I have a theory that dappled light is a kind of nervous-system-calmer - like white noise for the body.

#YorkshireDales #nature #trees

The astonishing mimicry and hidden beauty of the Indian Leaf Butterfly (Kallima paralekta). Their wings allow them to mimic a dead leaf when closed, helping them hide from predators.

Video credit: _melissa_yung_/ig

I wonder what practices that are considered reasonable or at least common and defensible today will be considered moribund and obsolete in a decade and what extreme minority practices today will be widespread in a decade.

We've seen quite a few practices come and go. A lot of people will say it's all basically fads, e.g., as when Alan Kay derisively says "programming is a pop culture" but, IMO, that's pretty obviously untrue and it's easy to name sweeping changes that are massive improvements.

One of the supposed “advantages” of async work has been that you can start working on something without needing others to be available.
Reasonable leverage point, but wrong direction.

Being able to start the work without others (that are needed in the process) means that the cost of starting new work goes to zero.

That tilts the system towards a higher arrival rate – the amount of work being pulled into the system of work – and that means the work in process and inventory shoots up.

The problem with tech is that there’s too much expectation that it should be sexy. All the bits we rely on - hardware, OS’s, core libs - are at their best when they’re as boring as the beige boxes PCs used to come in.

This stuff should be dull, it should just work exactly as you’d think and no user should give even a second’s thought to it. It shouldn’t be exciting, and it definitely shouldn’t warrant a CEO getting on a big stage fishing for breathless gasps.

Make Tech Boring Again

Perhaps in like a century when UTC has drifted too far from terrestrial time and needs a correction, but all our computing systems have long ago lost whatever ability they once had to cope with leap seconds, perhaps there will be a simple answer.

A once-a-century global computing holiday.

Just turn off all the computers for a day. It'll be fine. It'll be great.

How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database

https://dylibso.com/blog/wasm-udf/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://dylibso.com/blog/wasm-udf/

#programming #webassembly

Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.