Stumbled upon this homage to the old powers of ten video from the 70s: Our Universe is SO big, it’s mindblowing! 🤯 BBC.
Category Archives: Chatter
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.
goto conference talks
Some talks from the goto conference that came through recently:
Flash Fiction Stories: 25 Examples of Lighting-Fast Stories
Today I discovered: Flash Fiction Stories: 25 Examples of Lighting-Fast Stories. There’s some cool stories in there. I didn’t read all of them.
PHP DoH endpoint
This in the news today: A simple PHP script that can be used to add a DoH endpoint to a HTTPS server.
InfoWorld articles
Today I discovered InfoWorld with these articles:
- Complexity is killing software developers
- Why you should use a microservice architecture
- No one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore
And a bonus article from Spotify: How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem .
Also, I should note, I very much like the InfoWorld URL format: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3614850/no-one-wants-to-manage-kubernetes-anymore.html — this is the same URL structure I use in my own designs.