23 December 2023

25 links · Saturday

I Just Need a Programmer

I was contacted this week by an old acquaintance, and he had a proposition for me. "Hey, I hear you're a programmer! That's great, because my buddy and I have this idea for a business. We have everything important figured out, and all we need is a prog…

xmas.c, 1988

The second block has more real work going on. If the character stored in the variable _ does not match the first character of the string a, the code recurses in such a way that this same block of code will again be entered. That is, t=-65 forces a return to …

Dial-up over a Discord Call

Hello and welcome back to The Cool Blog. For once I’m finally doing something other than operating systems and instead and back to doing something that shouldn’t be done. Dial-up over Discord.

Bluesky (@bsky.app)

📢 1.60 is rolling out now (2/5) Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login! You can finally share your quality posts with the group chat or in articles. If you don’t want the Bluesky app to show your posts to logged-out users, opt out …

How to build a windmill · Jacques Mattheij

Windmills have always fascinated me and for a long time I was dreaming of one day building my own. Where I live there are still machines from the 1600’s that are just as magnificent today as when they were first built. When you see one standing in a field rota…

The Firewall Guy

About 20 years ago, I worked as an independent consultant at a major telecom. I wrote a program that did some stuff, and couldn't get it to ...

Maybe you don't need SRE

Running a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization correctly is difficult and expensive. Spare the frustration, perhaps what you need is Sysadmins. Since the term was coined by Ben Treynor in 2003 at Google, lots of ink was spent on praising SRE practic…

Inertia of evil in good faith

Good people can fight against the evil that evil people do. But when evil is done by the good?

Made with Tea: Jendrik Poloczek

I'm Jendrik. I work on products and companies of the future with inspiring and creative people. I've been a machine learning researcher, a senior software engineer in small and large scale tech companies such as Coinbase and now I'm part of the investment team…