AWS re:Invent 2020 - Developer Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels - YouTube
Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Wikipedia
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
AI/ML applied: Amazon QuickSight Q
Amazon QuickSight Q - Business Intelligence Service - Amazon Web Services
Amazon QuickSight Q is a machine learning powered capability that uses natural language processing to answer your business questions instantly, saving weeks of effort from BI teams having to build pre-defined data models and dashboards.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
AI/ML: Amazon CodeGuru + DevOps Guru
Amazon CodeGuru - Amazon Web Services
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool that provides intelligent recommendations to improve your code quality and identify an application’s most expensive lines of code. Integrate CodeGuru into your existing software development workflow to automate code reviews during application development, continuously monitor application performance in production, provide recommendations and visual clues for improving code quality and application performance, and reduce overall cost.Monday, December 28, 2020
fast.ai with Swift
Practical Deep Learning for Coders | Practical Deep Learning for Coders
fast.ai Embracing Swift for Deep Learning · fast.ai
interviews
The story of Fast.ai & why Python is not the future of ML with Jeremy Howard - YouTube
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35 - YouTube
Practical Deep Learning for Coders - Full Course from fast.ai and Jeremy Howard - YouTube
fast.ai @GitHub
fastai/fastbook: The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks
Sunday, December 27, 2020
web tools: preact, lit-html, svelte, stencil vs react, angular
while web components are being standardized and implemented in all modern browsers
web development is still done with many JavaScript/TypeScript tools
those tool chains are getting quite complex, and resulting web apps quite large.
and while there are many and changing options for js/web tools, React is still dominant
What is Preact and when should you consider using it?
Preact | Preact: Fast 3kb React alternative with the same ES6 API. Components & Virtual DOM.
preactjs/preact: ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM. @GitHub
Front-end Frameworks Breaking the Mold in 2020 | Toptal®
lit html vs preact vs @stencil/core vs svelte | npm trends
svelte vs react vs @angular/core vs preact | npm trends
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Boom Supersonic with AWS
Boom Supersonic all-in on Amazon AWS for aircraft design, development
Boom says AWS will power the design, development and manufacturing of its next-generation supersonic jet Overture.
The First Look at Boom’s Supersonic Plane - YouTube
AWS re:Invent 2020 - Keynote with Andy Jassy - YouTube
Friday, December 25, 2020
AWS Glue Elastic Views
AWS Glue Features – AWS Glue Elastic Views – Amazon Web Services
AWS Glue Elastic Views makes it easy to build materialized views that combine and replicate data across multiple data stores without you having to write custom code.New applications and features often require you to combine data that resides across multiple data stores, including relational and non-relational databases. Accessing, combining, replicating, and keeping this data up-to-date requires manual work and custom code that can take months of development time.
With AWS Glue Elastic Views, you can use familiar Structured Query Language (SQL) to quickly create a virtual table—a materialized view—from multiple different source data stores. AWS Glue Elastic Views copies data from each source data store and creates a replica in a target data store. AWS Glue Elastic Views continuously monitors for changes to data in your source data stores and provides updates to the materialized views in your target data stores automatically, ensuring data accessed through the materialized view is always up-to-date.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
AWS Babelfish for PostgreSQL: Translating T-SQL from SQL Server: open source
Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish | AWS Open Source Blog
Babelfish for PostgreSQL is an Apache-2.0 open source project that adds a Microsoft SQL Server-compatible end-point to PostgreSQL to enable your PostgreSQL database to understand the SQL Server wire protocol and commonly used SQL Server commands. With Babelfish, applications that were originally built for SQL Server can work directly with PostgreSQL, with little to no code changes, and without changing database drivers.
Babelfish for PostgreSQL will be available on Github in 2021.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
AWS Proton
AWS Proton | Fully Managed Application Deployment Service | Amazon Web Services
Automated management for container and serverless deploymentsAmazon Web Services Announces AWS Proton
Maintaining hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of microservices with constantly changing infrastructure resources and CI/CD configurations is a nearly impossible task for even the most capable platform teams. AWS Proton solves this by giving platform teams the tools needed to manage this complexity, while accelerating the development process.AWS Proton enables platform teams to give developers an easy way to deploy their code using containers and serverless technologies, using the management tools, governance, and visibility needed to provide consistent standards and best practices.
