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What Broken Technology Reveals About The World

Roman Kudryashov

Roman Kudryashov

What is Integration Testing?

What is Integration Testing?

On June 17th, HBO accidentally sent out an email meant for only internal developer audiences. This email was an integration test, confirming that the code was running as intended. Except, they sent it out to everyone... by an intern.

023 - Outdoor Advertising

023 - Outdoor Advertising

You drive down your local highway. Strip malls are to your left and right. You stop at a red light. To your left is a

022 - ATM Error

022 - ATM Error

My wife and I debated for some time as to whether this qualified as an error state. “But it’s not entirely broken!” she argued.

021 - Starbucks Screens

021 - Starbucks Screens

My last year in high school and a few years through college, I worked at Starbucks. It was a pretty great job as far as

020 - Even Geek Squad

020 - Even Geek Squad

There’s a lot of reasons why a business might put up a screen (or a TV that mirrors a computer). It is eye catching!

019 - Too Much of a Workout

019 - Too Much of a Workout

Judging by the buttons, it looks like it is running a flavor of Android. I can’t blame Les Mills. Cardio is hard. I’ve

017 - Leftover Pay Phones

017 - Leftover Pay Phones

Every so often, I come across an old pay phone. They’re usually as raggedy as an old alley cat, broken, and left in the

017 - At Ikea

017 - At Ikea

Spotted at an Ikea in Denver, Colorado. Coincidentally, there seems to be only one IKEA in Colorado. Whenever a number of different screens come together,

016 - Old Televisions

016 - Old Televisions

Spotted in Boulder, Colorado. An old TV sits around in a restaurant, playing static. Glitch aesthetic.

On SolarWinds and FireEye Getting Hacked

Why the US government hack is literally keeping security experts awake at night (CNN) Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to

On Firing Timnit Gebru, Google’s AI Ethics Chief

“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” lays out the risks of large language models—AIs trained on staggering amounts

Breaking Changes & API Degradation

See also this discussion components versus tools on hacker news: Hinges - like everything else on CarpentryHub - are either in a state of permanent