12 December 2021

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Generating Envoy Config with Cue

A few weeks ago I added an Envoy-based reverse proxy to a project at work. Envoy's configuration format is well-documented, well-structured and mostly sane, but its complexity is commensurate with the power of Envoy itself. To provide a single format for all E…

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NOTE. The metaverse in this article is meant as a term used to describe a social 3D virtual world/economy in general and not Facebook’s recent rebranding.

Starting the QUIC Design - OpenSSL Blog

The OTC recently agreed a new design process that needs to be followed for future releases. See here for details. Moving forward designs for …

Mati's dating profile

This profile is written with the goal of finding someone to raise children with.

andrewducker | Interesting Links for 12-12-2021

The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable

Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens

I fail phone screens pretty often, which limits my job prospects and is embarrassing for someone with ten years of industry experience, a pretty extensive Github account and a publicly available list of difference-making projects. 1 In theory a phone screen is…

crawshaw - 2021-12-11

There is more than enough written on the mechanics of and mitigations for the recent severe RCE in log4j. On prevention, this is the most interesting widely-reshared insight I have seen:

6 tips for teaching yourself philosophy - Brain Fodder

If you want to know more about philosophy but don’t know where to begin, here are some practical tips to get started. There’s an unfortunate perception that philosophy is, by nature, obscure, difficult and inaccessible for the lay reader. But whilst it’s true …

Worked example of automata runs as sheaves

This post is about "sheaf semantics," a way to model, understand, talk about dynamic phenomena. The situation is that you have some represen...

The Problem with Finance APIs

Since 2014 I invest and trade with stocks. Since then, I always wanted to create programs which make my life as an Investor easier and since then my journey with always reliving finance API problems started. Unfortunately I didn’t find my first PHP scrip…

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