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How I build software quickly

Software is built under time and quality constraints. We want to write good code and have it done quickly. If you go too fast, your work is buggy and hard to maintain. If you go too slowly, nothing gets shipped. I have not mastered this tension, but I’ll share a few lessons I’ve learned. This post focuses on being a developer on a small team, maintaining software over multiple years. It doesn’t focus on creating quick prototypes. And this is only based on my own experience! “How good should t

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The movie and TV tech we actually want to use

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie’s deeply dsytopian undertones. If you’ve talked to anyone working in AI, they’ve surely told you about the assistant in Her, despite that m

The Newest Alamo Drafthouse Is a World-First Godzilla Cinematic Experience

Alamo Drafthouse is working on a multi-year alliance with Toho that will bring with it new merch and special Godzilla programming—and it’s kicking off today with the opening of a new Drafthouse theater in California that will become the world’s first fully Godzilla-themed cinema. io9 can exclusively reveal the first details about Drafthouse and Toho’s new partnership, which formally kicks off with today’s opening of the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, Cali

Identity Assertion Authorization Grant

This specification provides a mechanism for an application to use an identity assertion to obtain an access token for a third-party API using Token Exchange [ RFC8693 ] and JWT Profile for OAuth 2.0 Authorization Grants [ RFC7523 ]. ¶ This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.¶ The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://drafts.aaronpk.com/draft-parecki-oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant/draft-parecki-oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant.html. Status information fo

Reddit adds analytics and drafts for comments

Reddit is making it easier to gauge the impact your comments are having. The company is introducing detailed analytics for comments that measure views and other engagement metrics. Reddit shared the change as part of a larger batch of updates around how it handles comments on its platform. Comment insights will provide details around upvotes (including the ratio of upvotes to downvotes), replies, views, shares and awards. Additionally, Redditors will now be able to share comments as a standalon