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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.
Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, and the Nordletter.
Oooohhh Summer, How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk? by Craig Mod
The world doesn’t need a park that bans rollerblading. It needs one that bans smartphones.
Oh yes it does.
The other takeaway from Matthew’s talk was people tend to “report” stories rather than tell them. So they report what happened and what was said, but they leave out what they a) thought, and b) felt. Add those two in and you’re doing better than most.
I’m trying to do the second part more in my nordletters.
On building scalable control planes by Dr Werner Vogels
One thing the team talked about constantly, almost to the point where it became a mantra, was that no matter what happens to the control plane, VMs that are already running need to keep working. We call this static stability, and it sounds obvious because of course running VMs should keep running. But at scale, obvious things are the hardest to protect, because every new feature, every change, every dependency is a chance to accidentally violate that guarantee. Maintaining it is the difference between an outage where customers can’t launch new resources and an outage where everything stops. Both are bad, but the second is catastrophically worse. The fact that EC2 was statically stable gave me some comfort in my early days.
Such an insightful post. I come from the context of servers having memorable names, sure a large infrastructure (4000+ servers) but still a context where you ssh to servers and fix them if they go down.
In a day including the time it took for us to travel from and to Barcelona (3.5 hours via train), we managed to do the following things: 1. The Bernabéu tour 2. Have lunch at Adrak Restaurant 3. Rest at Retiro Park 4.…
Since writing is also a tool, the advice on honing your tools also applies to writing. The best way to get better at writing is by writing a lot. Write daily. By writing a lot of bad prose, you will eventually learn how to write better and get more comfortable with writing. Take every opportunity to write. Maintain a blog. Read a lot. All the while, be mindful of your writing. Always consider how you can improve it further.
I feel like I’m at a place with my writing where I know how I write. But still I find these sorts of posts interesting, where people talk about the craft of writing, the tools they use and so on.
I want to be a better writer after all.
Murat is someone I was not following before. I came to know about them through this write that blog series, which I came to know after Simon Willison linked to his interview with Write that Blog.
I have several unlinked notes on writing, maybe this is a signal for me to create a common note.
I’m on vacation! We travelled to Barcelona aboard a connecting Lufthansa flight. This is perhaps the first time we have travelled short duration flights (Helsinki Munich Barcelona), so the experience was a bit similar…
Destin Daniel Cretton · Loved it
There’s a new mark above or below as read in NetNewsWire. It feels like it was designed for me. Some feeds that I subscribe to - mostly aggregator style feeds - have too many items in them. I don’t usually have the time to go through all the items in one go. In those cases, I was usually marking all as read without reading or doing nothing. This solves that feature.
Added a life calendar to my about page. Now to add entries to the system.
HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts by Jay Peters
Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing a vertical video feed to HBO Max to help you find something new to watch. Streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus, and Peacock already offer TikTok-like vertical video feeds to surface content that might be interesting to users, and now HBO Max will have a similar feed of its own.
Much of the content I see on YouTube Shorts for example is just clips from shows and movies, clipped for vertical form factor. And they are entertaining.
The problem is not the content. The problem is where the people are. I don’t find myself opening Netflix when I want to watch vertical videos. I’m on Instagram or YouTube and then they show me the vertical videos.
The problem is that people don’t pick up Netflix or HBO to pass time at work or elsewhere. They pick up Instagram or YouTube.
I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore by vōx
When you become chronically ill or disabled, you begin to understand how deeply this ideology has embedded itself into the psyche. The shame of no longer being able to work consistently feels personal. As though my body’s inability to keep pace with capitalism says something fundamental about who I am.
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