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Mar 21, 2020 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Exploring Immutable Infrastructure with Vault

During the last year, I have been curious about Immutable Infrastructure. After researching, I noticed that I had been applying some of these concepts already to stateless Docker containers, and I ...

Mar 12, 2020 from Remains of the Day

Veblen values

NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do...

Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges

The Only Type of API Services I'll Use

I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...

Feb 14, 2020 from seize the dev

A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows

A guide to compiling C programs on Windows, with all the gotchas in one place.

Feb 05, 2020 from PREPEND

Cleaning up Tableau workbook files to remove the inline thumbnails

I like to track my Tableau visualization projects in git to protect against screwups and for curiosity of what previous versions looked like. Theoretically, it might help with collaborators working...

Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges

My Personal Financial Strategy

I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...

Jan 13, 2020 from PREPEND

How to identify yourself, when yourself changes? Neal Stephenson's PURDAH.

I try to read every book by Neal Stephenson because he writes characters that I wish I could be, or perhaps are the closest to from any other characters in fiction. I was excited when Fall; or, Dod...

Jan 08, 2020 from Remains of the Day

The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture

“Si vis pacem para bellum”translated “If you want peace, prepare for war” I hadn’t planned on seeing John Wick 3 - Parabellum, but out for a walk in Stockholm in May, I got caught in a sudden downp...

Jan 07, 2020 from Remains of the Day

The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity

I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent....

Dec 13, 2019 from Remains of the Day

Narrative debt

HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of fan fiction to ever appear on the silver, errr, OLED screen. DC may lag behind the Marvel Univers...

Dec 13, 2019 from Nadav Ami

Writing Resources

An evolving collection of (mostly technical) writing resources that I have found useful. US Government - Plain Language Checklist RFC 2119 - RFC Requirement Key Words Divio Blog - What nobody tells...

Dec 05, 2019 from Max Brenner

Minikube vs. kind vs. k3s - What should I use?

These days there are a few tools that claim to (partially) replace a fully fledged Kubernetes cluster. Using them allows e.g. every developer to have their own local cluster instance running to pla...

Nov 14, 2019 from Remains of the Day

Smoke and Mirrors

“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him...

Nov 13, 2019 from Remains of the Day

Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century

Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private.More than that, though, the Internet,...

Nov 01, 2019 from twilweb

CLI and REST API for activemq

ActiveMQ provides an easy to use api that can be used to produce or consume messages via commandline. See ActiveMQ site for detailed post. Simple command to post to a queue : curl -XPOST -d "body=<...

Oct 31, 2019 from Renfei Mao on flujoo

自学成牛的作曲家

阿诺德·勋伯格（Arnold Schoenberg），可以说是现代音乐的开山鼻祖，一位历史级、世界级的作曲家。但你可知道他基本是靠自学的？本文将谈谈他的这部分经历。 他有多牛？ 什么样的作曲家称得上牛逼？可能得满足以下条件： 作曲技术精湛，创作了一些高质量的作品，这些作品被世界级的演奏家、乐团演奏。 有自己的一套作曲技法，这套技法对其他作曲家或音乐的发展有一定影响。 音乐史书上会提到 TA，...

Sep 12, 2019 from Coding Horror

The Rise of the Electric Scooter

In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it’s not like the cost of fabricating rubbe...

Aug 20, 2019 from Coding Horror

Electric Geek Transportation Systems

I’ve never thought of myself as a “car person.” The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then,...

Jul 11, 2019 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

How to write optional filters in SQL

A simple way to filter by optional values in SQL with the COALESCE function.

Jun 15, 2019 from Renfei Mao on flujoo

不爽，但有效的学习方法

本文要介绍一类学习方法，一方面，它们能让你记忆更持久，学习效果更好，有大量研究支持；但另一方面，它们使用起来会让你不太爽，所以通常不是人们下意识的选择。这类方法下面有很多个变种，表现形式不同，但核心相似。我们先通过下面的实验来认识其中一种。 背单词实验 这项实验发表于 1979 年，实验流程简化一下是这样的：1 科学家找到了你，你的朋友天天和月月一起来背单词。 单词以「中文-英文」这样的形式...