I noticed a few years ago as people starting dumping their smart phones for flip phones. People like Adam Curry from NoAgenda wanted to gain back some privacy from companies like Facebook and Google. I’ve been in the computer field for a long time. I learned early on that physical…

Just as we force too many cattle into a feedlot to maximize profits over good health and humane farming are we doing the same to ourselves in big cities like New York and Los Angeles. If we had many more small towns it would be easier to reach herd immunity…

With the issues of the past year we should rethink how we teach our children. Neighborhoods should get together. One or two blocks at a time to quarantine until a small group of kids and a few parents can safely get together. We should create a modern version of the…

My Roomba tried to kill Alexa On a normal day, Roomba gets stuck on a carpet or stuck in a corner. If it’s a really bad day it tries to jump off the step to the dining room. …

Since March I have been locked in my home most days. This week has been different. My wife and I are in the middle of three major fires in the bay area of California. Each day we see yellow out the living room window. …

We can all agree that Facebook is one of the winners in Silicon Valley. What surprised me was talking with some friends and doing a Google search the truth is very different. Search for most profitable startups and you see revenue numbers but no numbers for profits. Why? Because there…

Just as we have gone from servers to instances, instances to containers, and containers to functions. The idea of memoryless to move low usage services to nonrunning services. With a few small servers, you can provide many apps without the need for many resources. Using memoryless and containers with intelligent…

I have been taking precautions since the last days of February. I live in Silicon Valley and this is my experience. I am just like everyone else. Watching news thinking the world is going to end. I have been amazed at how little my life has changed. I am lucky…

With the concern about Coronavirus, everyone is clearing the shelves and going home. I’m here in California and my freezer is full and I have toilet paper. I ran the numbers the other day and it looks like others are thinking of the same thing. How long is this going…