Knowing how GPUs mounted in PCIe slots work is important for troubleshooting and understanding the logistics of parallel processing. This is a great overview that is well worth the effort, but make sure you understand the OSI model before tackling it.

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP allowing users with accounts behind Tech Giants’ walls to communicate with whomever they please. The Tech Giants don’t own the standard messaging protocols and they don’t own you.

Matrix launched a Peer to Peer framework this year to further protect user’s data and give them absolute total autonomy and ownership of their secure conversations.

The Matrix Foundation is adapting their P2P framework to incorporate global spanning tree ideas from Yggdrasil with a modified keyed routing mechanism which they adorably named SNEK, intending to integrate their protocols into IPFS.

Yggdrasil is an experimental decentralized network communications protocol that uses a global spanning tree in the form of a scalable IPv6 mesh network that encrypts any kind of IP data end-to-end.

The bill always comes due. Technical debt is a concept that developers are all intimately familiar with. This article explains it in terms upper management might understand.

If this makes you excited and nostalgic you may be at risk for a condition called “becoming old”… just like the rest of us.

Here’s a solid set of 20 reasons to leave social media behind and invest that time and effort into improving yourself instead. Yes though, it feels wrong to new an article about quitting social media… to social media.

For most of us, our attention is the most valuable resource we have. Spend it wisely. “Part of the answer is to spend less time consuming and more time thinking.”

“Forever Support” is ridiculous at scale, but maybe we should consider either extended minimum viability maintenance or perhaps open source the stack on deprecation allowing enthusiast communities to perform their own maintenance after hardware retirement.