







The Calm Tech Institute provides consulting and certification for distraction-free products.
Calm Technology
Bits flowing through the wires of a computer network are ordinarily invisible. But a radically new tool shows those bits through motion, sound, and even touch. It communicates both light and heavy network traffic. Its output is so beautifully integrated with human information processing that one does not even need to be looking at it or near it to take advantage of its peripheral clues. It takes no space on your existing computer screen, and in fact does not use or contain a computer at all. It uses no software, only a few dollars in hardware, and can be shared by many people at the same time. It is called the "Dangling String".

Trust & Safety Tycoon
Manage your team, set policies, make investments, and tackle the challenging world of Trust & Safety

Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…

Specialisation | Code and Interactive Systems (Bachelor) | FH Salzburg
After completing the foundation year in your first year of study, you will choose your specialisation and focus on either Future Web & Mobile or Game & Immersive Tech. You will also select a specialisation – either Interaction Design or AI Engineering – to expand your knowledge and skills in a targeted manner.

Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.
Online Trust and Safety Hub: Stay Safe Online | Internet Society
Learn how to stay safe online, protect your privacy, spot scams, identify false information, and build safer digital habits.
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
“I’ve hit my limit of what I’m willing to tolerate”

The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026
Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 2 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents (internal codename: “Honk”) and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .

Padding Labs
Padding Labs builds software on the AT Protocol. Apps that give you ownership of your identity, your data, and your name.

We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’
Expert in building reliable digital platforms and leading high-impact technical teams. 20+ years experience at the intersection of technology, teams, and learning.
Credentials, Rooms, and Walls: Mezzanine Meets Composable Trust - Nightflight
AI Detector — Verified AI Content Checker | Pangram
Detect AI-generated text in essays, articles & documents. Identifies ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & more with 99.98% accuracy. Third-party verified results.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
