Notes for week 12-13 of 2022

Two years into pandemic, time has come for me to enjoy meeting the nemesis. All went reasonably well, but I wasn’t able to do much.

I’ve been thinking if it makes sense to duplicate a list of liked tweets here, similar to recommended readings. I don’t do it much and I use it as “save to bookmarks for search”. Would you be interested? Let me know.

Random

• This is in the recommended reading section, but I want to single it out. The colored bits is such a useful metaphor
• Some companies tried to use mercury for space engines (I am not sure if it’s as bad of an idea as proposed, but both perspectives are interesting)
• ~8 in 100 people that ever existed is alive
• Dan’s answer on why he’s doing cURL is…inspiring
• “What I can do or stop doing”?
• “You are not technical enough, I mean proficient in a package, I mean the one you wrote”
• Good visualisation of how many language speakers there are
• Asian perspective on overpopulation
• Didn’t knew that T4g Instances can be used for RDS, excellent news for my small projects
• Shot scraper for programatically taking pictures of websites
• In Week 12, I’ve walked 39 km and rode 101 km. I’ve been active for 14.6 hours during 9 activities. This week’s max speed was 52.5 km/h and I conquered 1665 elevation meters.
• I relaxed in week 13. I’ve been active for 1.8 hours during 4 activities.

Recommended Readings From This Week

• How to Prevent, Identify and Address Vicarious Trauma — While Conducting Open Source Investigations in the Middle East: Witten for Middle East, valid for Ukraine
• We change more than we expect (so keep your options open!): We underestimate how much we change
• Zed Shaw’s Blog: Guilty as charged
• The project with a single 11,000-line code file: On useful files.
• Levels of Technical Leadership: Food for thought: two types of IC leadership
• Staff archetypes: Useful taxonomy.
• The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes in 2022: Can’t wait. K8s is an infrastructure detail.
• What Colour are your bits?: On intents behind bits.
• The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism: The usual, but it hasn’t occurred to me that intentional crypto manipulation could very well influence elections valek-a-voboril-abstinencni-politika-u-zavislosti-selhala-cesko-pujde-racionalni-cestou-snizovani-rizika): Prekvapive rozumny.
• The queen of crime-solving: On real-world CSI
• Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.: On limits of AI, and lack of incentives for collaboration
• The CIA’s EarthViewer was basically the original Google Earth: Had no idea Google Earth is CIA-based
• How to Drink Alcohol and Lose Fat
• Surviving an open-plan office: Yes.
• It’s Not as Simple as Calories in Calories out but Calories Still Count. Here’s Why.: Notes on CICO
• Drifting away the time: Drifting is a good word to add to my dictionary
• The Best Fat Loss Article on the Motherfuckin’ Internet: Been a whilw since I read about calorie counting, but didn’t knew about the study and I do wonder what studies the disputers cite
• Searching for outliers: Fat-tailed distributions in a technical context
• Why The Lucky Stiff Documentary