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.
XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.
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For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at …
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.
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times …
Another great bit of brain floss from @scalzi@mastodon.social! Finished it in a day. Felt good to get another book under the belt. I'd been struggling to complete one for a while now. Hard to find time these days for anything that requires a bit of uninterrupted attention.
Stoked to start on new (to me!) stories from @AnnLeckie@stranger.social!
Magnus Pym and Edward Avon and Rick blend together with a funeral at the end of all of it. Sprinkle a little Nietzsche on top and you have a wonderful wrap up of the John le Carré extended universe. It all ends, of course, with a bureaucratic whimper. Anyway, it is Cornwall at his best.