I finished reading Dr. John K. Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design and wrote a short review of it. Overall, I found it to provide a good overview of design at a level appropriate for junior engineers. Still worth reading for seniors, too! blog.irrational.engineering/Book-Reviews...
System upgrades seem to take exactly as long as it takes for you to get nervous that it didn't work, plus one minute.
the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
We need more people translating compliance frameworks to approachable language. Great talk!
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Can you believe that until just a few months ago, @tarah.org and I had *never* given a presentation *together* on a stage?
MSP GeekCon event was officially our diner scene from "Heat"... at long last, here we are together on a stage, passing the mic back and forth...
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Enjoy!
new video
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Great quick post about EBS volume limitations. If you have any EBS volumes, you should definitely alarm on latency.
Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...
==Training Lesson==
INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵
My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience.
New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.
If Azure is heroin, what is GCP?
Nvidia must be keeping driver installation near-impossible to get right to hold back AGI because the world is not ready yet
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
At least @juliacon.bsky.social as that's most relevant to my work. And of course, I will have to tag the man himself @bcantrill.bsky.social. We would love to see Oxide at Juliacon!
Automated tools can be nice, but it's no replacement for talking to peers. Follow the people, see what they are up to
Yes! The credible exit is SO important -- and is exactly what is annhilated by these license changes. I would love to magically appear in board meetings of OSS companies and read this post aloud to them...
great points about Go and nice integration! but the package manager, error handing, and NIH syndrome have always frustrated me a lot. definitely a love/hate lang
It is shocking how consistently they just rephrase the docs with an attitude
And now that Casey's explainer is getting some visibility, Ben doesn't engage with it all, simply replying "I welcome improvements". Ben, you are making a fool of yourself, quit while you are ahead. This microbenchmark is utterly useless, no improvements can be made!
Building Shitty Gingerbread House Just Making Depression Worse -The Onion
Building Shitty Gingerbread House Just Making Depression Worse
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I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
How do you approach recording meetings with partner companies? When is it the right time?
"What radicalized you?" Hospitals, schools, libraries, SLTT govs getting disrupted. My sister impacted by ransomware *four different times*, disrupting her work and life. Watching criminals get away with it for so long.
I wrote about why we need to change our thinking. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Latest OxF is up on the pod—AND we’re back again monday when @pfrazee.com joins me and @bcantrill.bsky.social! share.transistor.fm/s/081bb0ed
Cameras would have helped the police ID the person that did just blow through my wall
devin stuck in vim rn he just like you
The AWS console's new Cloudscape UI is one of the worst UIs I have ever had the displeasure of using. So much money spent on engineering this crap and for what? It's a regression in every way (for the customer, not that AWS cares anymore). @quinnypig.com save me patron saint of AWS
it's kinda sad that digital work is so hidden
like there's no messy study room or bookshelves full of works you've read or letters from people and gizmos and widgets you've built or stacks of drawings and diagrams
it's all just, hidden in folders, already lost in space, and eventually lost to time