An individualistic, markets-oriented, accelerationist, expansionistic reaction to Solarpunk . Term coined by NASJAQ — About Me Related, but not identical (todo: piece apart): Elliot Hershberg ’s frami
For awhile now, I’ve had the thought that an economy based on renewable energy might return to using sailing ships as working cargo ships. Apparently some other people had the same thought, and those
Spoke at @turingfest today about what I see as being the ingredients in building great software.
I wrote this up as a post, too: https://t.co/fBTGggheTn
It’s an exciting time to be following developments in clean technology. There are plans for oversized water heaters that can prepare an entire day’s hot water whenever electricity is cheapest, “distri
An Audi e-tron vehicle with charger at an event outside the Department of Transportation in Washington on Oct. 20. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Imagine a world where every Blockbuster Video has been conv
In 2009, I left my graduate job in Australia and moved to the UK with my British partner. I'd been working as a programmer for about two years. The economy was reeling from the 2008 crash, so I took w
This would be easier if you could hear it for yourself. I can tell you what TropeTrainer was, what it did, and what it meant to people. I can tell you about the person who made it, about what happened
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. I t is an insolent
I've given this blog post as a talk which you can watch here: A while back, Guillermo Rauch (creator of Socket.io and founder of Zeit.co (thecompany behind a ton of the awesome stuff coming out latel
This is great science: instead of telling Long Covid patients to fuck off, Dr. Pretorius and her colleagues went back to the basics, literally blood under a microscope, and may have cracked the case for long covid AND other post-viral fatigue syndromes https://t.co/18Oal88IwM
The Matrix: Resurrections was one of the worst films I saw in 2021. I wanted to walk out several times, and probably would have had my partner asked to go. It was difficult to sit through. The best th
Brief talk at Cloud Native @Scale , May 11, 2021, 5p PDT Code for the demo for this talk lives on GitHub here . Abstract Going cloud-native is about how we design our applications, not just how we dep
"COVID-19 has prompted a universal awakening about the power of our buildings to make us sick or keep us well. At this point, really, who wants to go back to a building that isn’t healthy?"
My article in @TheAtlantic
#HealthyBuildings
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Link copied to clipboard Did Ford’s electric F- 150 just shake up the home backup power market? Tesla popularized the concept of batteries in the home. Ford connected the home to the truck. 1 June 202
(Shutterstock) Most people are at least vaguely aware at this point that power utilities are the Bad Guys in the story of renewable energy — fighting rooftop solar , clinging to old coal plants , and
C all it the Jerusalem pilgrimage of summer 2020. Every Saturday night, thousands of young people from around Israel gather outside the prime minister’s residence, on Balfour Street, beating drums, bl
SAN FRANCISCO — A reporter and producer at Yahoo News, Marquise Francis usually devotes 6 to 10 hours a week to his voluntary role leading a group for black employees at the site’s parent company, Ver
May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making
Lately, @alexbdebrie has been keeping DynamoDB single-table on top of my mind. Thinking about other datastores as sorted indices has helped me write better code and use S3 as *its own* query engine without external components like S3 Select
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Some major Bradfield news: as of 6 months from now, all classes will be online via Zoom. Some rationale here for the curious: https://t.co/iDzSQhnqn4 So if you've been wanting to take a course in person with me in San Francisco, you have 6 months!
Back in 2016, in Message Processing Styles , I was sort of gloomy and negative about the notion of automated mapping between messages on the wire and strongly-typed programming data structures. Since
I really don’t like tapas. A dinner made of a bunch of tiny plates, with two-bite morsels on each? Eh, I’d rather stuff my face with a giant cheeseburger. At least . . . that’s what I always thought.
I like Git commit messages.Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime.I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git
This month, we’re taking a different spin on our Day in the Life of a Remote Worker series and spotlighting a job hunter. Job searching can be a strange and challenging time of transition for many, bu
In the summer of 2016, I gave a talk at a small TED x conference in northern Virginia. I began by admitting that I’ve never had a social-media account; I then outlined arguments for why other people s
Published in Marker · 14 min read · Feb 7, 2019 -- Medium no longer allows this article to be read easily, so I’ve moved this article to be available directly on my website . Sorry for the inconvenien
This one is for software developers. One of the basic ideas of agile software development is that the requesters of software have the primary responsibility to understand customer value and to explain
This article is patron-supported. Click to become a patron today. He looks so thin ,” my sister said to my mother the other day. “He’s not eating.” My mother, who lives in Jerusalem, is visiting for t
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