Micro.blog October 2021 Photo Challenge day 2 📷: dark

📷 Day 1: Touch micro.blog October photoblogging challenge

In some personal news, I’m now living in Atlanta! We moved at the end of the summer and are getting settled in. I’m excited to have a new city to start exploring. Looking forward to finding out what fall is like here.

Here’s a photo from the new neighborhood.

Incredible and terrifying GOES satellite images of Hurricane Ida! I hope everyone in the storm’s path is able to stay safe!

This is amazing! Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

Also, IBM created a lot more operating systems than I ever knew.

Via @512px

Ordered a @Playdate! Looks like I got in early enough that it’ll arrive before the end of the year.

shop.play.date

Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them.

What a disappointment. Toyota used to be a leader here and it’s sad to see them pushing to delay improvements.

See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America

I think 2020 was the first time I experienced a red sun and hazy sky due to distant wildfire. Now will this be the new normal for summer in the US?

“When it comes to both feeding people and learning about space, we do not face an affordability crisis: We face a resource distribution crisis. Protecting the deeply human connection we all have to the wider universe should motivate us to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are taken care of. We can afford to do the caring work of sustaining people, including honoring everyone’s right to know and love the night sky.”

Opinion: What Richard Branson and his critics both get wrong about equal access to space

This weekend I read A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake which is a story about climate change’s impact on Lake Michigan and Chicago. I thought this was a really great look at the history of Chicago’s relationship to flooding and water management.

I have a little firsthand experience with Lake Michigan’s water level fluctuations in recent years, but had no idea of the, at times, devestating effect it has on Chicago.

On a side note, I think the web presentation here is a cool use of multimedia, especially the 3d map views.

Brood X is here!

New 🚵‍♂️ day!

Happy to be getting into mountain biking. First ride was great!

Reading

Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Here technology itself will return to the forefront: if the priority for an increasing number of citizens, companies, and countries is to escape centralization, then the answer will not be competing centralized entities, but rather a return to open protocols.

An interesting look at how the internet will potentially evolve. I’ve certainly been cognizant of the centralization of technology and means of communication. I do hope we find a good balance where the key technologies can be decentralized. Open protocols seems to be a major part of this.

Spotted the first one of Brood X! Not the healthiest specimen, but still exciting.

STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH:

And lastly, if you are a telecom executive or regulator in the United States, you have no choice but to see Starlink, its execution, and the unrestrained excitement and hype around it as a direct indictment of your rhetoric and efforts to properly connect this country to the internet over the past two decades. Dishy McDishface is a sign that reads YOU FUCKED UP AND EVERYONE HATES YOU. Read the sign. This is your fault.

No one told me Python has type hints now! 🐍

Re-reading Aqua and Bondi by Stephen Hackett @512px. This book covers Apple’s development of the first iMac as well as Mac OS X and felt like the right next step after reliving the early days of Mac OS X through emulation.

Now that I’ve got this book open, I have to say I’m tempted to buy one of the original iMacs. It’s so iconic…

Trillions of cicadas are coming to the U.S. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

I’m unreasonably excited to see them emerge.

An interesting response to Safari’s impact on the web and app ecosystem:

The main issue is, non-standard standards. I.e. the bad habit the web has taken to require devs to adopt new APIs that are not finalized and will break in a matter of years.

– @falessandrelli

Reading Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist:

Infrastructure feels like it’s been built to solve hard scalability and reliability problems. There’s some amazing infra and I’m in awe how much hard thinking must have gone into it. But things are rarely built to optimize for developer productivity.