Feckless engineering is when you intentionally introduce random failures because you don’t care about the stability of a large system.

  • What could have been

    Coalescing thoughts about what I’m calling “the Web decorporation” – the return of smallish communities connected by Web technologies not for financial gain, not to advance the interests of a corporation, and not to help you climb a ladder but just because you want to have friends, hear from folks who aren’t your friends but…