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Some older texts, all about blockchains …
- Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree – ACM Queue, Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
- Git, PGP, and the Blockchain: A Comparison – Netfuture, Marcel Waldvogel
An attempt at technological genealogy.
- XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress – apenwarr
XML solved syntax, which turned out not to be the problem. Blockchains [purport to] solve centralization, which will turn out not to be the problem. But they do create the incentive to slash and burn and invest a lot of money hiring consultants.
- 10 years of… whatever this has been – apenwarr
I forgot one essential reason bitcoin has survived: Because people really, really, really want it to.
- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain – Kai Stinchcombe
After years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.
- Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster – Drew DeVault
Cryptocurrency has invented an entirely new category of internet abuse.
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I still keep a rather old PGP key around, and I have extended its lifetime by changing its expiry date. Something I would not recommend, because everyone with an old copy of the key in their keyring gets an “expired” warning or error.
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Soup.io wird abgeschaltet. Ich habe der Seite schon 2017 den Rücken gekehrt als nach einem Ausfall drei Jahre Daten verloren waren. Auch damals hat die Finanzierung durch quasi-Spenden von Nutzern schon nicht für einen sicheren Betrieb gereicht.
Und doch trifft mich die Nachricht jetzt wieder weil vorher noch viele Jahre vorhanden waren; aber wenn das nun ganz offline geht, dann stirbt ein Stück meiner persönlichen Internetgeschichte.
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More on programming …
- The Lines of Code That Changed Everything, Slate
To shed light on the software that has tilted the world on its axis, the editors polled computer scientists, software developers, historians, policymakers, and journalists. They were asked to pick: Which pieces of code had a huge influence? Which ones warped our lives?
- UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? – Zach Holman
Programming time is pretty weird. It can sometimes make you feel week in the knees, and very days and confused about how it all fits together. But watch it: this is hour burden to bear, and we can’t just let it past us over.
- So you want to be a wizard – Julia Evans
This zine is about what the skill of “figure it out anyway” looks like.
- In space, no one can hear you kernel panic – Glenn Fleishman, Increment
When you’re millions of miles from home, it’s hard to install an operating system update—but not impossible.
- Programmer’s critique of missing structure of operating systems – Bystroushaak
As I was thinking about it, I’ve realized that architecture of the operating system itself is wrong for this kind of job. The stuff it offers and the stuff it allows us to do, is not what we want and expect. […] How about we take away all the weird string formats, whether it’s passing command line parameters when launching programs or communication in between the programs, and replace them with a concise, easy-to-write language for structure definitions?
- Programming for Everyone, Everyone’s a Programmer? – Observations from Uppsala
It is probably good to be able to do a little bit of it at home for household needs. But don’t equate that to the professional development of industrial-strength software.
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On the Web and its tools …
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On AWS …
- AWS Graviton2 – James Hamilton, Perspectives
I believe there is a high probability we are now looking at what will become the first high volume ARM Server.
- Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances – Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
For our use case, M6g is superior in every aspect to C5: it costs less on-demand, has more RAM, exhibits lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and runs cooler with the same proportional workload per host.
- A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway – Alex DeBrie
AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. […] In this post, you’ll learn the different steps in an API Gateway request. For each step, we’ll see what you should be doing in that step and how it fits in the overall picture.
- How to optimize AWS Lambda performance – Efi Merdler-Kravitz, Lumigo
In this article, we are going to talk about various parameters to be considered for AWS Lambda performance tuning.
- Why is AWS IAM So Hard? – Stephen Kuenzli, #NoDrama DevOps
IAM is really important and it’s really hard for a lot of people, even on good teams with robust processes.
- AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it – Corey Quinn
Companies that currently aren’t thriving love to blame AWS for their problems. But I don’t think the criticism sticks.
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