Thursday, August 19, 2021

slice of life appeal

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In 2017 I posted about an immersive experience of preparing authentic 1949 Twinkies from scratch using 1949 baking pans and a 1949 heavy cr...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

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Wonderful! Great characters and a big heart. 4 of 5 Stars.
Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

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I really enjoy Pinker's books; this one was recommended by a family member.  Pinker's fantastic reasoning, exposition, and championi...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Elon's 5 Rules for Engineering as they apply to software development

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On Friday 2021-07-30, Elon Musk conducted a long interview and SpaceX facility tour with photographer-turned-YouTuber Tim Dowd aka " Th...
Monday, August 9, 2021

A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F Hamilton

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Great collection of stories in the "Confederation" universe of Peter F Hamilton.  4/5 Stars.

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

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Great characters & clever insights into tech, decent awe-and-wonder.  There were too many twists and contrivances in the story of the ma...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

improved command line tools

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Many of us spend a lot of time typing at a shell and using command line tools.  Personally, I have been typing at Unix since 1977.  This exc...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

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I missed this one in the series, sped through it.  Not bad, 4/5 Stars.
Sunday, August 1, 2021

So you think you know about domain name service (DNS) records?

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Jan Schaumann has cataloged all 100 resource record types in github in a blog entry, and within the live zone files for his domain  panix....

Recent trends in DevSecMLOps

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InfoQ has released their July 2021 trend report, covering evolution of services, including on-premise, cloud, SRE adoption, observability, ...