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The chautauqua continues next week: meetup on microservices @ Auvik
I know you have all finished reading Zen and the Art now (and several of you have finished Lila), so you all understand what a Chautauqua is. We’ve been through a few now, and are starting to ratchet the learning up a little bit with this next one, hosted by our good friends @ Auvik.…
A purple monkey ate my homework? The inter-connectedness of cloud
So YouTube is down tonight. My money is on some nation-state-shenanigans with BGP routing table injection, but that is wild-speculation. So what does that have to do with my homework? Well, you see, I use G-Suite. And as part of that, Google Slides. And there’s this one slide I want to have a little audio-opener.…
Misguided auto-updates in a container world
Let’s say one day you are casually browsing the logs of your giant Kubernetes cluster. You spot this log message: “npm update check failed”. Hmm. Fortunately you have an egress firewall enabled, blocking all outbound traffic other than to your well-known API’s, so you know why it failed. You now worry that maybe some of…
The deflation of crypto-currency (stinking cesspool!) and crypto-kitties: an update
Earlier I wrote about cryptokitties. The concept is you design a virtual ‘tamagotchi-like‘ cat and then try to sell it to suckers customers via Eth. Looking back in on them it seems that they are somehow anti-inflationary. The selling (well asking!) price of a cryptocat has gone up by about the same amount (expressed in…
The brave new world of soldering iron software: work-around QuickCharge 3.0 charger issue
Recently I bought the TS80. I was sad to find that it does not do USB-C PD, only the proprietary Qualcomm QuickCharge 3.0. I was even sadder to find that, although the OLED and software will work @ 5V, it will cowardly refuse to light the engine and make heat. I was even sadder to…
