Tag: Open Web
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The Resume Gap: Why Tech Hiring Is About to Get Weirder
The interview loop has not changed since 2015. The job the loop is hiring for has changed three times in the last three years. That gap is the story of tech hiring in 2026.
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Why Tech People Don’t Read Anymore, and What the Data Actually Shows
The death of long form technical reading is a complaint, not a measurement. The actual data shows the audience is concentrating, not collapsing, and the people still reading are the people still building the things being written about.
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The Tools We Actually Use to Read a Site’s Security Posture
An afternoon and five free open source tools is enough to read the public security posture of almost any website. Here is the kit we use, in the order we use it, and what it does and does not show.
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The State of Cryptography in Q2 2026
The cryptographic landscape in 2026 sits in a strange place. The algorithms everyone trusts are slowly becoming the algorithms nobody should trust, and the algorithms everyone should trust are still too new to deploy at scale. The migration has started, but the gap has not closed.
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The CISO Resignation Letter
The CISO resignation letter has become a genre. The reasons are depressingly consistent: not enough authority, not enough budget, not enough board attention, then a breach, then a quiet exit. The pattern repeats because the role has not been fixed. The resignation serves as the symptom, not the cause.
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The Real Cost of the Data Broker Economy
Your personal data is in roughly 4,000 databases you have never heard of. The data broker economy is the market that buys it, packages it, and resells it. Here is what is actually happening, and what the cost really is.
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Looking Back at February in Tech
A look back at February 2026 in tech, with the seven stories that actually mattered, the ones that looked like they mattered but did not, and the throughline that connects them.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.
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The Indie Web Comes Back, Again
The indie web has been declared dead so many times the obituary has become the running joke. The web the individual publishes, the blog the developer runs, the newsletter the writer sends, the web the platform did not own. The honest framing matters here, because the indie web that the platform kept declaring dead is…
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The Quiet Death of the CV
A field guide to the death of the CV in 2026, with what the CV is being replaced with, what the replacement is bad at, and the part about the candidates the CV is going to keep missing.