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Before microservices were a thing, I had the chance to work on a couple of telecom systems written in Erlang/OTP, but it wasn't until years later that I realized we were already do…

Looking back at the time this article was written, I used to believe the same things, that people would rise up, mesh networks were going to change the world, and the distributed w…

Don't judge the author too harshly. Ingrid presents an overall perspective of the entire field. Yes, some definitions are somewhat skewed, but I'm sure many people see things the s…

I started writing blog-like text entries in my .plan file in the mid 80s, so others could use finger in UNIX and read what I was thinking. I later learnt HTML just so I could keep …

I find Althea [1] a lot more interesting than Helium, where their crypto is used basically as an incentive model for bandwidth, with no proprietary hardware or software in the mix.…

There have been several posts in recent weeks on this topic, and every time I have the same reaction: how can they all just ignore TiddlyWiki [0], that has been out there since 200…

Let's not be hypocritical. What we really want to know is: did you find/preserve intact DNA? If the answer is yes, I'm not even going to speculate what happens next. We just know i…

Although as a non-expert, the methodology of the study seems sound to me, I find its conclusion depressing. I know it wasn't their intent to attempt to provide solutions, but it bo…

After years of being beaten by customers with stories like these, I learnt to treat InfoSec and Compliance teams as finite state machines , particularly at banks and other financia…

Yes indeed. I had the pleasure to work for Ascend Communications for 4 years. The bulk of our business was the Ascend Max TNT that could terminate dozens of PRI lines into hundreds…

True. I visited Medellin a couple of times between 97 and 2006 when I was doing business in LATAM, and I recall clearly that many locals had tremendous admiration for Escobar, cons…

I find fascinating how many folks, typically on the younger side, gravitate to proprietary (and expensive!) software like Roam Research and others, in search for personal knowledge…

Property taxes in CA punish the newcomers and reward old money. When I bought in Mill Valley in 2001, I was literally paying 13X more taxes than my neighbor, a masseuse who inherit…

I've been using Wire for a few years and the experience is solid. No need for phone numbers anymore, just @handle, and it does multi-device encryption and backup. Its search is ver…

I keep two TiddlyWiki [0] files, one public, one private. If I feel that a certain note can become its own piece of knowledge in a Zettlekasten fashion and can have any value for s…

I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it's used in several soft…

I do something similar with Drift [0], a customized distribution of TiddlyWiki [1]. I capture as many thoughts and ideas as I can using the Zettlekasten methodology [2]. If it can …

I would also encourage everyone to read what this loss means to the local communities in Puerto Rico [0], and most particularly, to the young kids who fell inspired by it. "Kevin O…

I was thinking of Contact actually.

True. But the amount of people who care about that is tiny compared with the masses. For music for example, I'm a happy Qobuz customer because I appreciate hi-res quality and I hav…

No doubt. But how many scientific tools also become cultural icons? in an era where we need more young people becoming passionate about science and space, the loss of Arecibo feels…

I see why it can be confusing. The funny thing is that you can edit posts, but you can't save them on the server. In fact, you can save a local copy of a site built with TW, but it…

Thank you for sharing this. I read the article and I started feeling depressed (I'm turning 53 soon). Your parents show it doesn't have to be that way! Hats off to them. They're an…

For having been around for so long in its most basic form, it's pretty exciting to see an entire renascence of knowledge tools and methodologies. Every few years I get bitten by th…