Mastodawn

Harrison Page Jan 18, 2024

This is what I work on!

https://slack.engineering/the-scary-thing-about-automating-deploys/

The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys - Engineering at Slack

Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big – hundreds of developers create hundreds of changes every week. Deploying at this scale is a unique challenge. When people talk about continuous deployment, they’re often thinking about deploying to systems as soon as changes are ready. They talk about microservices…

Engineering at Slack

Harrison Page Dec 20, 2023

Stamps Dec 19, 2023

Denmark #stamps

Harrison Page Dec 17, 2023

Jerome G Dec 12, 2023

Long-billed curlew portrait

Harrison Page Nov 24, 2023

Hacker News 200 points Nov 24, 2023

The secret language of ships: https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/the-secret-language-of-ships/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378555

The Secret Language of Ships | Hakai Magazine

Signs and symbols on the sides of ships tell stories about an industry few outsiders understand.

Hakai Magazine

Harrison Page Nov 11, 2023

kira :3 Oct 3, 2023

getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere

Harrison Page Sep 23, 2023

Hello from Vancouver to all my Canadian friends 🇨🇦

Harrison Page Sep 18, 2023

Stamps Sep 18, 2023

United States of America 3 February 2010 #stamps

Harrison Page Sep 18, 2023

Mushifoot Sep 18, 2023

I'm appalled at the lack of airlock safety in sci fi.

Harrison Page Sep 14, 2023

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user

"Marl’s tolerance for user interface complexity is zero. As far as you can tell he only has one working thumb, and the only thing that thumb can do is flick upwards in a repetitive, zombielike scrolling motion.”

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

Nothing Human

Harrison Page Sep 10, 2023

Coffee in a Can https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/coffee-in-a-can/

Coffee in a Can

Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every street in Japan.

One from Nippon

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