Mark Jen used to have a small technical-oriented blog read by a few people (much like your humble Technollama). Then he started working for Google and everything changed. He started using his blog ninetyninezeros to descibe conditions at Google. He wrote some candid posts about his short life with the company, something that did not sit well with the powers that be. Only eleven days after starting, he was fired.
When did Google join the Dark Side?
On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one of the longest single projects Read more…
We’re moving hosting over the weekend, so expect the site to be down at least until Monday 19th.
Last week I read a very interesting Twitter thread by Jack Edwards in which he made a subject data request to Spotify. Amongst all the data about your listening habits there’s a file called inferences.json, Read more…
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Andrew Ducker · February 19, 2005 at 3:36 am
According to what I read, he used his blog to post confidential information about internal financial data (legally not allowed) and unreleased products (not allowed by the company). I'd like to know more information about the whole thing, but people don't seem to be talking.