Newsletter - October 5th 2024

My newsletters are a handful of articles I’ve read that I think are interesting enough to share. Enjoy!

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People - NSA

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7ZHpKuqZg

In this two-part lecture from 1982, the original gangster of software, Grace Hopper, schools the present day from the 1980s. An essential watch.

Notes on building event-driven systems - Redowan Delowar

https://rednafi.com/misc/notes_on_event_driven_systems/

A great explainer of the concepts and patterns of event-driven systems.

Contempt Culture - Aurynn Shaw

https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/

This post popped up again recently and it’s always worth a read.

My Eulogy for the Open Web and Old Google - Chris DiBona

https://cdibona.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-for-the-open-web-and-old

I still believe in the open web but it feels further away than ever in 2024.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Kevin Purdy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

It’s crazy to think that unlike the Mesopotamian cuniform tablets of 5000 years ago, the sum of 21st century knowledge will disappear 30 years after the last hard drive is manufactured.

Fucked Up Little Man - Grant Howitt

https://gshowitt.itch.io/fucked-up-little-man

Someone went and created an RPG based on Dark Souls merchants that live in sewers. heh heh heh heh.