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A look at “low-level” schemes (though still missing a mention of Gambit/Gerbil)…
Monthly recap: July 2022
Major update(s) * An "almost forty" birthday party for me and Shivi * Car trouble (more on this later) Minor update(s) * Found a new used books store in Menlo Park * "Family boa…
Everything getting older
Food for thought > The Onion's Our Dumb Century is a classic satirical look at the twentieth century, of course, but it's also a nice tour through the American zeitgeist over that time. On…
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Spectacularly contrarian take: "Use one server" > When you experience growing pains, and get close to the limits of your current servers, today’s conventional wisdom is to go for shardin…
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Two approaches to (web)publishing The “just use Fossil” approach is particularly novel!…
Public art in a surprising place
Hilton Waikoloa’s art collection > In pursuit of that goal, Hemmeter traveled to China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and beyond. He spent at least a year traveling and shipping artwork back t…
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Need to clean up storage :-|…
Books on Software Complexity
(from this HN thread) If only all posters collected their responses into a spreadsheet like this one did Here is the summary post (my preferences in bold): From my perspective, the top "must-r…
Language comparison
Came across this pros/cons table recently (some un-named company, when deciding on micro-service language-of-choice): Mostly agree, except that * We do have generics in Go (as of 1.18) and "..…