Author of “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”, researcher at TU Munich, formerly University of Cambridge. Distributed systems, security protocols, databases. he/him.
Would you like to see something astonishing?
Recently, a friend gave me a gift that she had been working on for almost a year. It was initially a gift for my 40th, but it took longer to make than she anticipated (BIG UNDERSTATEMENT).
It is - I cannot stress this enough - the coolest and most incredible thing I have ever owned, and I am moved beyond words that someone would put the time in to create something this awesome. For me (!!!).
Here is the London Underground Map... in cross stitch.
@andrew There are some progress reports here: https://www.inkandswitch.com/beehive/notebook/ — code is not open source yet, but we’re working towards it
@chrisamaphone @j12t @natematias @andresmh @evan Sorry, only just saw this. We recently published a paper https://martin.kleppmann.com/2024/12/09/bluesky-at-protocol.html and it references a few things on the fediverse. I co-organised a summer school last summer that discussed decentralised social media. Some others:
https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu and https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/index.php — Otherwise I’m not aware of much, but I’m not really plugged in to this research scene.
Tiny Lego Computers :lego:
James Brown, a WETA Workshop engineer, created some itty-bitty LEGO computer displays that actually display stuff. What it takes to build a tiny Lego computer...
He has a :mastodon: account btw
https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/20/23308217/lego-brick-computer-james-brown
Leslie Lamport's new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" has been sent to the publisher and the final draft is available for free as a PDF!
Let's just say that there are more occurrences of "bro" in this one 65-minute conversation than in all of the hundreds of hours of recordings of my lectures that have ever been made.
@VaughnVernon @criccomini That's a fair point, but my concern about giving advice is that it's always predicated on assumptions about what kind of problems the reader has. It's possible to give advice for a particular niche, but for another niche that advice may be useless or indeed counter-productive. I want the book to be useful to a broad audience, and therefore it aims to help readers ask the right questions, not giving them pre-packaged answers. Other books may focus more on a niche.
@lindsey @sliminality @raph @akiva @geoffreylitt Sorry, only just saw this. You mean slides in the PowerPoint sense? You should be able to do that with a JSON CRDT like Automerge. We’ve done vector graphics before and it works fine. Also you still need a text CRDT for the contents of your text boxes. Happy to have a chat, or join the Automerge Discord (https://discord.gg/zKGe4DCfgR) where people will be happy to help you
@rntz I didn’t think there was such a thing as too much Porcupine Tree
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The latest Ink & Switch Dispatch features some projects dear to my heart: collaboration for research papers, and local-first access control for end-to-end encryption https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-006/
@samstokes @criccomini Yes, I'm lucky that I get to work with Chris again! 🙌
@craigtp @jawnsy @criccomini In the first few chapters, a lot of text has been rewritten to better explain the ideas, so a simple text diff would not be very useful. But I guess we could make a list of sections where substantive updates have happened.
@dbsmasher @criccomini @brad I've wanted to do a second edition for years but it never got high enough on my to-do list. Excited that it's finally happening!
Big news: I'm working with @criccomini on a second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications! An early release of the first 3 chapters is now available: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781098119058/ (O'Reilly Learning subscribers only at this point) and we're hoping to finish it next year.
The overall structure and philosophy remains unchanged, but we're bringing it up-to-date with new technical developments, and polishing the presentation with things we've learnt since I wrote the first edition a decade ago.
Only skimmed this report on fediverse governance so far, but it looks like an excellent resource for anyone wanting to understand decentralised social media https://fediverse-governance.github.io/images/fediverse-governance.pdf
@ltsiros Great, hope the book club goes well! Yeah I guess we'll update that example in the second edition, if only because it's now a bit dated 😅
I wrote a blog post about what it is like being #womenintech within the framework of #moralphilosophy and ethics. #consistencyforthewin https://irenezhang.net/blog/2024/07/24/misogyny.html
