Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Retinopathy causing, Heart Disease inducing, irreversible liver, kidney damaging medication approved for emergency use

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FDA approves emergency use of chloroquine.  The fools!  Even the paper recommending consideration has repeated, emphatic warnings about the ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Another crutch for the insanely complex YAML in Kubernetes

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If you are starting to use Helm Charts to create your complex, long kubernetes configurations and you stumbled across Helmfile to accelera...

using deprek8 and ConfTest to prevent regressing to old APIs

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Tyler Auerbach explains a simple application of the deprek8 Open Policy Agent tool for verifying you have not regressed your APIs to older v...

Tracing and Observability

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Sanjay Nair takes us on a journey through the concepts of tracing through the lens of the OpenTracing standard and the zipkin implementat...

Message Passing Middleware Resurection

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In the olden days of the 1980s, "middleware," including messaging middleware was all the rage.  BEA systems , Vitria Systems , Tib...

Galaxy's Edge 7: Turning Point by Jason

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This part of the ongoing saga is light on "magic," heavy on close-combat, and more fun, 4/5 stars.

xenophobia, nationalism on the rise

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The Guardian is reporting a new wave of Chinese government official policy of Xenophobia to blame all wrongs on foreign devils.  The Global...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Cases, Tests, Hospitalizations

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https://covid-19.direct/US Here is another good source of data to track the contagion.  Drill down to your county.  I am waiting for a trac...

'Murican Makers making medical makeshift magic

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=036UAwQ6PZw Home made open source $100 respirator from parts you get at a local hardware store . Youtube Vid...

Surface Transmission

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Johns Hopkins has published an interesting guide to which surfaces are more or less effective at transmission and how to maintain safe near...