On Kafka, Confluent, and … Clojure
As I’m absorbing more of the general flavor of event-streaming and everything around it (… in the beginning was the log …), I keep gettin a bit of deja vu and realized that there’s an uncanny resembla…
Monthly recap (July 2019)
Major updates: - Laguna Beach vacation - Accepted an offer from Confluent, Joined on the 22nd! - Surprise birthday party for me (again) by Shivi - A friend’s mother passed away, attended the funeral…
Retro-active content
Just finished importing two old Tumblr blogs (each from roughly 4-5 years ago), one under my name and one ... not. So there's suddenly a lot more content at this blog, in 2014-2015 ! (of course,…
Interesting links: July 2019
(a very short list, not a lot this month, I was too busy !) * Revisiting Inside Llewyn Davis (yep, still good!) * 3-D printing human tissues * On Vitamin D, Deep sleep & Gut Bacteria * Using…
A new change
I joined Pure Storage in the beginning of last year, and felt like it was one of the best year of my life, for numerous reasons: * Learning to live outside “the Google bubble” * Meeting a bunch of…
Seveneves
The last Neal Stephenson book I read was probably Anathem, which was a while ago (I remember I was enamored enough to have subsequently bought the “accompanying soundtrack1”). Before that had been th…
Monthly Curations - Jun 2019
* Compiler comparisons: C2 vs Clang (JIT vs AOT), then C2 vs GraalVM (two JITters) * Somewhat funny: The evolution of a Scala programmer * Transitioning from “Next” to “Swift” for Apple * Nice sur…
An interview with Peter Theil
I’ve applied block quotes to the responses, all inner emphases are mine. This just something I found ... very interesting. Original source here; this is copy-pasted from Google Translate. Copyright N…
My current list of pens
Mostly just for my future self, would be interesting to see how this changes in (say) five years. 1. Lamy Safari (x2, oldest one is from 2012 !) 2. TWSBI Eco (Fine and Extra-Fine) 3. Faber-Castell…
Monthly recap (June 2019)
Major updates: * Trip to Maui (again) … this time featuring (1) hiking, and (2) close encounters with sea turtles * Two movies with Tara: Secret Life of Pets 2, and Toy Story 4 * One of our friend…
Interesting links: June 2019
* Absolutely fascinating coverage of key (and forgotten) developments in the history of electrical technology * A lot of original music records are susceptible to getting lost * Inspiring: learning…
Rediscovering an older self-version
I've started a new blog or a new online journal so many times, some private, some public, that I've really lost track of all of them. This is mildly complicated because some of them were pseud…