Saturday, February 29, 2020

Star maker by Olaf Stapledon

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Very good!  Dated by the cosmology understanding of the time (100 years ago) but it stands up nonetheless.  4/5 stars.  Deserves all the acc...

The Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl

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Really good, 5/5 stars.  I shall read the earlier stories.
Monday, February 24, 2020

Heechee Chronicles by Frederik Pohl

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Fantastic, 5/5 stars.  Now I must go back and read the first three.
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Kotlin domain specific language (DSL) instead of YAML

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T his codetalk video by Fedor Korotkov is another alternative to copy/pasting large YAML files.  Here, Fedor shows how to use kotlin instea...

Too much copy/pasted YAML

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Daniele Polencic tells us how and why we should use templating tools like yq and kustomize  to template our YAML with real code instead of ...

Amazon's passion for operational excellence

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Adrian Hornsby, an Amazon architecture evangelist (whatever that means)  is writing a long, three-part blog post espousing his views o...

shadow org chart (graph) of influencers in an organization

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This fascinating blog entry by the CEO of Carta is worth sharing.  He noted, "I am the CEO and did not make the top 10."  ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Galaxy's Edge 2: Galactic Outlaws by Nick Cole and Jason Anspach

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Interesting turn of events in this great story line. 4/5 stars.

Galaxy's Edge: Attack of Shadows by Nick Cole and Jason Anspach

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Non-stop close-quarters combat, 4/5 stars.  Fun.  I don't like the mechs or telekinesis. And the science (celestial mechanics) is crap. ...

The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

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Catching up on the collected works of Frederik Pohl, and this one was ok, 3/5 stars.