XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.
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16% complete! Ian Brown has read 4 of 24 books.
A pretty fun and frustrating account of Musk's self-immolation. I am a bit biased because the author, Faiz Siddiqui, does take a few paragraphs to document my run-in with Elon, but it goes deep into a lot of non-Twitter material.
Another (better) highlight is the chapter featuring the amazing @chancerydaily@masto.ai. Yeah Chance!
Anyway, pick up a copy at your local bookstore!
I haven't really enjoyed Ballard's novels, but his short stories fall somewhere between Phllip K. Dick and Bradbury & Asimov.
He is also a fan (as am I) of using a $10 word where a $1 word would have sufficed.
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at …
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, …
In the end, everyone just goes along.
A pretty nuanced and literate take on the off-the-grid culture of Colorado's San Luis valley. Also it has a brief appearance by a Juggalo!
Finally found the downtime to complete this fantastic survey of managed runtimes (e.g. the JVM) and heterogeneous hardware (e.g. CPUs and GPUs or FPGAs) by @snatverk@mastodon.online, @thanos_str@mastodon.sdf.org, and @kotselidis@mastodon.online.
Required reading for those who want a look at the future of software development.
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at …
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the …
A pretty good account, though it focuses on much of the high-level C-suite shenanigans as opposed to Zöe Schaffer’s excellent, employee-focused "Hardcore Engineering". Worth a read for sure.
