Traillerrrr for Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, the ooooopera! Coming to Michigan Tech in October, if you are around m.youtube.com/watch?v=biBHcM…

Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO May 26, 2005

Hot news off the press: Postman acquired observability startup Akita Software. I sat down with Akita's founder and CEO, ✨ Jean Yang ✨ to get more details about the history of Akita, and advice on selling startups. Today's free issue goes into the details: blog.pragmaticengineer.com

📢 BREAKING NEWS for all Conway's Game of Life enthusiasts out there! 📢 Earlier today the first oscillator with period-41 (208P41) has been found by Nico Brown! ⠠⠵ Conway's Game of Life has been finally proven to be ominperiodic! ✨

✨ Now open ✨ “Revealing Threads” featuring MAEP artist Tia Keobounpheng's abstract tapestries, influenced by traditional Nordic handwork techniques infused with contemporary interpretations and symbolism. Learn more: bit.ly/3Q2PQzr

The impact from this is way wider than initially thought — this is sending ripples across the whole tech sector! A thread that may or may not be a bit paranoid / anxiety-powered 🧵 1/22

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Never forget that in 1989, Penn & Teller, who were fascinated by the advancements at Bell Labs, contacted Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike to play an AI-themed prank on their boss, Nobel prize winner Arno Penzias youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv…

Learned from Max Kreminski that there is a name for one of my favorite types of website: the Prof. Dr. Style. contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/

Debugging tail latencies requires unpacking abstractions that developers normally ignore. In his #P99CONF talk, Mark Gritter will describe how you can fix issues faster by knowing how to diagnose more sources of delay and failure. bit.ly/43RHzlV #ScyllaDB

"Can a Programming Language Reason About Systems?" by Marianne Bellotti Marianne (Strange Loop 2023) youtube.com/watch?v=FuhEHu…

Neat! I was not aware of this either, although the idea of combining the name lookup with the first part of the handshake was something we explored in TRIAD. When you don't get DNS caching because you're using it for CDN/load balancing-ish reasons, that extra RTT is painful.