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unserious article written by inane consultancies feeding at the trough of linkedin. The diagram itself is hideous. Software consultant, solution architect, solutions eng, all do wh…

Honestly I'm kinda down on most of FB's tech, but them pioneering Scuba was pretty sick. It has all the wide logging/apm/tracing/etc, and it's hard to describe how useful it is if …

A fork of a fork I guess, Organic Maps was originally `maps.me`, and I suppose we're forking it again

One thing I haven't seen being discussed is the BEAM internals becoming a little long in the tooth. We still have static reductions before the scheduler switches to another task, t…

Yeah, I don't know why this falsehood continues to persist. WhatsApp and Ericsson engineers continue to work together to evolve Erlang, alongside a bunch of other people across the…

WhatsApp very long ago used to hot reload across all nodes with a ssh script to incrementally deploy during the day

Huh, kinda funny, I feel the exact same way. Few people IRL know about my website, 2-3 people occasionally write in a year about something, but weirdly it feels like the idea of a …

I have consulted for UNDP and DPPA during my time in Iraq, although that left me with complicated feelings about that industry.

I went and did a masters on Middle East studies, focusing on Shia rituals in Iraq. I moved to Baghdad (and south Iraq) for a year, wrote up my research here: http://malloc.dog/karb…

I would be curious why kube cron jobs didn't seem to fit the bill, my favorite part of these posts are when they have a section hinting that they explored other options picked spec…

Physical notebook and data entry later.

I keep all my zettles at https://wiki.malloc.dog/ . When I was doing my masters in anthropology at the same time as my SWE job, I ran into this issue of having too many notes and n…

Why is this news? Iraq does this, Jordan does this, it's common throughout the region to block internet. It's not effective, and usually there are carveouts (office internet still …

http://malloc.dog/ - anthropology of Islam stuff and distributed systems

If we buy into the fact that we can account for "culture" onto this distribution, this article assumes that the distribution has remained the safe size and shape, and so he draws t…

it's fine, there's hordes of youtubers roaming through. I'm a foreigner living in Karbala that's fluent in Iraqi Arabic, so I'm typically not in those circles. Visa on arrival for …

I actually live close to here, and trek out occasionally to show friends the ziggurat. There's some live excavation going on sponsored by the UN, but what's wild is that every rand…

come on dude are we really equating LGBT rights with "will answer tickets for Bitcoin users"

seems like he's arguing that the pinnacle of communication is the API spec

interesting how different this is from the salaries at large companies on levels.fyi. annoyingly, the dice URL is broken currently, so I can't verify the underlying dataset.

Man even though the third party Fever apps were mostly terrible they had such a scrappy vibe to them. Really liked Fever, back in the days when you could sell a self-hosted thing f…

pulsar was seeing quite a bit of hype back in ApacheCon 2019 already

This truly feels like https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer/ , where every blog post rehashes the well tread territory of Hugo/Jenkins/Netlify/GH Pages or Wordpress/Bl…

If ZK wasn't such a pain in the ass to manage I'd agree with you.

The typical response to these types of posts is "oh your /toy/ server doesn't account for x, y, z in my use case, like ddos, network issues, etc. But how many people actually handl…