Paul Biggar

Press Release: https://techforpalestine.org/press-release "we don’t have the right to show humanity towards Palestinians without being silenced or cancelled" - venture backed tech founder, in personal message to me Tech For Palestine (Twitter, Github) is a collection of over 40 tech founders, engineers, marketers, community

What happens when a small band of crypto enthusiasts, with innovative ideas around federation and moderation for a distributed social media protocol, find 10,000 left wing shitposters playing in their demo instance? Last week, Bluesky Social, the new and shiny invite-only Twitter clone, had a moment. Some of the

Again this year, funding for open source is making noise. Throwing their hands in the air, breathless open source advocates on the Orange…

I made a URL shortener for Hacker News. The project itself is pretty simple, but the tech stack behind it is pretty interesting. I built it…

Hkrn.ws is a URL shortener for hacker news.

For the last 4 years, my creative juices have mostly been applied to writing about CircleCI, the developer ecosystem, and Continuous…

Last week, I wrote It’s the Future, a piece that satirized the container ecosystem, lightly mocking Docker and Google and CoreOS and a bunch of other technologies. Lots of Docker enthusiasts enjoying being the butt of the joke, but it was also much loved and shared by lots of

There’s a lot of challenges in testing your code against 3rd party APIs, so I’m going to explain some best practices that we’ve come up with or seen customers use over time at CircleCI. [Photo credit to @manp] There are two kinds of 3rd party APIs: ones

In yesterday’s “Vacations are for the weak", Seth Bannon said: “Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job.” While we’re stating the obvious, I have another myth I’d like to put to rest: “Silence is for the weak“. Too

I’ve worked on phc since 2005, and been its maintainer since 2007. I wrote the optimizer, and nearly everything performance related.