How much will openness matter to AI?

Sometimes in tech we misunderstand our history. For example, because Linux eventually commoditized the Unix wars, and because Apache and Kubernetes became the standard plumbing of the web, we assume that “openness” is an inevitable force of nature. The narrative is...

How to succeed as an independent software developer

Success as an independent software developer requires a lot of preparation and hard work, as well as some luck. But as baseball executive Branch Rickey once said, luck is the residue of design. Income for freelance developers varies depending on factors such as...