Philipp Leitner

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http://icet-lab.eu

Associate Professor of Cloud-Based Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.

Broadly interested in Internet systems and software performance.

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I worked with my PhD students in my research lab to formalise our approach to publications:

https://www.icet-lab.eu/assets/pdf/icet_publication_strategy_v1.pdf

@mekkaokereke @joakimfors
The work hustle culture in the US is massively harmful to men's mental health, not to mention their ability to do effective parenting. Are we fixing this? No, we are just subjecting women to the same toxic culture.

If you didn't have One Big Diagram in your proposal, and now you're working on your dissertation, it's not too late to add one!

Your One Big Diagram might be hypothetical. Maybe your dissertation is a staple job, and there was never one single artifact that incorporates all the pieces. That's okay -- you can probably still do One Big Diagram. Telling a story about how the pieces *might* fit together -- even if it's fiction -- will help people understand what the pieces *are*.

I've said this often: the discourse around smartphones/social media for young people is 99% dictated by 'concerned parents' agreeing with other 'concerned parents' about how their 'concerns' are valid, and thus something must be done!

That's not how anything should work, but hey ho, I guess
2/15

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9gpdrx829o

You know what else I'd like to know is 'on the table'? Safeguards or exemptions for young people and teens who will be legitimately harmed by this move.
1/15

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' says UK government

The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regulator, Ofcom.

BBC News
So I'm also trying out Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/philippleitner.net). Any good ways to cross-post to both platforms?
philippleitner.net

Bluesky Social

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences.

The network is reliable
Latency is zero
Bandwidth is infinite
The network is secure
Topology doesn't change
There is one administrator
Transport cost is zero
The network is homogeneous

— Peter Deutsch

RIP, Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC. (My first programming language was WATFIV)....https://wapo.st/40V1KR5
Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC computer language, dies at 96

His programming language replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive commands, translating the exhilarating power of computer science.

Washington Post

An overweight president with his overweight billionaire patron and his cocaine abusing son are eating McDonald’s with the new health minister of the United States.

#RoleModels

This week I visited my old group at the University of Zurich, followed by a weekend trip to Lugano (in best company).