Amazing illustrations from La Vie Électrique
There are some awesome illustrations in the 1890 sci-fi novel "Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique ("The Twentieth Century. The Electric Life") by Albert Robida.
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Safe hostnames and IP addresses for examples
Scenario: you’re writing up some documentation for your HTTP library. You’ve been working on it for hours, and it is getting mind-numbingly boring. You need to provide some examples of fetching by hostname and IP address. No problem:
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On "Strong Opinions"
"Strong opinions, loosely held" doesn't resonate with me like it once did.
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The Condor Cluster
I’m fascinated by the Condor Cluster, a US Air Force supercomputer made from 1,760 PlayStation 3s.
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Who can say what is good or bad?
Once, a wise old Java programmer was assigned to a new project, using a new front-end framework called React. “What poor fortune!” cried his coworkers. “Now you must chase this latest JavaScript fad!” The wise old programmer simply shrugged, and said “Who can say what is good or bad?”
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