March 2022 Links
Culture
- 100 years of whatever this will be with a thoughtful call for better regulatory foundations.
- With that last one being a bit heavy, Underrated reasons to be thankful is actually quite uplifting.
- An article on the phones of the Ukrainian President, which has all kinds of links to historical nation state networks. Was interesting to re-read about DSN and DRSN
- Maybe you should do less “work” (Hn discussion), which lead to reading about slack and expanding premium mediocrity. There was also a good link to an article about learning at work.
- Horrible edge cases when dealing with music (metadata), explored from a contributor to navidrome. Points to musicbrainz schema. Related to music exploration wishlist.
- Metabrainz is a well organized entity with several impacting projects. Their social contract and conflict resolution policy are excellent reads.
- Hn discussion on what books changed your life, as well as many previous discussions linked within.
Technology
- Discussion on what platforms people use for technical writing. Was interesting to see Joplin and mdBook used together.
- Chris Siebenmann posted some thoughtful writings on how Running Servers and Services is not trivial as well as On Premise versus Off Premise environments. There is also a much older but extremely meaningful write up on University Staff Peculiarities specific to how resource allocation is handled when there isn’t an overall market pressure.
- Userspace wireguard client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy with Hn discussion of several other similar projects.
- agones is a library for hosting, running, and scaling game servers on kubernetes.
- Kubernetes Comic?
- Reticulum Network Stack is an overlay network with no central authority that runs in userspace, upstream repository.
- How we secure Monzo’s Banking Platform with Hn Discussion talks about workload trust and ratcheting from low trust in early deployment. There was also a blog post about network isolation of their services.
- Run GUI Applications within Docker Containers, with a project for doing some scaffolding around this concept with podman.
- Tailscale has an excellent write up on NAT Traversal.
- systemd by example is an excellent enhanced resource to the man pages.
- Distributed tcpdump for cloud native environments, which led me to stumble on threatmapper.
- A NUC style form factor that supports a external PCIe card.
- Use Git tactically explaining how to stage work both for yourself from a mental safety standpoint and for your collaborators.
- Location sharing and persistence without using Google or Apple via OwnTracks.
Analysis
- Web native books on Modern Statistics and Statistics with Randomization and Simulation.
- Visual debugging for eBPF and Hn Discussion.
- OpenBB is an Open Source Terminal that facilitates investment research. Hn Discussion.
Travel
Gotta shake those quarantine vibes and book a trip!