What is AWS Proton - AWS Proton
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Postman += AsyncAPI
Open source tools to easily build and maintain your event-driven architecture. All powered by the AsyncAPI specification, the industry standard for defining asynchronous APIs.
AWS Lambda + Containers!
AWS Lambda now supports container images as a packaging format
You can now package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as a container image of up to 10 GB. This makes it easy to build Lambda based applications using familiar container tooling, workflows, and dependencies. Just like functions packaged as ZIP archives, functions deployed as container images will benefit from AWS Lambda’s operational simplicity, automatic scaling with sub-second startup times, high availability, and native integrations with 140 AWS services. Customers can start building functions as container images by using either a set of AWS base images for Lambda, or by using one of their preferred community or enterprise images.
Create a Lambda function with the console - AWS Lambda
announced at:
Monday, December 21, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Saturday, December 19, 2020
tool: pm2: process manager for node.js
PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks.
npm install pm2 -g
pm2 start app.js
nodemon.io
PM2 is by far the most comprehensive and tends to be best suited for production concerns.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Make A Programming Language "Eldiro", in Rust
Make A Language · arzg’s website
A series about making a programming language called Eldiro using the Rust programming language.Rust Playlists @ Oreilly
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
AWS += 29M users?
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud - WSJ
New Amazon program aims to train 29M people in cloud computing by 2025 - SiliconANGLE
The idea behind the program is to reskill people to be able to find jobs in the information age in which cloud computing, The program includes free training support for those looking to prepare for entry-level support positions and for existing engineers looking to broader their enterprise skills in areas such as machine learning or cybersecurity.
Amazon to help 29 million people grow their tech skills with free cloud skills training
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Oracle HQ moves to TX, too
Oracle is headed to Texas now, too | TechCrunch
"Just days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed during an interview that he has moved to Texas, and less than two weeks after HP Enterprise, a spin-out of the iconic Silicon Valley company Hewlett-Packard, announced that it is separately moving to Texas, yet another of the Bay Area’s best-known brands — Oracle — is pulling up stakes and headed east to Texas, too."
"Just days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed during an interview that he has moved to Texas, and less than two weeks after HP Enterprise, a spin-out of the iconic Silicon Valley company Hewlett-Packard, announced that it is separately moving to Texas, yet another of the Bay Area’s best-known brands — Oracle — is pulling up stakes and headed east to Texas, too."
Monday, December 14, 2020
Running Python on .NET 5
Pyjion is a project to replace the core execution loop of CPython by transpiling CPython bytecode to ECMA CIL and then using the .NET 5 CLR to compile that into machine code. It then executes the machine-code compiled JIT frames at runtime instead of using the native execution loop of CPython.
Episode #209 JITing Python with .NET, no irons in sight - [Python Bytes Podcast]
I’m wondering if they still asked you to submit a resume/cv
Yes they did, and I got interviewed by Kevin Scott and Anders Hejlsberg (and others). How cool is that. :-) (They also asked for my diploma from University?!)
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Friday, December 11, 2020
Play with Go: free web tutorials, running in containers
Play with Go featuring Paul Jolly and Marcos Nils (Go Time #158) |> Changelog
Play with Go is a set of hands-on, interactive tutorials for learning the tools used while programming in Go.Play with Go - The live site running Play with Go
Play with Go on Github - The open source repository and source code.
Play with Go on Twitter
Play with Docker - The project that Play with Go was based on.
play-with-go/preguide - A validation tool used in Play with Go.
CUE - Syntax language similar to JSON used in Play with Go. Built with Go.
Using Go Modules - A blog article mentioned in the show as having issues due to repositories changing.
Gitea - An open source, self-hosted Git service used in Play with Go.
gio - A Go GUI library mentioned in the show.
Jonathan Leibiusky - Helped create Play with Docker.
SIV is Unsound - An article mentioned during the unpopular opinion segment about semantic versioning.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Elon Musk: German interview, move to Texas
excellent interview, in Germany
Elon Musk: AxelSpringer Award Talk with Questions from other CEOs - 1.12.2020 - YouTube
Tesla CEO Elon Musk plans to move to Texas, friends and associates say
0% state tax helps...
Monday, December 07, 2020
Mac Mini @ AWS EC2
StatusCode Weekly Issue 295: December 2, 2020
"AWS Unveils Mac-Powered EC2 Instances — Exciting news because the big clouds have kept away from macOS so far, but.. for good reason. These are ultimately very expensive ($1.21/hr on demand) and restricted (the minimum time you can use one is 24 hours – more on why here). If you’re heavily into AWS, though, and want to wrap macOS-based CI/CD into your monthly bill, now there’s a way."it would pay off in less than a month to purchase instead of this "lease"...
Sunday, December 06, 2020
AWS ECS Anywhere
Amazon ECS Anywhere Demo - YouTube
from re:invent 2020
This demo shows how to run an application in an AWS Region as well as on an arbitrary customer-managed infrastructure (in this case, two Raspberry Pis!).AWS announced the GA of Amazon ECS Anywhere earlier this year followed by an announcement of GA of Amazon EKS Anywhere more recently. Existing InfoQ coverage, on ECS and EKS, provides more details regarding the respective announcements and explore how they are aimed primarily at simplifying on-premises containers orchestration.
Saturday, December 05, 2020
React without npm, Babel, webpack
React without npm, Babel, or webpack | by Chris Lewis | Medium
React without JSX and Webpack @academind
mlmorg/react-hyperscript: Hyperscript syntax for React.js markup @GitHub
Running JSX in your browser without Babel - DEV
preact
Introduction to Preact : A smaller, faster React alternative - LogRocket Blog
AWS Lambda: 1ms billing, max 10 GB RAM
StatusCode Weekly Issue 295: December 2, 2020
AWS Lambda, the serverless platform, scales up to 10GB of memory and 6 vCPUs now and the minimum billing increment is now 1 millisecond (down from 100) which means huge savings for efficient functions. Lambda can also now support containers.
Friday, December 04, 2020
AWS Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS goes after Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL | TechCrunch
AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud. The new service is Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. The tagline AWS CEO Andy Jassy used for this service in his re:Invent keynote today is probably telling: “Stop paying for SQL Server licenses you don’t need.” And to show how serious it is about this, the company is even open-sourcing the tool.What Babelfish does is provide a translation layer for SQL Server’s proprietary SQL dialect (T-SQL) and communications protocol so that businesses can switch to AWS’ Aurora relational database at will (though they’ll still have to migrate their existing data). It provides translations for the dialect, but also SQL commands, cursors, catalog views, data types, triggers, stored procedures and functions.
The promise here is that companies won’t have to replace their database drivers or rewrite and verify their database requests to make this transition.
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Salesforce += Slack - $27.7B
Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7 billion in cloud company's largest deal
We need to rebuild to be successful for the digital future: Salesforce CEO - YouTube
Salesforce CEO praises former boss Larry Ellison for TikTok deal - YouTube
Salesforce Blows By SAP & Oracle; Cloud Top 10 Market Cap Hits $5.66T
Marc Benioff: Slack is one step in Salesforce's path to double revenue
Monday, November 30, 2020
Material Design Icons Font
Material Icons Guide - Google Design
<i class="material-icons">face</i>
google/material-design-lite: Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS
Material Design Lite (MDL) lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. It doesn't rely on any JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Optimized for cross-device use, gracefully degrades in older browsers, and offers an experience that is accessible from the get-go.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
kOps: k8s deployment tool
Installing Kubernetes with kops | Kubernetes
Installing and launching a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, GCE, DigitalOcean or OpenStack
AWS outage
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Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet - The Verge
Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services.AWS Service Health Dashboard - Nov 25, 2020 PST
https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/kinesis-us-east-1.rss
Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
openbase.io: a catalog of open source projects
Openbase: choose the right package every time
podcast interview with this startup founder
OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman - Software Engineering Daily
Team Size: 5
Location: San Francisco
not to be confused with OpenBase.com
example: JS ORMs
typeorm: Docs, Tutorials, Reviews | Openbase
typeorm: Alternatives | Openbase
sequelize: Docs, Tutorials, Reviews | Openbase
sequelize: Alternatives | Openbase
knex: Docs, Tutorials, Reviews | Openbase
A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.NPMCompare.com - Comparing knex vs. orm vs. sequelize vs. typeorm
Monday, November 23, 2020
ksqlDB: Kafka + SQL
very informative podcast about data streaming databases
Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB : Software Engineering Radio
similar solution from AWS
Sunday, November 22, 2020
S&P += TSLA ($$$)
Tesla Is Joining the S&P 500. Here’s What That Means For You – Forbes Advisor
Here's how Tesla's S&P 500 inclusion may play out - MarketWatch
Tesla to join S&P 500, stock surges - MarketWatch
Why Tesla was added to the S&P 500 and what it could mean for investors - YouTube
Tesla's S&P 500 entry could spark a $8 billion buying spree, Goldman Sachs says | Markets Insider
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Friday, November 20, 2020
Thursday, November 19, 2020
microSD cards are computers, not just memory
Industrial microSD Cards - Micron | Mouser
Micron Industrial microSD Cards are specifically designed for Internet Protocol (IP) video surveillance cameras. These microSD cards offer edge storage technology for surveillance cameras. The edge storage technology records video and stores data within the camera module which results in enhancing the system performance. These industrial microSD cards feature optimized firmware that provides balanced performance for 24x7 high-quality video recording with minimal frame drops.
- 32GB to 1TB storage capacities
- U1, A1, class 10 performance
- 2.7V to 3.6V operating voltage range
- 2 million hours MTTF
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Ergonomic Office Chairs
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
web "variable fonts"
Introduction to variable fonts on the web
A typeface is the underlying visual design that can exist in many different typesetting technologies, and a font is one of these implementations, in a digital file format. In other words, a typeface is what you see, and the font is what you use.
A style is a single and specific typeface, such as Bold Italic, and a family is the complete set of styles.
Before variable fonts, each style was implemented as a separate font file.
With variable fonts, all styles can be contained in a single file.
Monday, November 16, 2020
EV: Hyundai S-A1 "flying taxi" + Uber
The flying car is here – and it could change the world - BBC Future
The Hyundai S-A1, which has been designed for Uber Elevate’s urban air travel service, is displayed in January 2020 (Credit: Robyn Beck/Getty)
Hyundai S-A1 Air Taxi first look at CES 2020 - YouTube
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Udemy: $2B
In February 2020, Udemy raised $50 million from long-time partner in Japan, Benesse Holdings, Inc. and announced $2 billion valuation. [20]
"Udemy uses Brightcove video encoding service, and AWS (Amazon Web Services) for actual storage.
Udemy uses the Zencoder encoding service in conjunction with and Amazon’s S3 storage service to rapidly scale encoding and storage, allowing them to effectively manage video processing loads as the company has grown."
Does udemy host all its videos? Does that not take up huge space and is that not expensive? - Quora
"Udemy uses Brightcove video encoding service, and AWS (Amazon Web Services) for actual storage.
Udemy uses the Zencoder encoding service in conjunction with and Amazon’s S3 storage service to rapidly scale encoding and storage, allowing them to effectively manage video processing loads as the company has grown."
also available from libraries
Saturday, November 14, 2020
cloud "wars": Salesforce, Oracle, AWS
Did AWS Just Win the Cloud Deal of the Century?!
Salesforce is running on Oracle DB
Oracle now wants to complete with Salesforce.
Amazon.com has moved from Oracle DB to AWS Dynamo DB.
Could Salesforce do the same?
maybe not...
Oracle’s trillion-dollar secret: Autonomous Salesforce | LinkedIn
Salesforce's Keith Block could join these three companies: RBC
migrated 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
EV: Ford E-Transit van (2022)
Ford makes big EV push with new E-Transit van (NYSE:F) | Seeking Alpha
Ford (NYSE:F) officially introduces the 2022 E-Transit all-electric cargo van, which will list for under $45K.
AWS ALB: HTTP/2 and gRPC
New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News Blog
gRPC is a popular choice for microservice integrations and client-server communications. gRPC is a high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework using HTTP/2 for transport and Protocol Buffers to describe the interface.
To make it easier to use gRPC with your applications, Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports HTTP/2 end-to-end, enabling you to publish gRPC services alongside non-gRPC services via a single load balancer. You can use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances or IP addresses (for example with AWS Fargate) as gRPC targets, with support for gRPC health checks for the target groups. In this way, you can use ALBs to terminate, route and load balance the gRPC traffic between your microservices or between gRPC-enabled clients and services.Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Salesforce Lightning Web Components
metadata-driven web components, open source from Salesforce
Introducing Lightning Web Components - Salesforce Lightning Component Library
very informative podcast interview
Salesforce Developers with Chuck Liddell - Software Engineering Daily
salesforce/lwc: LWC - A Blazing Fast, Enterprise-Grade Web Components Foundation @GitHub
WICG/webcomponents: Web Components specifications
Apple’s Arm-based M1 Macs
Apple’s Arm-based M1 Mac event in 10 minutes - YouTube
Apple M1 Chip - Apple
16 billion transistors
5‑nanometer process
Apple M1 Chip - Apple
16 billion transistors
5‑nanometer process
Apple A14 - Wikipedia
It started here
Intel 8088 - Wikipedia
Launched 1979
Transistors 29,000
Min. feature size 3 µm = 3000 nm
Windows with ARM based CPU
Surface Pro X – Ultra-thin & Always Connected 2-in-1 Laptop – Microsoft Surface
It started here
Intel 8088 - Wikipedia
Launched 1979
Transistors 29,000
Min. feature size 3 µm = 3000 nm
Windows with ARM based CPU
Surface Pro X – Ultra-thin & Always Connected 2-in-1 Laptop – Microsoft Surface
AWS ARM based CPU
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News Blog
AWS Nitro Enclaves. You can use this to carve out an isolated environment on any EC2 instance that is powered by the Nitro System. The Nitro System already isolates multiple EC2 instances that are running on the same hardware. Nitro Enclaves provides additional isolation by partitioning the CPU and memory of a single “parent” EC2 instance, and protects highly sensitive data against other users or applications that are running on the same instance.
Monday, November 09, 2020
AWS Backup
AWS Backup | Centralized Cloud Backup
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
Sunday, November 08, 2020
Raspberry Pi 400: $70 PC
Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC - Raspberry Pi
Classic home computers – BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Commodore Amigas, and the rest – integrated the motherboard directly into the keyboard. No separate system unit and case; no keyboard cable. Just a computer, a power supply, a monitor cable, and (sometimes) a mouse.
Saturday, November 07, 2020
Friday, November 06, 2020
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
Tuesday, November 03, 2020
Node + TypeScript <=> OpenAPI
lukeautry/tsoa: Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node
Creates OpenAPI docs and provides free runtime validation for your Koa, Express, Hapi (and more) servicesUse Swagger to generate API client in Frontend | by Suraj KC | Medium
Monday, November 02, 2020
SpaceX Starlink internet service
Starlink testers will pay $99 per month for SpaceX's satellite internet | Engadget
SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellite will cost early beta testers $99 a month, not including the $499 upfront cost for the hardware kit needed to access the network.
Speeds will vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several months, it warns, and there will even be brief periods with no connectivity at all. The apps will help users identify the best install location for the Starlink receiver dish and will help check for obstructions that can interfere with service. They will also have instructions on how to install Starlink hardware, can do speed tests and can connect subscribers with customer service.
SpaceX's Starlink to Supply Free Satellite Internet to Families in Texas School District | PCMag
Sunday, November 01, 2020
Saturday, October 31, 2020
LED lightbulbs in "classic" packaging
Sylvania LED A19 Reduced Eye Strain Light Bulb, 60W, Dim, SW, 4 Pack - Walmart.com - Walmart.com
What Happened To The 100,000-Hour LED Bulbs? | Hackaday
One in the middle looks just like "classic" inconsistent lightbulb, and is as light as one. Fake?
apparently may not be fake... just optimized for less material used
Friday, October 30, 2020
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.
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