Smart TV adventures
We have an Android TV at home. Turned it on tonight to watch some Netflix in the background, get informed that “the network needs to be set up”. Okie dokie ... wait, the router isn't scanned? We&…
On “old” songs
Obviously, my songs were new and my parents’ songs were old, but I found myself listening to some music today and suddenly realized all of it was around 25 years or more in the past, which is (just fo…
Monthly Curations - July 2019
(yep, not a lot this month …) * On MonoRepos * On the purpose of programming * Remembering the fifth generation computing project would have been shocked to know it came from ordinary commodity m…
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…