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Richard MacManus

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Tech Journalist at The New Stack

Founder of ReadWriteWeb and Cybercultural (https://t.co/6duOxNS9mQ). No longer on X; you can find me now on Mastodon at https://t.co/hgsU1W3nw7

Articles

  • 6 days ago | thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus

    With all the hype around AI, it can be difficult to know which aspects of AI technology are actually being implemented inside enterprises. To find out, I spoke with Brian Wald, who heads up GitLab’s Field CTO team and is in regular contact with enterprise IT departments. Wald described the Field CTO role at GitLab as one that provides strategic, high-level advisory support to businesses undergoing digital transformations.

  • 1 week ago | cybercultural.com | Richard MacManus

    Online music retail was thriving by 1996, thanks to sites like Music Boulevard and CDnow. But music downloads and streaming was more of a challenge — as David Bowie discovered in September 1996. The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus

    With Kubernetes and the cloud native community now 10 years old, KubeCon was a chance to both look back and look ahead for Google’s Jago Macleod, engineering director of GKE and Kubernetes at the company. In a fascinating presentation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London this week, Macleod explained Google’s initial motivation for open sourcing Kubernetes, how it evolved over the following decade and — most interestingly — how it plans to accommodate the changes wrought by generative AI.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus

    This week marks my 5th anniversary of working at The New Stack. When I started, in the final week of March 2020, I had to quickly get used to the “cloud native” world. What was Kubernetes and why did everyone keep talking about it, what did “serverless” mean exactly, what did the acronym CI/CD stand for, what were “micro services”? It wasn’t as if I was a tech neophyte — I’d founded the pioneering tech blog ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and ran it until 2012.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus

    With virtually every coding tool now infused with AI, developers are increasingly asking themselves: what type of coding tool should be my default now? Do I need one of those new-fangled “agentic IDEs” or is Visual Studio Code good enough? What role does the cloud play in AI tooling? To answer these questions, I’ve surveyed the dev tool landscape and picked out some trends for developers to watch.

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Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus @ricmac
22 Aug 24

Remember when we thought Twitter was the key to democracy? 😂 It's March 2010 and the Paley Center hosts an event in NYC starring Chinese artist and activist @aiww, Twitter CEO @jack, and your humble RWW editor. We're discussing the future of democracy. https://t.co/4k6TDO02xt https://t.co/ELJJw1JtkW

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus @ricmac
10 Nov 23

I'm no longer posting on X. I socialize at these places: - My newsletter, where I'm serializing my book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution" https://t.co/X5cTAzsiw3 - Mastodon: https://t.co/khJg2t1tAp - Threads: https://t.co/WurzkWote9 https://t.co/EhQ3haeK0B

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus @ricmac
6 Nov 23

The latest installment of my new book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution." It's 2004 and I'm a member of the blogosphere. This is pre-Web 2.0, but with new "social software" sites like Flickr, it's heating up. https://t.co/wS3hKYHtNY