Tech Notes
May 31, 2020
Notes and quotes on information technology and science, as taken from various podcasts, videos and other online flotsam, May 2020.
Black Lives Matter
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 30, 2020
Only in #NYC can bus drivers force the local police force to stand down... #nycstrong #unionstrong #JusticeForGeorge #riots2020 https://t.co/iXFmeBjIrA
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 30, 2020
I stan how @AOC reminds everyone to bring snacks to the demonstration. (It’s true, #AlwaysBringSnacks) #BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/JXellvUNSU
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 30, 2020
If you hate looters, let me tell you about private equity firms
— Thorne (@ExistentialEnso) May 28, 2020
Listen - This is a message to THE ENTIRE TECH COMMUNITY: If you ignore issues faced by people who look like me in tech and want to silence voices - then you don't care about making it a place for everyone... You just want a pure sanctuary. Want unity? THEN HAVE MY BACK. SPEAK UP
— Jeremy Sinclair #WIMVP (@sinclairinat0r) May 31, 2020
Operations
To load-balance incoming traffic, @GitHub
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 6, 2020
does not use the #Kubernetes Ingress Controllers at all: "They were a level of indirection we didn't need." Traffic goes straight to the Nodeport via @HAProxy & #KubeServiceExporter -- @WilliamsJoe
https://t.co/21L89ViWKi #K8s pic.twitter.com/Y4Tm0OUfXx
Surprisingly, work is still ongoing to finalize the #Kubernetes Ingress API, which would provide a standard way for load balancers/proxies to interface with Kubernetes. Choosing the correct ingress controller is crucial to ensuring smooth operations. https://t.co/yU5mBhvIQI #K8s
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 6, 2020
#oneinfra provides “a very simple system to set up, that allows you to create and destroy isolated Kubernetes control planes at will, without the need of creating dedicated infrastructure for them.” https://t.co/SkWgQOhAN0
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 6, 2020
AWS Bottlerocket and the Age of the Linux Cloud Distributions https://t.co/GhwRKyTjkq @Joab_Jackson @LibbyMClark @ricmac @alexwilliams @mndoci @ulander @awscloud #Bottlerocket
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) May 9, 2020
Christopher Kalika of Digital Receipts is exploring the idea of using #Redis to replace #ectd for supporting #Kubernetes... #RedisConf https://t.co/cQSWXx2kWq pic.twitter.com/hpd0cjDihp
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 12, 2020
"In the era of HTTP, you could have set up a web server in 2000 and it could still be running today, working perfectly well (even if it didn't support the very latest shiny thing). This doesn't work for HTTPS, not today and not in the future." @thatcks https://t.co/qAG41anMLa
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 13, 2020
Docs! https://t.co/r9VjrCzIe8
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 14, 2020
“crashed 1,507 systems in one day” is no longer an impressive feat thanks to container orchestration
— emily@home screensaver (@emilyst) May 17, 2020
#YAML does have some limitations, especially for developers who may not be as familiar with YAML or declarative languages in general. One potential challenge is that it is very static. @nctaber @emeshbi from @awscloud https://t.co/iPBgvEzLFs #K8s #Kubernetes @thenewstack
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 20, 2020
Ok here's a new one: did you know that cows can cause network outages? Don't laugh, it happened to us.
— Urs Hölzle (@uhoelzle) May 21, 2020
The beginning of the story: recently, we noticed frequent short outages ("flaps") on a multi-terabit fiber path through Oregon. 1/
Development
"Railway Oriented Programming (ROP) is a functional programming technique that allows sequential execution of functions, not necessarily synchronous." https://t.co/XW7aHx3gap #Kotlin #FunctionalProgramming
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 1, 2020
The first computer program in BASIC ran OTD in 1964.
— Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) May 1, 2020
The language was designed by John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz and Sister Mary Kenneth Keller. She, the next year, was the first US woman to earn a PhD in computer science.
The program:
10 PRINT 2+2
20 END
Credit to @paulcoxon pic.twitter.com/RYTO9myOfQ
A rift over which #Unix text editor is God’s Own Build may not seem significant given the troubles of the world, but why has #EMACS vs. #VI remained a divisor in #OpenSource programming culture for almost four decades now? Speed vs. performance https://t.co/i3cWUR3lEF #Linux
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 4, 2020
"In 5-10 years when you're programming something completely different your knowledge of [#React] hooks will be completely obsolete." @DillonShook https://t.co/TYM8TXMKFf #JavaScript #WebDev
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 7, 2020
One of the biggest challenges with #microservices is getting all your service boundaries right. People take the term "microservices" too literally. Consider one service per team. --@crichardson, #RedisConf 2020 pic.twitter.com/xKzWpxaC6v
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 12, 2020
Built to run within a #Kubernetes cluster, @D2iQ’s Dispatch is #GitOps-based #CloudNative CI/CD software that can be configured declaratively (w/ #YAML, #Cue, #Starlark or #JSON) and deployed anywhere, https://t.co/PAYApsCy8M #DevOps pic.twitter.com/hKtqih4y01
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 13, 2020
People keep asking me career advice, here is one:
— Jaana Dogan (@rakyll) May 19, 2020
Make state someone else's problem.
