Transactions are not very hip anymore - so unhip, in fact, that people started building databases without them. Alas, as people who decided to try those databases found out, transactions remain a fundamental aspect of applications that don’t break horrifically. Except, it turns out that even if you have transactions, it’s surprisingly easy to shoot yourself in the foot.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
We like to blame the worlds governments, or the ominous Them, for the current mass surveillance society we live in. It’s an easy way out - but pull the curtain aside and you and I both know there is a programmer sitting behind it. We, the profession of software engineering, built the Orwellian future we now inhabit, and it is high time for a retrospective.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
On march third, a young man named Brian Flanagan was refused entry into Ireland. The border police officer he happened to have been paired up with believed the occupation Brian cited as his reason for entry, “user experience designer”, was made up.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
Markets are an incredible way to organize and share the spoils of labor, but in many aspects they are based on assumptions that no longer hold true. A dive into how the open source economy radically changes how we trade.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech