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No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
Let's avoid the advertising distopia. What even is advertising, or distopia or indeed let's and avoid for the matter. Such is the importance of all this, but we probably shouldn't worry about it too much because guess what, that's a distopia too. Oh noes! We're all gonna die! :) #

In the world of B2B social listening, many companies make a critical mistake: they track the Topic, not the Pain. If you sell a CRM, tracking “Customer Relationship Management” is a discussion. Tracking a specific point of friction, like a competitor’s high price or a missing feature, is a wallet-opening moment. Your goal is to […]

A few months ago, Dream Prompter launched as a GIMP plugin for AI-powered image generation and editing, supporting just one model: Google’s Nano Banana. Version 1.2.0 brings the total to nine. Here’s what changed and how it all came together.

Welcome back to the Advent of Enterprise Integration Patterns! Yesterday we got our hands dirty with Point-to-Point Channels and Competing Consumers, building the bones of Chronicle using OTP actors. We can send audit events and have them processed reliably by multiple consumers racing to grab work. Pretty cool! But here’s the thing: that implementation is tightly coupled to OTP. What happens when we want to deploy Chronicle across multiple..



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The Eternal - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
It's been kind of a strange week, and particularly today. As I sat down exhausted earlier, following a long long journey of one synchronicity after another, I started listening to some Sonic Youth. I haven't been listening to much music at all recently, but back in the 90s I used to listen to them a lot. Not sure I've listened to them all that much since that time. It was those years right at the end of school, and the first few in universi....

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - kor

The most dangerous number in cybersecurity is a perfect score. Why 'Green' often means you aren't looking hard enough, and how to design incentives for reality.

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
It literally never ends, the literal next moment after the last note, and the world added another little extra bit on top. Literally literally literally. Literally. It's pointless asking for a stop, because that means more. Everything means more. #

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
It literally never ends, the literal next moment after the last note, and the world added another little extra bit on top. Literally literally literally. Literally. It's pointless asking for a stop, because that means more. Everything means more. #

With recent updates of DuckDB itself, DuckDB Wasm and the Iceberg extension it is now possible to query Iceberg catalog directly from the browser, with no backends. involved. Ex...

With recent updates of DuckDB itself, DuckDB Wasm and the Iceberg extension it is now possible to query Iceberg catalog directly from the browser, with no backends. involved. Ex...

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
Destiny always seems to find a way to squeeze in one more more. I'm completely physically and mentally exhausted. #

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
Destiny always seems to find a way to squeeze in one more more. I'm completely physically and mentally exhausted. #

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng

I listened to this last summer, but it took me a long time to write something so here it is: the book talks about the first great financial crisis, the South Sea bubble. The actual full title is “Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made … Continue reading " Micro Review: Money for Nothing by Thomas Levenson " The post Micro Review: Mo..

A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
It's really quite unbelievable but the world would like things to be even more impossible. That appears to be it's answer to everything. Just add more impossible. #

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
It's really quite unbelievable but the world would like things to be even more impossible. That appears to be it's answer to everything. Just add more impossible. #

SwiftUI provides several tools for managing navigation, and the introduction of NavigationStack and value-destination links improved programmatic navigation. However, in larger applications, vanilla SwiftUI navigation can pose challenges for testability, maintainability, and modularity. Navigation logic is distributed across views, introducing coupling and making the navigation code hard to locate. These problems can be addressed by ... Re..

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
The world is on an epic allow blocking rampage at me today. It's hard to put into words. Perhaps I'll disappear into an acme hole. Feel like that would be the world's favorite option. Apparently I'm impossible. Well guess what world, if I'm impossible, then you're impossible too. #

No title - markjgsmith.com - 5 months ago - eng
The world is on an epic allow blocking rampage at me today. It's hard to put into words. Perhaps I'll disappear into an acme hole. Feel like that would be the world's favorite option. Apparently I'm impossible. Well guess what world, if I'm impossible, then you're impossible too. #

Hello! We're very glad to announce a special promotion on our long terms Premium plans. You can get prices as low as 2.20 €/month with a three years plan, which is a 68% discount when compared to monthly plan price of 7 €. You can also send an AirVPN plan as a gift: you have the option to print or send a colorful, dedicated picture with the code to activate the plan. You can do it in your account Client Area -> Your membership: Purchase ....

Yuptime - briansunter.com - 5 months ago - eng
A Kubernetes-native uptime monitor. Monitors are CRDs, state lives on the CRD's status subresource, and each check runs in its own throw-away Job pod.

Yuptime - briansunter.com - 5 months ago - eng
A Kubernetes-native uptime monitor. Monitors are CRDs, state lives on the CRD's status subresource, and each check runs in its own throw-away Job pod.

The rise of GenAI brings complex, non-deterministic security risks that traditional methods can't handle. Discover Evo by Snyk, the world's first agentic security orchestration system for AI-native defense.

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Assumed Audience : Hackers and professional software developers. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction Because of personal reasons , I have not been plugged into tech news for months. Imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I encounter as I briefly plug back in is about an outage in Cloudflare. Do read their postmortem . Well, people had opinions, and I have opinions on their opinions. And a solution to at..

Welcome to Day 1 of the Advent of Enterprise Integration Patterns! Today we tackle the foundational question every distributed system must answer: how do systems share information? Can someone just call me!? Chapter 2 of Enterprise Integration Patterns lays out four fundamental integration styles. Understanding these options and their trade-offs is essential before diving into the patterns themselves. Let’s examine each one, drawing from re..


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