3 June 2020

25 links · Wednesday

Declining worker power versus rising monopoly power

Since the early 1980s, the US has seen a falling labour share and slow wage growth for typical workers, while measures of corporate valuations and measured markups have increased. A number of papers have argued that increasing monopoly or monopsony power can e…

Avoiding Unexpected Navigation

For over twenty years, browsers broadly supported two features that were often convenient but sometimes accidentally invoked, leading to data loss. The first feature was that hitting backspace woul…

Ways To Help

Ways To Help

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk

Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article “Bits of History, Words of Advice” that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: …today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever two or more Smalltal…

The Current State of OpenTelemetry in .NET

In the past we’ve discussed why distributed tracing is becoming commonplace and the OpenTracing standard for instrumenting libraries and applications. In this post I want to touch on the emerging OpenTelemetry standard, which will become a common component use…

How to write a (toy) JVM

Exploring JVM specification and trying to write a little code to interpret a Java class like a real JVM.

QuantumBox/blackgamedevs

A list of Black game developers. Contribute to QuantumBox/blackgamedevs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Black Game Developers

A list of black game developers, designers, artists, and more. Here they are. Hire them. Buy their stuff.