Magical animated Rick Astley QR code.

Read this post today on Kottke, which is mostly commentary around this twitter thread.

One quote toward the end stood out:

The idea that we can live with Covid WITHOUT any mitigation measures and expect things to turn out ok (both for individuals and as a society) is a lie.

The thing is, we have the best mitigation measure we can get: vaccines. It isn't going to get better than this, and human beings have already stretched themselves as far as is possible with quarantines and the like.

SARS-Cov-2 is here to stay. Get vaccinated, and get back to life.

Another great Twitter thread, this one about how Hall Thrusters work.

This is an absolutely magnificent thread by Yishan Wong on the challenges faced by anyone who wants to run a large social platform of any kind (or wants to pass regulation).

Bottom line: the Problem is Human Nature.

The smallest Docker image to serve static websites | Florin Lipan lipanski.com

lipanski.com https://lipanski.com/posts/smallest-docker-image-static-website

Posts like this really make me think containers are The Way, but there're still so many limitations around tooling and experience. I'm looking forward to the day when that's all in the past.

Been working near/with Terraform at work lately, and while I understand what it's doing in the end, I still haven't wrapped my head around how it gets that done.

Interview with Senior JS Developer in 2022

Watch On YouTube

I can't stop laughing.

Globally, humpback whales have recovered to about 70 percent of their pre-whaling population size

nautil.us https://nautil.us/the-portentous-comeback-of-humpback-whales-15745/

I had no idea they had recovered anywhere close to this much.

Weather Line, the best weather app for iOS by far, is now a week out from shutting down.

I've tried a bunch of other weather apps and widgets since the announcement, and while there are a lot of good ones out there, I've found nothing as good as Weather Line, which has been perfect for me.

Really cool visualization (and auralization - is that a thing?) of the more than 5,000 explanets that have been discovered to date.

5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery

Currently reading: The Warden And The Wolf King by Andrew Peterson 📚