javascript why u do dis? 😶 pic.twitter.com/sUzDlzC3DR
— Kap 💃 (@kapehe_ok) May 20, 2020
NewsCatcher: A #Python program to collect news stories from thousands of news Websites... https://t.co/cMqIDeUsfA
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 21, 2020
"Sidecars and operators could become a mainstream software distribution and consumption model and in some cases even replace software libraries and frameworks as we are used to." -- @bibryam @thenewstack https://t.co/XRR5anVCWD #Kubernetes #Microservices
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 22, 2020
The folks behind @Netlify are extending the functionality of its #JAMStack git-based web deployment service through the use of curated third-party plug-ins. @biilmann & @Chr_Bach, @thenewstack https://t.co/OrfDuj09CW #SSG #CMS #GitOps
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 27, 2020
Data
2 types of people - those who think
— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) May 17, 2020
* Star Trek: Discovery is dumb and stupid for including a reference to SQL “300 years in the future”
* think SQL still being used in 300 years is evidence Star Trek is a hard SF & a horrifyingly accurate portrayal of the future
"We grilled (Peter) Zaitsev about how traditional SQL databases operate in a cloud native world, as well as about Percona’s newly announced performance and optimization package for MongoDB." https://t.co/LNZn6YqtuQ by @Joab_Jackson #Percona @PeterZaitsev #SQL#MongoDB
— Percona (@Percona) May 27, 2020
Machine Learning
"AI systems look for patterns that they can recognize and repeat. The problem is, once those patterns are found, DevOps teams try to squash them" -- Danyel Fisher, @honeycombio, on #AIops https://t.co/WT7LBL5M5S #AI #ML #DevOps
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 15, 2020
“These numbers are then used to predict what a person might buy, what content to recommend, and who might be friends with whom. However, our paper argues that these methods do not work as well as people have thought,” https://t.co/OQSKH1dwIQ @kimberleymok @thenewstack #AI #ML
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 15, 2020
COVID-19
Subnet mask. pic.twitter.com/aCn0RL4pyE
— sroo (@scottreuwho) May 21, 2020
Half the fucking world right now:#PlandemicDocumentary pic.twitter.com/UatOYDVcm1
— Andrew Glessner (@DrewGlessner) May 7, 2020
The new normal? https://t.co/QdU7AHlFiD
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 7, 2020
Surveillance Capitalism
.@amazon "is exceptionally well-managed and has demonstrated great skill at spotting opportunities and building repeatable processes for exploiting them. It has a corresponding lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth."-@timbray https://t.co/dkMAsi3ksp #COVID
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 4, 2020
Facebook as the Fox News of social media... https://t.co/85XqApST7x
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) June 1, 2020
Hardware
Roughly 10 years ago, Facebook just reminded me, I moved https://t.co/4f4w6g804k from my homebuilt servers to the cloud. A few weeks later, the county dump attendants had difficulty believing one homeowner could accumulate so much electronic junk... pic.twitter.com/bqUo711Tp1
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 21, 2020
A GPS Receiver Engine built on #OpenHardware, featuring low-cost accurate time recovery. https://t.co/VjNZ4FtGAJ #OpenSource
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 19, 2020
Culture
Alex, I'll take "Things Trust Fund Kids Say At Burning Man" for $1000 https://t.co/TyywscuhFY
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) May 1, 2020
I feel seen https://t.co/CZ6Fn39Co1
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 20, 2020
"Amazon's moving and signing bonus? Little caveat on that, if you leave or are fired within 2 years, you have to pay it back [...] So now I cannot 'just leave.' With that realization came paralyzing hopelessness." https://t.co/59m8OkvxKM
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 21, 2020
“Working from home is a good and easy get out of jail card for Facebook and the new converts. It not only removes any legal liabilities, but it also shifts the ‘operational expenses’ to the employee. https://t.co/7FbEt2ieVM
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 24, 2020
Security
System #security "isn’t chess. It’s a game of poker. In chess, you have complete visibility into your opponent’s position and moves. In poker, you lack that visibility." @ForAllSecure's David Brumley, @thenewstack https://t.co/Exyn58F1eQ
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 4, 2020
So, #cybersecurity is making a big comeback as a buzzword, I've noticed from my perch as a tech site managing editor...
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 5, 2020
Curios
ZOMG! The Onion, but for tech. So overdue!! @theolognion https://t.co/RmXGEYzOyu
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) May 20, 2020
zoom needs a button that plays wrap it up music like at the oscars
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) May 19, 2020
Apple's self-driving car will run on proprietary form of electricity incompatible with The Standard Model of particle physicshttps://t.co/8fH6NZOl6z
— The Olognion (@theolognion) May 29, 2020
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