Watching Mages and Murderdads - Planescape Torment A fun show, pointing out as they begin Planescape Torment how much it and its setting owe to the work of Gene Wolfe, specifically The Book of The New Sun, but I think Latro in the Mist would be another apt touchstone. Reading Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01 Rodney Brooks continues to bring sobering facts to much-hyped discussion. The Dangers of Over-Engineering ...
The Iliad I’ve been listening to The Iliad, specifically the Penguin Classics Rieu translation. Excellent stuff, all the tropes of action films, embedded deep at the start of the Greek tradition. Brings back memories of classical studies in secondary school. I listened to Elizabeth Vandiver’s The Iliad of Homer course from The Great Courses, which was short and excellent. Things I’ve been reading Architecture diagrams should be code Discoverable docs are a problem with as many answers as there are people thinking about it, this one seems good if you’re not already committed to other tools. ...
Swrve got acquired Per MessageGears Acquires Mobile Marketing Leader Swrve Great news for all involved, happy for the team. Finished Spinoza’s Ethics Fantastically interesting book, a lot to digest. Things I’ve been reading Data Systems Tend Towards Production Bytesize Architecture Sessions Design Docs, Markdown, and Git Logging Practices I Follow Pip Install Data_team > A lot of technical reading this week The Power of Journaling Writing and Labelling in a Journal Writing Docs Well: Why Should a Software Engineer Care? > Writing is a core development skill, making it a daily practice only helps ...
Non-Fiction Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly Fiction Peace by Gene Wolfe The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Last Days by Brian Evenson Pattern Recognition by William Gibson The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima The Secret History by Donna Tartt Dune by Frank Herbert
Beginning with work year with a hackathon An excuse to further my Rust learning, and work with a couple of engineers who know more than me on the topic, I learned a lot. Types provide so much, it would be unwise to forget their power and place (felt rusty after years away!) Some links I found helpful: https://github.com/rochacbruno/py2rs https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ into_rust(): screencasts for learning Rust Commentary: Thoughts on Rust After Six Months Rust for Data Engineering—what’s the Hype About? 🦀 Things I’ve been reading Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit - Notion’s use of ChatGPT has been backward-engineered. Interesting to see prompts powering product features. 200M Twitter Profiles, With Email Addys, Dumped on Dark Web for Free - more fun times for Twitter General Guidance When Working as a Cloud Engineer - General good advice on engineering work heading into the new year. The 100 Year Computer - computer as heirloom would be a wonderful thing. I hope my notes at least become something I can pass along Alex Horne on the Secret to His Cult Show Taskmaster I’ll be reading Neuromancer Book club’s next pick. Read it years ago, looking forward to it, remember it being great and I read Gibson’s amazing Pattern Recognition last year. ...