Journal 2017

Collecting ideas and annotating bookmarks.

August

Kubernetes ConfigMap separate concerns of app and its config

Teaching Kubernetes is an explorer's map of new territory

Our First Kubernetes Outage thoughtful incident report worth mining for nuggets about what to monitor

Exploring Trust game theory simulation of trust

Hacking Federated Wiki provides helpful guidance for getting acquainted with the moving parts and components that make wiki work.

Extreme Modularity and Security in Depth reviews Dr. SES (ecmascript with security constraints) with exceptionally clear thinking about security

Typing with Pleasure discusses human and computer factors in reducing latency for typing

everytimzone.com a beautiful visualization to help with the problem xkcd points to today

September

Visualizing Concurrency in Go offers WebGL visualizations to clarify thinking about concurrency and parallelism.

HYPERCARD! WHAT IS IT? Bret Victor tweeted a 1987 episode of Computer Chronicles introducing HyperCard.

Preparing to Code in which I collect memories and ideas about calendar and method plugins, among other things

Alan Kay's Inspiration McLuhan, Montessori, Papert

October

Private NPM Registry candidate for supporting local plugin development

Embrace Failure The nature of failure is changing as complexity grows. So must or software design and monitoring.

Experimental Plugin Deployment in my corner of the federation has been mostly in docker.

November

Explore It! reviewing charters and planning some exploration

Registration Workflows proposal to enable farm hosts to limit growth of their farms

Rhythm Autonomy Mastery Purpose Safety aka RAMPs. Humane motivation

Jon Udell pointed to sovrin: link

Workflow for Partitioning Complexity in which Kent Beck offers a step-by-step example of a pattern of working in code.

Dismantling Mathematical Privilege in which an educator suggests stats instead of algebra for college entrance requirements.

another observability thing link I keep reading that word and I'm not sure it means what I think it means

In Cities Alive as Hypertext Ward describes a state machine used to convert from the html markup of an electronic publishing format into wiki-shaped json.

December

Lessons I learned from College of Architecture and Planning: Boxes and Arrows are the most universal design tools for everything.

Spawn or Not advocates separating concerns of code structure from runtime structure in Elixir using functional decomposition to model a round of blackjack.

Make a New Plugin with a docker accent.