I've neglected my blog for way too long, but I had a lot of fun satisfying my inner map geek while making this post that examines the bizarre municipal annexation maneuvers on Colorado's urban frontier. cafbit.com/post/game_of_zone…
Wow, the first 20 minutes of this video has network legends like Bob Metcalfe and Vint Cerf cracking jokes about why the Zoom doesn't work. Best technical difficulties ever. :) youtu.be/ZhecOHQ3jrQ
Happy 40th birthday to the IBM PC! What a strange journey it's been.
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After needing for years to close a Wells Fargo LoC, but failing to find a low-friction way of doing so, I'm absolutely delighted they've finally decided to make this easy. ;)
cnbc.com/2021/07/08/wells-fa…
David Simmons retweeted
The #IEEE Information Theory Society is proud to present The Bit Player (@BitPlayerMovie), the first feature documentary about the father of the information age, #ClaudeShannon.
Now available on Amazon Prime Video: amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B…
#TheBitPlayer
With all the bad news these days, it puts a smile on my face when an inspiring article like this comes down the feeds. :) quantamagazine.org/graduate-…
RIP Chuck Peddle, designer of the MOS 6502, the chip on which I learned machine language programming and how computers *really* work.
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Today I walked around the former site of Bell Labs in Manhattan, where the idea of representing information as 1s and 0s was conceived (among many other incredible accomplishments) thus ushering in the modern information age.
I sometimes joke that with layer proliferation, you'll someday open your phone to find a whole Internet inside, complete with BGP routing. And then I see this. projectcalico.org/why-bgp/ Granted, it's an SDN for clusters and not for phones... yet. ;)
I spent the afternoon at @mediarchaeology in Boulder, where you can actually play around with all the vintage computers in their collection. I think I want to move in. 😀
I've posted my slides on Rust WebRTC data channels from Tuesday night. Thanks @DebugSteven and @focusaurus for making the Rust meetups possible! cafbit.com/post/rust_webrtc_…
I'll be speaking about my side project Tuesday night at the Denver Rust meetup!
"Implementing SCTP to support WebRTC data channels in pure Rust" #rustlang
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TIL actix-web wakes up once per second per HTTP thread to pre-render a date string, even in the absence of requests. Probably an optimization for high tx/sec; still pokes at my inner embedded programmer instincts. :) #rustlang
This Broadcom/Qualcomm hostile takeover war is producing absurd amounts of junk mail for us shareholders. :/ The only real winner here is the post office.
Things learned from a source code dive... Tokio internals: Understanding @rustlang's asynchronous I/O framework from the bottom up cafbit.com/post/tokio_intern…
Unicode,1988: "Text character encoding...of all the world's living languages." 2017: "Frowning pile of poo, anyone?" buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/i…