2 July 2022

28 links · Saturday

Institute for the Study of War

The Kremlin is likely setting conditions for crypto-mobilization of the Russian economy in preparation for a protracted war in Ukraine. The Kremlin proposed an amendment to federal laws on Russian Armed Forces supply matters to the Russian State Duma on

Computing on the Baire Space – my Sochi talk

Recently I was invited to give a 1-hour tutorial at the Computing in Topological Structures workshop (CTS 2022) held partially by zoom and in person in Sochi, Russia. Here are the slides plus some …

Winding down the VPS Showdown by Josh Sherman

It’s been a long time since I wrote my original Linode vs. DigitalOcean post. The year was 2013 and it was a simpler time. Over the last [nearly] ten years, the humble post grew from being the output of my own gross curiosity about the performance of a couple …

Steve Ruiz

How to increment a name to avoid duplicates.

Lessons I learned from senior engineers

“Why is this important”? Good senior engineers always ask “why” this feature, or function or even project is necessary. Understanding “why” allows them to make decisions on “what” to do, “how” to do it and even how to take shortcuts to get there. They also und…

Open Source is Not About You

Open Source is Not About You. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Ranges and Indices in C# - Code Maze

In this article, we are going to learn more about ranges and indices in C#, and how to use them to extract a subset of an array.

Announcing: Learn TLA+ • Hillel Wayne

tl;dr: online TLA+ manual/advanced techniques/examples here. TLA+ is a tool for testing abstract software designs. I first stumbled on it in 2016 and found it so useful I wrote a free online guide to help others learn it. Then I decided the guide wasn’t good e…

My Balance Box

It's about time we started to accept that humans have emotions, and share them with each other. As part of my ongoing commitment to radical vulnerability, I built a box that tells everyone how I feel in real time.

Toward Robust

What I strongly feel to be the essence of robust after years of gory struggle for robustifying software, countless philosophical discussions, and meditations.

CloudFormation is Dead, Long Live Terraform

If CloudFormation were a person, it would be just starting secondary school, worrying about looking cool to its new friends, yet not old enough to drink or drive. If CloudFormation were a dog it would be enjoying its twilight years, lying in bed, chasing squir…