We are poisoning ourselves because of our paranoia

The US centers for disease control (CDC) has released a study indicating that Americans are poisoning ourselves trying to kill the respiratory infection over which the world has lost its collective mind.

YAML intellisense completion macro family for vim

If you spend a lot of time editing kubernetes YAML in vim, consider checking out this introduction to coc-vim and coc-yaml.  Video version here.

LinuxKit, Azure, and Unikernels

Steve Follis takes us on a very simple small-scale implementation of creating a modern LinuxKit VM image on Azure optimized for docker containers.  Docker appears to be steering LinuxKit into a half-way measure between pure Unikernels and modern, immutable single-purpose VMs. His tour shows off some of the new Azure features and is a quick read.

Why Open Policy Agent (OPA) and the Rego language are so odd

Tim Hinrichs takes us on a 3-part series explaining the origins of the Rego domain specific language for OPA.

DevSecOps: InfoSec and DevOps working together

Kelly Shortridge takes us on a deep journey into the relationship between InfoSec and DevOps, complete with game theory analysis and some great references.

detailed, tutorial example of github action

Github actions are all the rage right now as people realize github itself is a lighter, more powerful, and better Jenkins for many applications.  Jeff Rafter wrote this extremely detailed example and explanation in typescript (a JavsScript dialect with Types) complete with testing and other details.

Learning is different from Fixing

John Allspaw summarizes some useful information and advice, mostly from Ryan Kitchens' "learning from incidents" web site. 

Kill Switch by Joel Shepherd (Cassandra Kresnov book 3)

The stories are starting to grow on me a little bit but I still prefer Shepherd's other "Spiral Wars" universe.  The Kresnov universe's third book has some space combat but a weak plot ending, 4/5 Stars.

Make vaccines great again!

David Brin opened his latest missive with this story about the "Asian Flu" of 1957:

"Maurice Hilleman, a doctor later regarded as the godfather of vaccines, in 1957 read about a nasty flu outbreak in Hong Kong that mentioned glassy-eyed children at a clinic, tipping him off that these deaths meant the next big flu pandemic." Hilleman requested samples of the virus be shipped to U.S. drugmakers right away so they could get a vaccine ready. Though 70,000 people in the United States ultimately died, "some predicted that the U.S. death toll would have reached 1 million without the vaccine that Hilleman called for... Health officials widely credited that vaccine with saving many lives." 

Dwight Eisenhower was the president. The "Greatest Generation" admired science and expertise. The most celebrated and popular American at the time was named Jonas Salk. Let's all make America that kind of great again.

I agree!

Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds

I prefer Reynolds' other SF series to this gritty steam punk universe.  However the story and writing are fun, 3/5 stars.