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The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist
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Open-source alternatives to SaaS
A list of open-source alternatives: Awesome open-source alternatives to SaaS
Lab whiteboard
Got myself a whiteboard for my lab. It’s not a real lab unless you have a whiteboard!
How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS
An article about the history of FreeDOS: How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS.
Big universe
Stumbled upon this homage to the old powers of ten video from the 70s: Our Universe is SO big, it’s mindblowing! 🤯 BBC.
ping!
Note to self: if you hear a computer go ‘ping’ and you’re not sure where it’s coming from, check the VMs on your Mac. End note.
Chomsky and Orwell
I was watching The YPU Debates Noam Chomsky — “Resolved: End the American Empire” and he mentioned Orwell’s proposed introduction to Animal Farm.
Recent articles
So via r/programming today: Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad. and Anti-Patterns When Building Container Images.
And via lobsters: How Does NTP Work? and The curse of scalable technology.
MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040
Slavoj Žižek
Today I learned of Slavoj Žižek while reading my MEAP copy of Street Coder.