XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.
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The second book by Kushner that I have read. While enjoyable and riddled with small insights and minor profundities, it reads like it was written after finishing a graduate class on the Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Overall though it was a solid read.
I've read her novel "The Flamethrowers" and I dug it, so looking forward to this one.
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny …
This was a trip to read. Every narrator and author is somewhat unreliable, especially when it comes to memoirs, but a lot of what is in this book scans.
The lengths to which #Facebook has gone to prevent the author from publishing or promoting this book just make it a more compelling read.
Overall it is written better than most tell-alls, and the author seems to have retained a fair amount of emails and notes from her days at Facebook^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Meta.
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.
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.
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times …
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three …
A solid "Meh". Overall I found this a weak and haphazard collection. There are a few gems but a lot of rough. Stick with Liu's fiction.
