What I learned getting acquired by Google

Working at Google is like having a second passport. Go to any major city in the world and your badge2 unlocks a beautiful office with great food, desks, and a high speed link to every person in Google’s 200,000+ person network. And like visiting America as a foreigner, everything you see inside feels oddly familiar […]

Interesting ideas in Observable Framework

Any Markdown code block tagged js will be executed as JavaScript in the user’s browser. This is an incredibly powerful abstraction—anything you can do in JavaScript (which these days is effectively anything at all) can now be seamlessly integrated into your document. Source: Interesting ideas in Observable Framework

How I keep myself Alive using Golang

As an incident commander, you are empowered and encouraged to pull anyone in from anywhere in the company to resolve the incident as quickly as possible. By resolve, I mean remove customer impact which means you must identify, triage, fix/put a short term band aid on and identify and record long term actions. We then […]

CrowdStrike’s Impact on Aviation – heavymeta.org

Overnight, about 8.5 million computers blue screened, affecting hospitals, banks, 911 systems–as the New York Times put it, “It is more apt to ask what was not affected.” The answer is Linux, Macs, and phones. Source: CrowdStrike’s Impact on Aviation – heavymeta.org