This is great science: instead of telling Long Covid patients to fuck off, Dr. Pretorius and her colleagues went back to the basics, literally blood under a microscope, and may have cracked the case for long covid AND other post-viral fatigue syndromes https://t.co/18Oal88IwM
The Matrix: Resurrections was one of the worst films I saw in 2021. I wanted to walk out several times, and probably would have had my partner asked to go. It was difficult to sit through. The best th
Brief talk at Cloud Native @Scale , May 11, 2021, 5p PDT Code for the demo for this talk lives on GitHub here . Abstract Going cloud-native is about how we design our applications, not just how we dep
"COVID-19 has prompted a universal awakening about the power of our buildings to make us sick or keep us well. At this point, really, who wants to go back to a building that isn’t healthy?"
My article in @TheAtlantic
#HealthyBuildings
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Century-old Ford Motor Co. did something in May that the clean energy industry hadn't yet accomplished: combine clean backup power and an electric vehicle. "Ford is the first in the U.S. to offer this
(Shutterstock) Most people are at least vaguely aware at this point that power utilities are the Bad Guys in the story of renewable energy — fighting rooftop solar , clinging to old coal plants , and
"Making meetings more accessible to remote employees doesn’t just make meetings more accessible to remote employees; it makes meetings more accessible to everyone."
@HeyChelseaTroy explains why.
https://t.co/zZwuqFfw1J https://t.co/AZDmpANUj8
Ideas The absence of a government plan to deal with the economic crisis, along with a second wave of COVID-19, has triggered a surge in opposition. August 13, 2020 Yossi Klein Halevi Senior fellow at
SAN FRANCISCO — A reporter and producer at Yahoo News, Marquise Francis usually devotes 6 to 10 hours a week to his voluntary role leading a group for black employees at the site’s parent company, Ver
May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making
Lately, @alexbdebrie has been keeping DynamoDB single-table on top of my mind. Thinking about other datastores as sorted indices has helped me write better code and use S3 as *its own* query engine without external components like S3 Select
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Some major Bradfield news: as of 6 months from now, all classes will be online via Zoom. Some rationale here for the curious: https://t.co/iDzSQhnqn4 So if you've been wanting to take a course in person with me in San Francisco, you have 6 months!
Back in 2016, in Message Processing Styles , I was sort of gloomy and negative about the notion of automated mapping between messages on the wire and strongly-typed programming data structures. Since
I really don’t like tapas. A dinner made of a bunch of tiny plates, with two-bite morsels on each? Eh, I’d rather stuff my face with a giant cheeseburger. At least . . . that’s what I always thought.
I like Git commit messages.Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime.I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git
This month, we’re taking a different spin on our Day in the Life of a Remote Worker series and spotlighting a job hunter. Job searching can be a strange and challenging time of transition for many, bu
In the summer of 2016, I gave a talk at a small TED x conference in northern Virginia. I began by admitting that I’ve never had a social-media account; I then outlined arguments for why other people s
Sahil Lavingia Feb 7, 2019 · 14 min read This article is now available directly on my website . I’d prefer you read it there! Credit: Zdenek Sasek/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2011, I left my job as th
This one is for software developers. One of the basic ideas of agile software development is that the requesters of software have the primary responsibility to understand customer value and to explain
This article is patron-supported. Click to become a patron today. He looks so thin ,” my sister said to my mother the other day. “He’s not eating.” My mother, who lives in Jerusalem, is visiting for t
Steve Krouse ( @stevekrouse ) is a programming language researcher. You can follow his work and podcast at futureofcoding.org and join the Slack community at futureofcoding.org/slack . If you don’t look up, Dynamicland seems like a normal room on the second floor of an ordinary building in downtown…
D iscussing cities is like talking about the knots in a net: they’re crucial, but they’re only one part of the larger story of the net and what it’s supposed to do. It makes little sense to talk about
How To Have More Energy: 3 Powerful Secrets From Research *** Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To
I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem th
It’s been a long, long Monday. You get home from work, eat dinner, clean up, flop on the couch, and doze off watching TV or mess with your phone. Then you repeat the same routine Tuesday, Wednesday, T
Designing Event Driven Systems – Summary of Arguments This post provides a terse summary of the high-level arguments addressed in my book . Why Change is Needed Technology has changed: Partitioned/Rep
A little over three years ago, I left my job at Social Media Company Who Shall Not Be Named to join Lyft as an Engineering Manager leading the DevOps team. I had two main goals: the first was to drama
Translations: Chinese French Italian Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started
Exclusive interview with Patricia Torvalds 03 Aug 2015 Feed 520 up Image by : Photo by Becky Svartström. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0 x Subscribe now Get the highlights in your inbox every
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