09 Sep 23
description: When you deploy a service into production, you need to configure it with enough resources (e.g., CPU, memory) so that it can handle the volume of requests you expect it to receive. You’ll want to provision it so that it can service 100% of the requests when receiving the typical amount of traffic, and you…
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description: Read For Free, Anywhere, Anytime. An online library of over 1000 classic short stories. H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter.
description: Presenting Without Comment In the Vatican Museums, alongside myriad sculptures of gods, emperors, and scholars, stands this old fisherman. His singular presence among these great figures places this…
description: An ongoing personal project, I envision some of my favorite films as vintage books. Not a best of list, just movies I love. These illustrations are available in a self-published book for sale here . Individual prints can be purchased here .
08 Sep 23
description: pico.sh has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
description: My latest in Inside Story Fears about the impact of increasing longevity haven’t aged well John Quiggin 4 September 2023 1690 words Wrong assumption: treasurer Jim Chalmers launching this year’s Intergenerational Report at the National Press Club of Australia last month. Lukas Coch/AAP Image Share “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”…
description: A look at lightweight backpacking concepts for couples. More so than solo, lightweight backpacking as a couple means the overall system. Some thoughts. Updated Sept 2023.
description: It’s getting rarer to find books that blow my mind, but this one did: Ancient Africa: A global History, to 300 CE, by Christopher Ehret. I wish I’d had it when writing the Middle East Construction Kit. (Ehret’s book came out this year.) Ehret’s thesis is that Africa is far more central in world history…
07 Sep 23
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description: Statistics and anecdotes about PHP at scale.