Richard MacManus
The New Stack
New Zealand
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Cloudflare's Wildebeest Not Looking to Upset Mastodon Users
We talk to Cloudflare's CTO about Wildebeest for Mastodon, and its approach to hot button fediverse topics like search and content moderation. → Read More
Cohere vs. OpenAI in the Enterprise: Which Will CIOs Choose?
As generative AI moves into the enterprise, a company founded by ex-Googlers aims to out-perform Microsoft backed OpenAI. → Read More
What to Expect from Vue in 2023 and How it Differs from React
Vue.js creator Evan You explains how Vue 3 is different from Vue 2, and in particular how its use of the Virtual DOM has evolved. → Read More
How Foursquare Transformed Itself with Machine Learning
Foursquare is more than just a location check-in app; it's now primarily a machine learning powered data platform for apps like Uber. → Read More
Google Touts Web-Based Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js
TensorFlow.js, a JavaScript library for machine learning, is rapidly growing in popularity, Google's Jason Mayes told us in an interview. → Read More
Netlify Acquires Gatsby, Its Struggling Jamstack Competitor
Netlify coined the term Jamstack and inspired an ecosystem. Gatsby tried to compete, but today Netlify announced it has acquired the company. → Read More
Anil Dash on Mastodon Joining Fastly’s Open Source Program
Fastly VP Anil Dash talks to us about funding Mastodon, and a new web stack he's floated based on the fediverse + Wasm + Tailscale + SQLite. → Read More
Generative AI: How Companies Are Using and Scaling AI Models
In this new era of generative AI, frameworks like Ray are now just as important as Kubernetes in creating modern applications at scale. → Read More
Crypto Winter Puts Dampener on Web3 Developer Growth
An over 70% devaluation in the crypto market has turned developers off Web3. A new report provides an update on the state of blockchain. → Read More
How Ray, a Distributed AI Framework, Helps Power ChatGPT
Anyscale co-founder Ion Stoica explains the open source platform Ray, and how it scales Machine Learning in this new era of generative AI. → Read More
2023 Web Tech Check-in: React Performance, PWAs, iOS Browsers
We check in on three key issues for the web: 1) JavaScript performance woes caused by React, 2) Progressive Web Apps, and 3) Apple browser ban. → Read More
Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon
Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale. → Read More
A Leg-endary Year: Top 5 Internet Technology Stories of 2022
The biggest technology news stories of the year — everything from Elon putting the boot in, shoeless crypto kings, and legless avatars. → Read More
What It's Like to Run a Mastodon Server in the Musk Twitter Era
A Mastodon instance called Toot Wales has recently experienced a big increase in usage. We talk to its operator, Jaz-Michael King. → Read More
Top 5 Internet Technologies of 2022
Generative AI and federated social media were two tipping points on the internet in 2022. Check out our other picks in this year-end review. → Read More
A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse
Evan Prodromou talks about ActivityPub's creation, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for developers in the fediverse. → Read More
Lighting a Bonfire Under Social Media: Devs and ActivityPub
Developers are flocking to the fediverse — and not just Mastodon. Apps like Bonfire, Hometown & OLKi are forcing a re-think of social media. → Read More
Microsoft Aims to Bring DevOps Discipline to Web3
When Microsoft's Donovan Brown explored Web3, he found a lot of Dev, but not much Ops. Microsoft has partnered with ConsenSys to remedy that. → Read More
Devs Are Excited by ActivityPub, Open Protocol for Mastodon
Developer interest in ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon, has been sparked as Twitter turmoil continues. Is this a tipping point? → Read More
Software Developer Tool for Quantum Computers Launching Soon
Horizon Quantum Computing is building an IDE that will help developers who are proficient in languages like C and C++ to build quantum apps. → Read More